My wild guess: KPW3 coming soon

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by Yolina

And Amazon UK CS have just got back to me by email, missing the point completely, and kindly explained how I could manage my content to free up space on my device

They rep has confirmed that 4GB memory is a new feature of the devices currently sold . I just find it strange that it's not officially listed anywhere in the specs, and obviously there has been no announcement of a new model. So yeah, if they're going to do those kinds of improvements silently and late into the release cycle then I won't be buying any future model in a hurry then.

Well it must be very recent as I got a PW2 3G in May and that's 2GB in storage.

[elemenoP]

Here's my theory: Amazon bought a whole bunch of 4gb hard drives to put in the next release of Paperwhite (to come out this fall), and stopped buying 2gb HDs. The 2gb HDs ran out, so they had to put the 4gb HDs in the current model, but they don't want to advertise it, since they will use the 4gb storage as a selling point on the next Kindle ("twice the storage!!!").

Anyway, I don't think it's any big deal. Products to improve, after you bought yours. That's the way of technology.

eP

[Yolina]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

Here's my theory: Amazon bought a whole bunch of 4gb hard drives to put in the next release of Paperwhite (to come out this fall), and stopped buying 2gb HDs. The 2gb HDs ran out, so they had to put the 4gb HDs in the current model, but they don't want to advertise it, since they will use the 4gb storage as a selling point on the next Kindle ("twice the storage!!!").

Or as we all know, the same amount of storage we had in the K3 That's progress for you...