Competition for Amazon's Kindle E-book reader available Tolino shine - Wiesbaden Kurier

class=”adsense-button”> In times of increasing digitization of all content, e-book readers move increasingly into focus. The reader does not have any printed book edition more to go. He reads his books using the e-book reader into digital versions, the so-called e-books. Well-known representative of the e-book reader is the “Kindle” (current model: Paperwhite – Stand 15.05.2013) of the internet retailer Amazon. With said device to Amazon started as a leader and also offers various e-books for sale. Since March 2013, the Amazon Kindle has in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have competition. In cooperation of the world, Thalia, Hugendubel, Club Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom “Tolino shine” was born. Through the cooperation of actually competing booksellers succeeded the participants to bring a counterweight to Amazon’s Kindle to the market. For this purpose, the consortium of booksellers from Deutsche Telekom will s upport the technical implementation. The telecommunications company provides free Internet access to hotspots for wireless-enabled e-book readers available.

Tolino shine scores with expandable memory
experts and users alike expect the launch of Tolino shine with power. At the same time, they hope to answer the question, if Amazon gets serious competition. The Tolino shine can score in comparison to Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite with a cheaper price. At the display, there are no differences: Both devices have a screen with six inches and a resolution of 1024 x 758 pixels, which is operated with touch and swipe of your finger. The same applies to the processor (800 MHz), memory (256 megabytes) and the wireless capability. In view of the battery cuts the Tolino shine in direct comparison did better. With four gigabytes of internal storage (Amazon’s Kindle 2 GB) is already superior to the factory equipment. The user has the option to expand the memory via an SD memory card with up to 32GB. The latter option is missing in the White Paper. Other differences exist in the battery and the operating system: The Tolino shine is not only lighter, 183 grams compared to 213 grams, but uses Google’s Android, while the Amazon Kindle is powered by Linux

. Satisfactory operation, easy to read screen and long battery life
The purchase price of the Tolino shine is to compare the Amazon Kindle lower. Losses must accept the buyer of the cheaper device for the functions. Mark and writing of notes is not possible, also missing a dictionary and the ability to read in landscape mode. Also pictures can not show the device. However, the e-book reader gets mostly positive customer reviews. Positive fall to the uniform illumination, the intuitive operation and easy to read screen. This convinced the Tolino shine with its battery life: At maximum brightness recharging after about 40 hours of reading time is necessary. A successful innovation compared with the Amazon Kindle is the smart hyphenation. The Tolino shine that enables its user to choose between seven font sizes and five fonts. Therefore, varying the number of matching words in a row. Thanks to the hyphenation represents the Tolino shine each side alwa ys with the best typeface dar.

Internet-capable reader for location-independent access to e-books
The aforementioned wireless support Tolino shine is Internet-ready. As a straightforward download new e-books is also possible en route. There are more than 300,000 digital editions to choose from. In addition, the e-book reader has an integrated web browser. This allows the owner to borrow for a certain period, for example e-books from public libraries. The digital books are borrowed invites the reader down on his Tolino shine. In summary, the book dealer syndicate with the Tolino shine a favorable and pleasant to read e-book reader. However, the user has less functions.