Japanese language setting for Kindle 4, non-touch? (4.1.1)

[bytestorm]

Originally Posted by dsmid

This numbering scheme is also very common here in the Czech Rep but I believe it is wrong.
It was presented by media not by Amazon. Is there any official definition of "generation" ? I doubt it. I believe Wikipedia is also wrong.
Even if you use the release dates and use K4 for KNT-grey, K5 for KNT-black, where is Kindle Touch ? What generation is it ? 4.5 ? It cannot be 4 nor 5, because KT and KNT are very different devices, in fact KT is much more similar to PW (6th gen!) than to KNT. OTOH KNT-grey and KNT-black are almost identical, why should they belong to different generations ?
This scheme is a complete mess, it's like classifying cat and rabbit among the same species just because they are both fury.

Amazon doesn't use any numbers at all, with one important exception: the major version number of firmware.

The firmware major number is 2 for Kindle 2 and DX, 3 for Kindle Keyboard, 4 for all the non-touch keyboard-less Kindles, regardless their colour, 5 for all the touch models: Kindle Touch, PW and PW2.

haha ok then I understand quite messy indeed.

Well thanks all anyway, but I guess ill just have to buy a new one in japan instead

[knc1]

Originally Posted by bytestorm

haha ok then I understand quite messy indeed.

Well thanks all anyway, but I guess ill just have to buy a new one in japan instead

The Kpw Gen(1) device is still available in Japan, at least from wholesalers.

And we have an add-in here for turning off the front lighting.