New Graphite Kindle DX on July 7th!

[joblack]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

Your meaningless arguments will not resurrect Irex: just accept it.

Irex isn't dead just in Chapter X. We will see more Irex devices in the future.

[MobileTechReview]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The Kindle is primarily aimed at the fiction reading market, not textbooks.

When Amazon first released the DX, they stated the device was intended to push into the college education market, being better for text books and PDFs.

Not saying anything against the DX, but that was Amazon's great hope for the device. I find it does make an excellent home fiction reader (fewer page turns, but less portable hence the "home" designation), and it's useful for reading PDF manuals-- and I think that's where it ended up in terms of market position.

[pilotbob]

Do we actually know that the Graphite will be released with the same hardware and firmware as the current DX has other than the screen change?

BOb

[harryE123]

@ MobileTech exactly, well said.

Originally Posted by avlad

@harryE123
Why don't you start a new thread in which you can express all your complaints/frustrations about Amazon devices and stop commenting off various threads.

My comments are specific to the dx, its storage, its evolution, or lack thereof and it's capabilities as a pdf/textbook reader, which are all very relevant here of course. If you don't think they are you might want to comment on why. And what various threads? I 've commented in two, or max three.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Do we actually know that the Graphite will be released with the same hardware and firmware as the current DX has other than the screen change?

BOb

We don't, but if there had been any significant new firmware features, I'm sure Amazon would have announced them. Their silence on the subject rather suggests that it'll use the same firmware as the current devices.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by HarryT

We don't, but if there had been any significant new firmware features, I'm sure Amazon would have announced them. Their silence on the subject rather suggests that it'll use the same firmware as the current devices.

True.. just looked at the web page and the specs do seem the same.

Wasn't some type of SDK released for the Kindle? I'm surprised there is no third party PDF reader for it out there yet.

BOb

[Brainiac 5]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wasn't some type of SDK released for the Kindle? I'm surprised there is no third party PDF reader for it out there yet.

There is an SDK (although I think it's still in beta?). However, one of the terms imposed on developers is that their application cannot be a general-purpose reading program.

[harryE123]

Originally Posted by Brainiac 5

There is an SDK (although I think it's still in beta?). However, one of the terms imposed on developers is that their application cannot be a general-purpose reading program.

unbefrigginlievable...

[Sylver]

Originally Posted by TallMomof2

I'm looking forward to the improved contrast. I will wait to see how it compares with my original DX before selling that. The graphite color is okay but I would probably skin it.

I, too, am very interested about the claimed 50% better contrast - not sure how they came up to quantify this.

[HarryT]

The 50% better contrast figure comes directly from from the screen manufacturer, eInk.

[avinatbezeq]

Originally Posted by Sylver

I, too, am very interested about the claimed 50% better contrast - not sure how they came up to quantify this.

In my days at the Physics lab I learnt to distrust too-round numbers.

I'd rather trust a 43% better contrast than a 50% one.

[HarryT]

See this news item:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89292

It actually reports a contrast improvement of "approximately 50%". It's gone from about 7:1 to about 11:1 contrast ratio between the ink and the screen background.

[Geppetto]

Originally Posted by joblack

Irex isn't dead just in Chapter X. We will see more Irex devices in the future.

Yeah, look at this: http://www.fd.nl/artikel/16806747/ne...aders-failliet

[HarryT]

Could you summarise for those of us who don't speak Dutch?

[m-reader]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Could you summarise for those of us who don't speak Dutch?

Google translates:

The Dutch manufacturer iRex Technologies of e-readers on Tuesday by the court in Den Bosch bankrupt.

Shareholders and bank Deutsche Bank wanted the new company does not provide funding. IRex had been dealing with a debt of over € 10 million

Curator Martin Kemp expects that the company can make a new start in Eindhoven. Several parties are interested in intellectual property and knowledge of the thirty employees, he said Tuesday. "I am confident that the company will continue. There's nothing lost. "

Pioneer

IRex was the beginning of this century with a pioneering technology that enables digital books to read without eye fatigue caused by the display. Since last year the market for e-readers a real fighting market. Prices for digital reading boards are hard fall while iRex bet on more expensive, higher quality e-readers.

The company said earlier this month moratorium on. There was, according to Kemp € 1.5 million to € 2 million additional funding necessary for the short-term survival. Last week was an application for a loan from the Brabant Development Agency rejected on Monday were discussions with shareholders and Deutsche Bank, spoke.

So not all is lost, provided they get the loans required to go on.