Good morning!
My head goes spinning even after a quick search...
Everything started with
a simple desire to know the E-Ink version of my Kindle Paperwhite's display, which, as this website
claims, should have the older version, Pearl, instead of E-Ink Carta commonly used on e-readers nowadays.
So, I first checked
Device Info page on my Kindle. No success! So, now I wanted to know more about it, i.e.
which Paperwhite I use. It's not that I hadn't read the reviews and collected other info about the model before I actually bought it, yet the marketing tricks could easily mislead me. Anyways...
So, here's a list of clues I could collect so far from various sources (Amazon misses a lot) and the
contradictory conclusions I've come to regarding both the generation and E-Ink version of my device:
1. We couldn't befriend with Google...
2. The
serial number of my device starts with
B024. Conclusion: I have
Kindle PaperWhite WiFi (no generation info). E-Ink = Pearl?!
3. The version of the latest firmware installed on my device is
5.6.1.1. Conclusion: the model I have is not less than KP
(5th generation), since I've never used jailbreak or else for upgrades; that's the version of firmware Kindle downloaded itself - all previous Kindle devices use also previous versions of the firmware. E-Ink = Carta?!
4. I bought my device in
Feb 2013. Conclusion: I have KP
1st generation, not KP
2nd generation, since the latter was released
AFTER I bought mine. Also, I couldn't find info about the E-Ink version on the first wiki-page; only the second one reports about E-Ink Carta used on 2nd gen. KP devices (which I presumably don't own). E-Ink = Pearl?!
So, can you pls advise which Kindle Paperwhite generation and E-Ink version I use?
Thanks!
Rustam M. Alhas