Amazon Announces 4 New Kindle devices...

[bobertson]

Originally Posted by tomsem

K3 has 532MHz CPU, KT is around 800 if reports are true.

That sounds pretty good. Where did you find the numbers? Seems weird that Amazon is downplaying the performance improvement.

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

I'd wager that they're doing the partial refresh thing the nook touch does. It'd tend to cause more ghosting.

Yeah, that does make sense, I didn't think of it. Thanks

[replica145]

Wonder what the back is made of...looks like the back of the K2, probably plastic though I can't stand the fingerprint collector on the K3.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Tanzaku

Now I'm confused. Is this an Android device? Will it run Android apps like my ASUS Transformer?

The Kindle Fire (the tablet) is an Android device. All the eInk Kindles run Linux.

[ice5968]

Originally Posted by Blossom

You just keep your Library on Dropbox and download only what you are going to read to the new Kindle. If you advertise enough people sign up under you, you can get up to 8GB free. I'm at 5.8GB of space so far. So Storage doesn't bother me.

how do I connect Kindle 3 to my Dropbox account. I can install Dropbox on my iPhone but can't do it on kindle. Would you kindly point me to the right direction.

[tomsem]

My expectation is that for the most part, Fire will not have artificial restrictions on the apps one can get from App Store (except where apps have hardware requirements not fulfilled by Fire, like webcam or aGPS). So 3rd party reading apps like Kobo, Aldiko, Mantano, ezPDF etc., should work okay. There's your ePub-Kindle support. Will be interesting to see if B&N will submit their Nook app...

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by ice5968

how do I connect Kindle 3 to my Dropbox account. I can install Dropbox on my iPhone but can't do it on kindle. Would you kindly point me to the right direction.

You need to login to the Dropbox web site with the Kindle browser. Then you can access any non DRM mobi/azw you might have ( but not PDF).

[=X=]

Originally Posted by HarryT

The Kindle Fire (the tablet) is an Android device. All the eInk Kindles run Linux.

Well technically speaking they're all Linux devices.

Originally Posted by Tanzaku

Now I'm confused. Is this an Android device? Will it run Android apps like my ASUS Transformer?

The kindle fire is rumored to be Android 2.1. So any app that works on Android 2.1 should work. Your Asus Transformer is based on 3.0. Which allows it to run tablet optimized apps.

=X=

[tomsem]

Speaking of Dropbox, the app is not currently in Amazon App Store. Hope that will change. We should see more apps showing up even before Fire launches, as app publishers realize the potential and necessity of reaching Fire customers directly.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by =X=

Well technically speaking their all Linux devices.

Well yeah... but only one of those embedded Linux O.S.'s is more commonly referred to as Android.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by Blossom

You just keep your Library on Dropbox and download only what you are going to read to the new Kindle. If you advertise enough people sign up under you, you can get up to 8GB free. I'm at 5.8GB of space so far. So Storage doesn't bother me.

That would be a solution..and the new Kindles are pretty. I wish I could see one in person to try out the touch screen...My iPhone irritates me at times so I'd want to avoid that with my reader.

As for the new cases... I don't like the look and the limited color choices, but I do like the light.

I can see myself getting K4s for my kids, if they're interested. Not so sure about the KTs though. Again I'd want to play with one in person.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by ice5968

how do I connect Kindle 3 to my Dropbox account. I can install Dropbox on my iPhone but can't do it on kindle. Would you kindly point me to the right direction.

Just open the K3's browser go to Dropbox's website, log in and click on any Mobi/Prc file to download your book. It's that's easy. I made a txt file with the link so I can do it straight from my home sceen. There's a thread in the Kindle forum on how to do that.

Another way I do it, is I download a book from Dropbox on my phone then send it through my email to my kindle from my phone.
The Dropbox Andriod app does has a Share a file option so I use that on my phone to go straight to gmail with the file attached then I send it to my Kindle like I would any other email.

[geertm]

Originally Posted by tomsem

My expectation is that for the most part, Fire will not have artificial restrictions on the apps one can get from App Store (except where apps have hardware requirements not fulfilled by Fire, like webcam or aGPS). So 3rd party reading apps like Kobo, Aldiko, Mantano, ezPDF etc., should work okay. There's your ePub-Kindle support. Will be interesting to see if B&N will submit their Nook app...

Several people on the B&N Nook Color board have mentioned that certain apps from the Amazon app store cannot be bought because they are not compatible with the (rooted) Nook Color. So the app store is already able to make apps available only to certain models.
As the Fire is running on an older version of Android, heavily modified by Amazon (fork), it would not surprise me if only a subset of the apps will be available for the fire. And it would also not suprise me if ePub reader apps and other apps that compete with Amazon would not be among those supported apps.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by bobertson

That sounds pretty good. Where did you find the numbers? Seems weird that Amazon is downplaying the performance improvement.



Yeah, that does make sense, I didn't think of it. Thanks

One of the now-proven-to-be-accurate prognosticators cited the CPU model; I looked it up and that was the spec. I'd like confirmation of course.

[Indio777]

Originally Posted by Tanzaku

Now I'm confused. Is this an Android device? Will it run Android apps like my ASUS Transformer?

If you are talking about the Fire, yes, it runs on Android. Question seems to be how "Amazonized" it will be. For example, how much freedom will people have to install apps that are not from Amazon's app store? Or will everything pretty much take place in a controlled Amazon-only environment? Could be wrong, but that's kind of the impression I get, based on the current information available.

The limited internal storage, lack of an external card slot, lack of support for epub format.......eh, think I will pass for now.

[xg4bx]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Correct!

I avoid the ads by doing this. When I'm done reading, I close the cover before sliding the power switch off. When ready to read again, I slide the power switch on before I open then cover. At no point during this process are the ads ever seen.

i have a kso. the ads are nowhere near as intrusive as one would think. i honestly couldn't even say what the products being advertised are half the time, the backgrounds they use for them are pretty unobtrusive and some are pretty classy looking like a line drawing of birds with a little visa logo in the corner. they're not obnoxious "look at me!" kinda things.


i'm not a tablet fan but for $199? yeeeah i'll end up getting one.