New "top of the line Kindle" details coming next week

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Some people would whine if they were hung with a new rope.

Or, locally, "jeez, you'd grizzle if a dunny fell on ya."

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by meeera

Or, locally, "jeez, you'd grizzle if a dunny fell on ya."

In fairness, I suspect that most people would .

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by meeera

Or, locally, "jeez, you'd grizzle if a dunny fell on ya."

Translation?

[meeera]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Translation?

"I say, old chap, I deduce it more than moderately likely that you would peevishly lodge a complaint should a lavatory be propelled downward by gravity until it violently made contact with your personage."

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by meeera

"I say, old chap, I deduce it more than moderately likely that you would peevishly lodge a complaint should a lavatory be propelled downward by gravity until it violently made contact with your personage."

Get off the Sherlock Holmes before this mode of speech gets any worse

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by meeera

Or, locally, "jeez, you'd grizzle if a dunny fell on ya."

Ok, Googling tells me grizzle is complain (which is what I thought). But dunny is an outhouse? Do Australians normally not grizzle when a dunny falls on them?

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I really, really doubt that we're going to see a Liquavista device. The leaked information suggests that an eInk device with an additional battery in the cover is likely to be what's coming.

Odds are low but as Nate reported there are leaks about *two* Kindles. One, a new entry level, code named Woody; the other, code named Whisky, has non-haptic Page turn buttons and uses Paperwhite firmware. Neither fits the billing of "new, top of the line" so I suspect they are revamping the entire lineup and there is a third reader in the pipeline.

Because of timing, Liquavista is an option.
So is a Voyage 2, either same size or slightly larger, with or without audio or Alexa.
Or a bigger, academic-focus reader or just about any ereader worthy if "top of the line".

Whatever it is, Bezos saw fit to break pattern and tweet about it. Enough of an oddity to let us fantasize for a week before reality sets in.

(Or until somebody trolls the FCC files and finds something.)

[ApK]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

has non-haptic Page turn buttons

Buttons you can't feel???

I'm hoping you actually mean buttons, rather than haptic feedback sensors.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by ApK

Buttons you can't feel???

I'm hoping you actually mean buttons, rather than haptic feedback sensors.

The report Nate quoted says non-haptic; he don't specify mechanical.

I would prefer something like the swing-arm buttons on the K3 or maybe a side mounted rocker like the old jornadas but there's no telling what those wild and crazy guys at lab126 have cooked up.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

The report Nate quoted says non-haptic; he don't specify mechanical.

I would prefer something like the swing-arm buttons on the K3 or maybe a side mounted rocker like the old jornadas but there's no telling what those wild and crazy guys at lab126 have cooked up.

Hope that's not true. The haptic sensors on the current Kindle Voyage are the best page-turn buttons I've come across.

[Nate the great]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

A non-sequitor in an exchange over newly-announced toys, if so.

Jon said "was" not "is" so i had assumed he meant Sony, and not Tesla.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by loco

I am pretty happy with my pw2 at the moment. I will only go for a newer kindle only if my kindle is rendered unusable/stolen or amazon releases a color kindle.

I'm still waiting for a Kindle with a flexible substrate. Until then, I'll stick with the basic Kindles.

[murg]

Originally Posted by MikeB1972

How close to the registered voice does a command have to be do you think?

Can you just shout
Alexa Mute Volume
OK Google Mute Volume
Siri Mute Volume
Cortana Mute Volume
and have a peaceful journey do you think

Not sure if those commands actually work so, to fit in with advertising rules, Steps Have Been Shortened and Not Actual Game Footage.

Do not try this at home...

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by murg

Do not try this at home...

He: "Alexa, be quiet!"
Me: "And who is Alexa!?!"

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by Shane R

"Alexa annoy the other riders on the train by reading a book out-loud to me."