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Old 12-11-2011, 07:27 PM   #16
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It's the firmware version. The Kindle non-touch has v4.x firmware; the Kindle Touch has v5.x firmware.
So if Amazon comes out with version 6 for the Kindle Touch, it will them be the K6?

If we are going by technology, I'd call the K4 the K2.5 and the K5 the K4.
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Old 12-11-2011, 07:41 PM   #17
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Well, the device is only been freed for a day. Developers aren't magicians.
I'm just asking about the possibilities. I realize there isn't anything you can do with it now.
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Old 12-11-2011, 08:58 PM   #18
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I'm just asking about the possibilities. I realize there isn't anything you can do with it now.
Well two things that I really want (and I may work on it one day if nobody else does) is epub reader natively (aka not an alternative OS) and an app switcher. However, anything is possible if someone can code it.
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Old 12-11-2011, 09:02 PM   #19
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If a hack could let the KT read ePub I might want one myself. I've been contenting myself with the KK because of the websurfing via 3G issue, but epub might be a big enough draw to persuade me to either switch or have two readers.
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I just hope this means that eventually the Kindle Collection addons for Calibre will work with the Touch. :-)
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Old 12-12-2011, 01:30 AM   #21
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So if Amazon comes out with version 6 for the Kindle Touch, it will them be the K6?

If we are going by technology, I'd call the K4 the K2.5 and the K5 the K4.
The Kindle Fire has v6 firmware, you can call that the K6 if you like .
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Old 12-12-2011, 10:49 AM   #22
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For the most part people are calling it the Kindle Touch, Kindle Mini or K4, and the Kindle 3 or Keyboard.

Not too many folks are looking at the firmware number. I was caught off guard when it was called the K5 because I don't have one and wouldn't think to check the firmware number.
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Old 12-12-2011, 11:19 AM   #23
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This just happens to be the first time that Amazon has had multiple current devices with different major firmware numbers. Previously, it didn't matter if you though the numbers referred to hardware generations or to firmware, you would have been right either way.
Since there ARE in fact now several current platforms at the same time, trying to number them as JS Wolf said would be capricious at best and pointlessly arbitrary and confusing at worst. Since those platforms DO only run one major firmware version each, and there is no reason to think Amazon would suddenly change that practice, the firmware version is the best way to refer to them, especially for a hacking purposes.
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Old 12-12-2011, 01:32 PM   #24
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This just happens to be the first time that Amazon has had multiple current devices with different major firmware numbers. Previously, it didn't matter if you though the numbers referred to hardware generations or to firmware, you would have been right either way.
Since there ARE in fact now several current platforms at the same time, trying to number them as JS Wolf said would be capricious at best and pointlessly arbitrary and confusing at worst. Since those platforms DO only run one major firmware version each, and there is no reason to think Amazon would suddenly change that practice, the firmware version is the best way to refer to them, especially for a hacking purposes.
I basically agree, but for practicality, it'll probably need to be a bit of both - firmware version and colloquial name.
Now I'm off to read on my K2 - oh, my DXG, I mean.
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Old 12-13-2011, 12:34 PM   #25
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I basically agree, but for practicality, it'll probably need to be a bit of both - firmware version and colloquial name.
Now I'm off to read on my K2 - oh, my DXG, I mean.
That is the one example of the same firmware version being used on multiple devices.
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