Thread: Kindle 3 Large Screen out Wednesday?
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Old 05-05-2009, 03:47 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by sirbruce View Post
Most hardware companies do not announce new products months before they start selling them. Does Apple? Does your cell phone maker? Does Tivo?

The K2 was rumored for months before it was announced. The K-DX or whatever it's called was rumored for months before it was announced. But like I said before, most importantly, it's not a "better" version of the K2; it's a totally different form factor. We don't even know if it will have all the same functionality as the K2. What if it has no wireless and has 12 hour battery life?
Technically, the Kindle 3 (aka Text Book) has also been rumored for months, as was the 9.7" screen. Various delays on the e-Ink screen, just started shipping, supposedly in April. I kind of wondered, the Kindle 2, while nice, seemed a very mild kicker. May be that Amazon got hung up waiting for the screen supply to become sufficient.

As to the price point, we'll see that tomorrow, along with everything else. I can understand that people with a Kindle 2 would be maybe a little miffed, but that's just the march of progress. Buy anything digital, within 6 months they'll be something better, maybe 2-3 years what you have will be totally obsolete. I say this, having bought an original IBM PC, waiting 6 months for it to ship, and paying over $3k. And then being happy when the PC-XT shipped (also $3k, but a HARD DISK ), and then the PC-AT (Faster, bigger hard disk, better displays, etc.., also at $3k), and so on. All vastly inferior to the HP I bought off the shelf for <$1k last Christmas. It's just the way of these things. Unhappy with a 6" K2 when the 9.7" K3 comes out? Well, just wait until next year, when the screen sizes will go up to 13.x", or a bit later when the color screens are available, etc., and the 9.7" buyers will then be unhappy.

Be happy, bigger screens were an impediment, eBooks will start to take off even more now that it's been improved. Our interest, as eBook owners, should be in seeing more eBook reader sales, which will in turn mean more eBooks.
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