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Amazon working on 6 inch eReader with color eInk screen
One of the players no one saw coming into the tablet race a few months ago is Amazon, a company known for pushing its services to consumers through subsidies for various popular products that are used as a gateway for purchasing content from Amazon. The Kindle eReader was the first example of this brilliant strategy, then followed the Amazon Kindle Fire at the end of 2011.
Now it seems Amazon wants to strike one again into the eBook competition with a color eInk 6 inch eReader. This could be a bridge between traditional eInk eReaders and color LCD models like the Kindle Fire. It could mean better graphics magazines and eBooks without the drawback of decreased battery life.
You still wouldn’t be able to watch videos, but browsing various websites should be fine if they’re optimized for mobile devices. And because Amazon is serious when launching a new product expect the new Kindle to sell for under $150 bucks. Speaking about the screen itself, expect to see the new EInk Triton model [details], announced in 2010, to be the main star of the show.
The Kindle Color eReader will also be touchscreen enabled, which makes it even easier to use. Personally I can’t wait to see what Amazon has in works, and hope this rumor is true, so that I can finally purchase my very own eReader, not that Black and White is the reason I don’t do much offline reading…
The new eInk Triton display makes possible a color Kindle
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But the first ebook reader with color e-ink screen is already launched
jetbookk12.com/jetbookcolor/?refid=29532
I know, but Amazon has no color eInk eReader. It’s their first…
However, I have already an Amazon Kindle touch and one Kindle Keyboard and I could notify that there are excellent – superb devices.
I migrated to my HTC FLyer just to read all my (color) photo magazines and news- but an e-ink color screen is an interesting alternative for reading only.
Nope:
the-digital-reader.com/2012/02/20/amazon-to-launch-6-color-kindle-this-year/
I’m so glad that I waited!!!! I bought a bunch of Fire’s for Christmas gifts and all my friends love them but I held off on buying one for myself, based on the justified complaints that serious reviewers had about the device. I can already read books and watch amazon streaming videos on my Samsung tablet but I REALLY want a dedicated Kindle device to tap into their free 12 books to rent option. I’ve already had to pop for two books I wanted to read that were FREE (darn it!) to Kindle owners so I’m already $25.00 bucks in the hole from saving for a Kindle of some sort.
I really don’t want standard e-ink any longer. I was one of the brave few who saw the future with e-readers and had a Sony Reader when they first launched….and was laughed at by EVERYONE for having such a “silly gimmick”. Ha-Ha right back at them! Who’s laughing NOW????? I found the e-ink platform boring beyond belief and the grey shades they worked with bugged the crap outta me but there was no alternatives at that time. With a coloured e-ink reader (and such a wee size, to book) the illustrated books and magazines that I enjoy reading will seem more true to live and I’ll get access to those free 12 books, too! Yippie!