Increase image In the premier class: Amazon’s Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (left) weighs less than the iPad Air, the surface is designed so that you apps, books, music, videos, and audiobooks from the … – Photo: Kitty Kleist Heinrich e-books were up to last year for most people synonymous with Amazon and the Kindle reader. The German book trade, however, with the Tolino found in cooperation with Telekom in 2013 a response to the dominance of Amazon. Already the premiere version of Tolino e-book reader was both technically and price-competitive with the Amazon devices. The book trade was possible to develop a reader for electronic books, which all of the advantages of this technique – very sharp display with electronic ink, extremely long battery range and a built-in lighting – bot. Shine With the advancement of Tolino (99 euros) dominates this reader now also initially missing functions for notes and to look up in dictionaries and translation tools.
But Amazon has improved. When the first generation Kindle Paperwhite formed when the lighting function at the bottom – where are the LEDs – unsightly light shade. In the new version (129 €), the light falls evenly on the screen now, so there is a tie with the Tolino on this point. In other issues, especially ease of use, the counterparty at matters little. The Kindle Paperwhite is exactly synchronized via the cloud as the Tolino shine. If you switch from the Kindle App for the iPhone Paperwhite, so you can more precisely at the point where you left off on the other device. This is about the telecom cloud mutandis to the Tolino. In the points size, weight, endurance, grip and display quality, there is also no significant differences.
which e-reader you choose, depends on other criteria. The largest selection of books in total – also free titles from classics – can be found on Amazon. Assuming, however, the available German title as a benchmark, the bookseller, at around half a million German title forward. A strong criterion are the formats in which e-books are stored. Amazon uses a proprietary format that is not supported by any other provider. Specifically, this means: one Kindle, Kindle ever. The German Book Trade benefits for the Tolino reader, however, the open ePub format. It is also copy-protected, you can, with its electronic books yet, for example, to move from one Tolino on a Kobo reader -., Or switch from one bookseller to another, but they assume his old inventory on a new device
The e-book prices are due to the book price no criterion
The cost of e-books, however, are in Germany because of the book price no decision criterion.
The book trade has, however, repulsed not only in e-readers. Since autumn make the world, Thalia, Hugendubel and Co. Amazon in particular with competition tablets. As the e-reader operate the tablets under the brand name Tolino. The Tolino tab 7 with a 7-inch HD display costs 179 euros, the 8.9-inch Tolino tab 8.9 with its full-HD display around 250 euros. Equipped with quad core processors and 16 gigabytes of built-in memory, they have even for game apps sufficient power reserves. The battery lasts a good twelve hours, the weight is acceptable with 335 or 533 grams. Impressive are the speakers. They are arranged so that they are arranged when watching a film left and right of the image and unlike many competitors have up to offer optimum stereo sound.
Amazon has with the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 in the same classes go. With 199 euros and 379 euros for the great Fire HDX Amazon Tablets are more expensive. The HDX 8.9 presents itself even as a serious alternative to Apple’s iPad Air With a weight of just 375 grams, the Amazon tablet is even one hundred grams lighter than the already lightweight iPad Air max can be the HDX 8.9 with 64 gigabytes and configure storage with fast LTE data radio as a complement to W-Lan and will cost 579 euros. With the 2.2 gigahertz quad-core processor and eight-megapixel rear camera, the HDX has 8.9 the comparison with the iPad Air does not shy away, the tablet is light in the hand, all applications run smoothly, there are practical accessories such as the origami envelope with Stand function.
Even more, however, than in making the e-readers at the Kindle tablet, the Amazon philosophy noticeable. The Tolino tablets based on the open Android system (4.2.2). About Google Play Store, you can set up his tablet according to their own desires and needs, as well as any available app can be installed on a Tolino. And even with the media content such as books, music, videos, the Tolinos are open in most directions. The Kindle Fire Tablets HDX even based on Android, but Amazon has also added its own user interface. The focus is on the carousel of recently used apps, you can switch very quickly between them. The menu bar also leads easily to your Amazon e-book store, the Amazon video daughter Lovefilm or the Amazon Audiobook offshoot Audible. In addition, Amazon provides the tablet with its own app store, unlike the Google Store only tested apps found in the inlet. The price for the ease of use is that one is severely limited in the selection. While there are legal detours, but must be dispensed with user comfort.
Amazon is more comfortable, the Tolino project open
Conclusion: Amazon makes its customers still a tad bit easier to spend money on e-books, videos, music and audiobooks issue. For this you shall be as strong as anywhere else fixed to a provider. The cooperation of the German Book Trade in the Tolino-family sets the with an alternative that is confident in its openness of formats and systems and competitively priced.
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