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View Poll Results: What features will the new high-end Kindle have?
Liquavista (colour) display 30 26.55%
Liquavista (greyscale) display 21 18.58%
Physical page turn buttons 50 44.25%
Bigger than 6" screen 52 46.02%
More than 300ppi resolution 30 26.55%
Waterproof 61 53.98%
Solar-power option 39 34.51%
Non-shatter (plastic/metal) screen substrate 24 21.24%
Speakers and/or Microphone 32 28.32%
Text-to-Speech 42 37.17%
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Old 04-06-2016, 09:55 AM   #16
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I don't have a horse in this race as I have yet to go over to teh evil, but screensize is my most important factor, which is why I replaced my workhorse 950 with an H2O. The waterproofing and SD-card slot are immaterial to me. I would be curious if there were a 6.8" (or bigger) screen with 300 ppi or better, but I'm not even sure I can see the difference between the H2O's 265 dpi and the current Voyage's resolution.
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Old 04-06-2016, 09:56 AM   #17
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I'm not even sure I can see the difference between the H2O's 265 dpi and the current Voyage's resolution.
I couldn't see any difference when I had an H2O.
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Old 04-06-2016, 10:25 AM   #18
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I went with:

Physical page turn buttons
More than 300ppi resolution
Waterproof
Solar-power option
Non-shatter (plastic/metal) screen substrate
Speakers and/or Microphone
Text-to-Speech

All I personally need though is waterproof because I spend a lot of time out in the weather. Waterproof and flexible substrate would be great.
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Old 04-06-2016, 10:26 AM   #19
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Old 04-06-2016, 10:37 AM   #20
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Thanks. Same stuff that's being reported elsewhere.
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Old 04-06-2016, 10:40 AM   #21
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Lots of us seem to think that waterproofing is a feature Amazon won't leave out this time.
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Old 04-06-2016, 11:51 AM   #22
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Lots of us seem to think that waterproofing is a feature Amazon won't leave out this time.
I think that's a feature which would have leaked if it were included.
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Old 04-06-2016, 11:52 AM   #23
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I went with:

Physical page turn buttons
More than 300ppi resolution
Waterproof
Solar-power option
Non-shatter (plastic/metal) screen substrate
Speakers and/or Microphone
Text-to-Speech

All I personally need though is waterproof because I spend a lot of time out in the weather. Waterproof and flexible substrate would be great.
I voted for all this plus a bigger screen.

Agreeing waterproofing would be a dream come true.
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Old 04-06-2016, 11:53 AM   #24
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Let's have fun before the announcement!

Vote for the features you think the new high-end Kindle will have!

Poll closes in five days - intended to be before the announcement.
Poll is multiple-choice and public.
I want it to have a screen.
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Old 04-06-2016, 12:00 PM   #25
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I have a 15 year old Calculator that's Solar Powered it still works! Would be nice but I betting not going to happen.
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I voted for physical buttons and TTS, although I'm not getting my hopes up... They want to sell audio-addons/-books
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Old 04-06-2016, 12:39 PM   #27
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A larger screen and more memory would be my priorities. And colour e-ink but I don't expect that for a moment.
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More font choice and margin control would be nice as well. Basically most of the things for which I just bought a Kobo Aura h2o.
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i want customizable touch area
Yes! I could do without buttons if I could set it up something like this:

But if not then it bothers my thumb joint to reach to tap/swipe to change pages, so buttons would be needed.

Also, I seem to remember that on the Jetbook Lite you could choose from bunches of font sizes and they were listed as 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 etc. They just seemed much more customize-able than the Kindle is. And didn't they have more font choices? It's been a while since I played around with it. But I've got bad eyes, I need a bolder larger font, but often when I'm trying to choose a font I can only choose a too small or too large one. More choices would be great.
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Old 04-06-2016, 01:29 PM   #30
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I am only really interested in waterproof protection. Colour? For what? For reading comic 6"/6.8" is small and I don't want a bigger screen for the Kindle. I use a 10" tablet for that. Speakers? No no no for me.
I consider Paperwhite and Voyage very good products, nearly perfect. I still have a KPW1.
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