Kindle 11th Gen: Rumours, Speculation, and Discussion

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Mnementh

For heavens sake give it a rest already.

Shari

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by Mnementh

For heavens sake give it a rest already.

Oh that would never do. Giving something a rest is just like EOLing it, isn't it?

(It's not dead. It's just pinin' for the firmware)

[ps67]

IMHO there are 2 possible - quite obvious - things that Amazon could do:

1. a device with 8" screen or wider;
   
2. they could experiment a colours device.

But, especially for colours, I don't think that it will come so soon, it will come when they are sure that it can be a really good device.

About larger device if Amazon produced Kindle DX some Years ago they could do a similar modern Kindle (but until now there isn't anything like that).

[haydnfan]

There are alot of dreamers on this thread. Let's be more realistic. I see two possibilities.

Paperwhite 5: has adjustable color temp.
new Basic Kindle: has 212 ppi res up from 167 ppi.

I don't see Amazon going the 600 ppi route, or introducing the color kindle yet, I don't see them adding the ability to write with a stylus or introducing larger sizes. These are things that you want, but doesn't recognize how ereaders for the past eight years have been nothing but incremental improvements.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by haydnfan

There are alot of dreamers on this thread. Let's be more realistic. I see two possibilities.

Paperwhite 5: has adjustable color temp.
new Basic Kindle: has 212 ppi res up from 167 ppi.

I agree.

[tomsem]

I’d like ability to attach BT keyboard so you can turn pages, navigate, and annotate ‘remotely’ (without touch interface), immersion reading, and return of TTS. But this should not require new hardware.

[HLS]

I have a big dream that will never happen and that is an ereader by Apple. Thin, slightly smaller than ipad mini but with eink or color eink and in rose gold color. That will be such a beautiful device I think.

[HLS]

Originally Posted by shalym

You realize that the Libra and Forma have almost the same shape as the Oasis, right?

Shari

Yes but without that stupid hump the oasis has and it has a battery life 10x better.

[HLS]

Originally Posted by Tarana

Things would have to change a lot for a color ereader at Amazon. It failed with Nook. Who needs color when most of what they read are novels and other text based offerings? Use a tablet instead. I'm betting that's why the Nook color died so fast.

I think you are confused. Nook NEVER had a color ereader. It was a Nook branded tablet. They can't fail at something they never had. To be a color ereader it has to have color eink dsplay.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by HLS

I think you are confused. Nook NEVER had a color ereader. It was a Nook branded tablet. They can't fail at something they never had. To be a color ereader it has to have color eink dsplay.

Perhaps you should check your history. The first Nook I saw had an eInk screen and a colour LCD screen for controls and advertising.

And please don't try to revisit the ereader wars. Too many electrons have already died in those battles. eInk, LCD, RLCD, Mirasol, whatever. If it's main purpose to allow you to read books, it's an ereader.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Steve Jobs ghost came back and chastised Tim Cook for using Intel processors. So Apple made their own processor and are switching to it.

Apple has been designing and using their own silicon based on the ARM reference designs in iPhones, iPod Touch, Apple TV, Ipads, etc. for years and using them in far higher quantities than the Mac desktop/laptop line. Moving their Macs to the same processors (probably) gives Apple more control while reducing their costs.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by hobnail

Who remembers that special way of writing you had to use on the Palm Pilot?

Graffiti and Graffiti2.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Perhaps you should check your history. The first Nook I saw had an eInk screen and a colour LCD screen for controls and advertising.

And please don't try to revisit the ereader wars. Too many electrons have already died in those battles. eInk, LCD, RLCD, Mirasol, whatever. If it's main purpose to allow you to read books, it's an ereader.

Calling the first Nook a color reading device is ludicrous.

And in context, HLS is right. Nook never made a color e-ink device as mistakenly implied in post #41, which was a response to speculation about a color e-ink Nook.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Calling the first Nook a color reading device is ludicrous.

And in context, HLS is right. Nook never made a color e-ink device as mistakenly implied in post #41, which was a response to speculation about a color e-ink Nook.

Ludicrous? Perhaps. That it possessed a colour LCD screen? Indisputable. I will admit I thought the whole design was risible. But then the whole history of computing has been filled with devices that make you go, WHY? Oh, why would someone create that design.

[tomsem]

You could not read books on the Nook’s color LCD screen. Thus it is not relevant to discussion of ‘color eReaders’ or whatever you want to call it.

By contrast, Entourage Edge (and Edge Jr) had both eink and LCD screen and you could read on either.