[FredUruncle]

Replacement Kindle 2 is "Different" .... has anyone else seen this?

I bought my Kindle 2 about 10 months ago. In general I was happy with it. Like many, the screen contrast was not what I would of liked but it was acceptable at the larger font sizes I needed anyway. Its behavior when you hit the next page was to invert the page you just read (black to white and vice versa) and then the new page appeared. I just accepted that.

However, a few days ago I downloaded and manually installed the 2.3 firmware update. Two things happened. The battery started going 3 quarter dead overnight and the beast hung off and on corrupting and losing some books.

So, I called Amazon and they quite quickly sent me an overnight replacement that was still at the 2.0.4 firmware level. As I loaded my content I noticed the following differences.... one good and one bad in my opinion.

1. The contrast is quite a bit better on this new unit. Held side by side, the new unit wins hands down for contrast.
2. The page turn "flash" is quite a bit less pretty. It seems to overlay the new page's text over the one just read making a real ugly composite, then the black flash and only the next page text remains. Its just as quick, there is less "black time" but the momentary text on text is quite ugly, though very brief.

In my mind the good of 1 outweighs the ugly of 2 but I wondered what's "normal" these days? Is condition 2 common or just the unit I got?

I think now that I can read again, I'll just wait for them to push the 2.3 onto this unit.

Thoughts?