Live Blog Links for Amazon Press Conference - Page 11

tomsem · 09-28-2011, 11:25 AM

Can we assume full access to Amazon App Store? If so, you'll be able to put Kobo, Aldiko, Mantano Reader on there. Probably Nook as well if you can enable '3rd party' apps. Wonder if Nook not being there is due to Amazon not allowing it or B&N not submitting it—I suspect the latter.

MikeB1972 · 09-28-2011, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HarryT

No sign of the "Touch" being available to order yet.

One thing I do notice is that the "Keyboard" has only 2GB RAM, with 1.25GB available to the user. That's only 38% of the amount of RAM available on the current Kindles.

Yep, looks like a definite budget version - worse battery as well 1 month life to the 2 month life of the old keyboard or the new touch.

Shame they won't support unencrypted epub, can't really be bothered keeping all my books in 2 formats.

Still the £89 against $109 means we might get a good price on the Fire - if it's ever released here.

tomsem · 09-28-2011, 11:30 AM

Too bad Kindle Touch doesn't benefit from the 'Silk' browser acceleration.

mewmartigan · 09-28-2011, 11:30 AM

The new lighted covers look nice....light swings out from the top center.

I have already pre-ordered my $99 Touch.

texasnightowl · 09-28-2011, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zanshin

The 79$ Kindle has buttons on the sides.

Yes, I was just looking at the quick start guide and it does confirm buttons on the sides. Yay!

tomsem · 09-28-2011, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeB1972

Yep, looks like a definite budget version - worse battery as well 1 month life to the 2 month life of the old keyboard or the new touch.

Shame they won't support unencrypted epub, can't really be bothered keeping all my books in 2 formats.

Still the £89 against $109 means we might get a good price on the Fire - if it's ever released here.

I don't understand why they don't offer ePub to mobi conversion as part of the @kindle.com email service. It would be trivial.

Papi · 09-28-2011, 11:33 AM

Am I wrong or delivery for the Kindle Touch and Kindle "Button" is 11/21 in US, but pre-order for Kindle Button says delivery on 10/12 on the UK and German Kindle ?

mewmartigan · 09-28-2011, 11:33 AM

Kindle button ships today in the US.

HarryT · 09-28-2011, 11:34 AM

It says "12th October", if that's what you mean by "10/12".

tubemonkey · 09-28-2011, 11:34 AM

New Model Recap

$79 - Kindle w/ Special Offers (non-touch)
$109 - Kindle without SO (non-touch)
$99 - Kindle Touch WF w/ Special Offers
$139 - Kindle Touch WF without SO
$149 - Kindle Touch 3G w/ Special Offers
$189 - Kindle Touch 3G without SO
$199 - Kindle Fire

trevgriff · 09-28-2011, 11:34 AM

Looks as though none of the new Kindle models have an expansion sd or micro sd slot. Can anyone verify this? If there was an available slot I might consider the touch 3g.

Daithi · 09-28-2011, 11:35 AM

I think I may have misunderstood something that was covered in the press conference. They had been talking about Whispersync and using it with movies and music, and then they started talking about the new Silk Browser.

I think I made the erroneous connection that the device was going to support a connection to the internet via WhisperNet and the Silk Browser. I was just WRONG. Whispersync and WhisperNet are two different things and the Kindle Fire doesn't have a 3G connection at all -- thus no WhisperNet.

elemenoP · 09-28-2011, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

I don't understand why they don't offer ePub to mobi conversion as part of the @kindle.com email service. It would be trivial.

Because they want you to buy your books from Amazon.

eP

Flub · 09-28-2011, 11:35 AM

Doesn't look like we're getting the Touch in the UK for a while

<sadface>

HarryT · 09-28-2011, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trevgriff

Looks as though none of the new Kindle models have an expansion sd or micro sd slot. Can anyone verify this? If there was an available slot I might consider the touch 3g.

Given that no existing Kindle has an expansion slot, there's really no reason to suppose that the new models would have one.

09-28-2011, 11:34 AM	#160
tubemonkey monkey on the fringe Posts: 45,476 Karma: 158151390 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Seattle Metro Device: Moto E6, Echo Show	New Model Recap $79 - Kindle w/ Special Offers (non-touch) $109 - Kindle without SO (non-touch) $99 - Kindle Touch WF w/ Special Offers $139 - Kindle Touch WF without SO $149 - Kindle Touch 3G w/ Special Offers $189 - Kindle Touch 3G without SO $199 - Kindle Fire

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trevgriff Zealot Posts: 149 Karma: 1001622 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: iPad Mini - Main Reader (iPad 3 backup, iPhone 4s back to my backup)	Looks as though none of the new Kindle models have an expansion sd or micro sd slot. Can anyone verify this? If there was an available slot I might consider the touch 3g.

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