How many different Kindles are there?

[Gregg Bell]

(That's somewhat rhetorical.) It looked like there were tons of them on Amazon. Kindle with this. Kindle with that. Then different versions of Kindle Paperwhite. So when they had Black Friday sales and the Kindle advertised was $49 and the PW advertised was $99 is the assumption that they were just the most basic models?

[eschwartz]

Currently there are three models:
Kindle, a/k/a Kindle Basic, what we call KT2 ( Kindle Touch 2)
Kindle Paperwhite 2
Kindle Voyage

The KT2 is the basic model, the PW2 is the regular model, the Voyage is the premium model.

Some are SO (Special Offers) which is a $20 subsidy toggled via software -- it is still the same physical device.


There are older models as well, which aren't sold anymore but can still be found used.
Original Kindle, a/k/a Kindle 1
Kindle 2
Kinde DX (Occasionally more pop up for sale by Amazon)
Kindle Keyboard, a/k/a Kindle 3
Kindle Touch
Kindle Basic, a/k/a Kindle 4
Kindle Paperwhite 1

[Gregg Bell]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Currently there are three models:
Kindle, a/k/a Kindle Basic, what we call KT2 ( Kindle Touch 2)
Kindle Paperwhite 2
Kindle Voyage

The KT2 is the basic model, the PW2 is the regular model, the Voyage is the premium model.

Some are SO (Special Offers) which is a $20 subsidy toggled via software -- it is still the same physical device.


There are older models as well, which aren't sold anymore but can still be found used.
Original Kindle, a/k/a Kindle 1
Kindle 2
Kinde DX (Occasionally more pop up for sale by Amazon)
Kindle Keyboard, a/k/a Kindle 3
Kindle Touch
Kindle Basic, a/k/a Kindle 4
Kindle Paperwhite 1

Thanks Boss. That makes it easy. But this leads to another question: Aren't the special offers just ads? So they charge you an extra $20 just to avoid the ads? And the pop-up on Amazon says the "special offers" don't interrupt reading, but aren't the ads visible on the bottom of the screen as you read?

I don't think ads on the screensaver would be so bad, but on the bottom of the page while I'm reading I wouldn't like.

Do other ereaders have ads too?

And what about Kindle PW with 3G? Is that almost like being online? With the regular old Kindle all you can do is go to Amazon.com?

[eschwartz]

They actually charge you $20 less, to accept the ads.

The ads opnly appear as the screensaver, and on the bottom of the homescreen when you are NOT reading. During reading, there are no ads.

The Kindle PW with 3G can view and download from the Kindle Store, lookup words in Wikipedia/Big Translate and share books via Facebook/Twitter via the in-book popup, and mark your book's status on Goodreads. That is it.

Amazon is not subsidizing your generic internet browsing experience.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

There are older models as well, which aren't sold anymore but can still be found used.
Original Kindle, a/k/a Kindle 1
Kindle 2
Kinde DX (Occasionally more pop up for sale by Amazon)
Kindle Keyboard, a/k/a Kindle 3
Kindle Touch
Kindle Basic, a/k/a Kindle 4
Kindle Paperwhite 1

Just to add to this ...

I think there were two different DX models and definitely two different "Kindle Basic" (Kindle 4, non-touch) models. One (2011 model) was silver (graphite) and one (2012 model) was black. The black Kindle 4 had slightly sharper fonts and was a bit faster.

[eschwartz]

I didn't realize they changed more than the color.

I knew about the DX/DXG.

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

I didn't realize they changed more than the color.

I knew about the DX/DXG.

The fonts were (in my opinion) noticeably better (sharper) on the newer version, but the supposed 15% increase in speed, I couldn't vouch for that, one way or the other.