Amazon Kindle - the Ultimate Personal Electronic Device?
Posted on April 13, 2008
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The new Kindle from Amazon is a pretty amazing piece of technology. It will without doubt revolutionize not just the way we read, but the means by which we access most all information in the future.
I’m looking over this thing and all sorts possibilities for other ways it might be used in the future spring to mind, but first we need to be able to get one. It looks like Amazon may have underestimated how the Kindle would take off, and are scrambling to scale up the numbers they turn out.
Right now it seems the demand is so phenomenally strong, they can’t make them fast enough. Look at this note on the Amazon site:
Due to heavy customer demand, Kindle is temporarily sold out. We are working hard to manufacture Kindles as quickly as possible and are prioritizing orders on a first come, first served basis. Please ORDER KINDLE NOW to reserve your place in line.
For those not yet familiar with Kindle, it’s a wireless, portable reading device with instant access to books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs. Whether at home, in the car, at the airport, or nearly anywhere, just think of a book and get it in less than a minute.
Learn about Kindle in this video…
Here’s a partial list of features on the Amazon Kindle
- Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper
- Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing
- Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle, whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed
- Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute
- More than 110,000 books available, including more than 90 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers
- New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise
- Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy
- Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal; Top international newspapers; Top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes; all automatically delivered wirelessly
- More than 250 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, all updated wirelessly throughout the day
- Holds over 200 titles, but lighter and thinner than a typical paperback. Weighs only 10.3 ounces
- Long battery life. Leave wireless on and recharge approximately every other day. Turn wireless off and read for a week or more before recharging. Fully recharges in 2 hours
- Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot
- No monthly wireless bills, service plans, or commitments—we take care of the wireless delivery so you can simply click, buy, and read
- Includes free wireless access to Wikipedia.org, the planet’s most exhaustive and up-to-date encyclopedia
- Email Word documents and pictures to Kindle for easy on-the-go viewing
And this is just the first release. Just imagine what this device might one day become if they decide to integrate it with an internet browser, plus full audio, video, games, email, and phone.
The ultimate in connected portability!
We could get rid of every other portable device we have, including blackberry’s, cell phones, ipods, and dvd players. In fact, if you consider that the above list of activities represents probably 90% of what people use laptops for, the need to lug them around decreases substantially.
Get more details or order one for yourself:
Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device
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