Amazon has today not only presented its new Fire tablet, but also taken its latest Kindle generation into the program. The online retailer brings besides the Kindle Paperwhite now a revised Kindle and the Kindle Voyage – the new top model – on the market. The slim Voyage features according to Amazon on the brightest display all models and provides the highest resolution. It costs 189 euros in the Wi-Fi version and 249 Euro with 3G module.
The standard Kindle has been revised, offering a longer battery life and is equipped with a faster processor. Was also enlarges the space. In addition, the Kindle Touch, a user interface has been donated. The Kindle costs 59 euros with advertising (discount) or 79 euros without ads and can be pre-ordered starting today. Amazon shipped the Kindle then from October 2, the shipping for the Voyage takes place on 4 November
Kindle Voyage (Photo: Amazon)
The Kindle Voyage presents itself with a glass front and a rear magnesium. It measures 16.2 times 11.5 times 0.76 inches, weighs 180 grams and is therefore even after a long time still lie comfortably in one hand. Amazon built the Kindle Voyage a brighter Paperwhite display, the pixel density is given as 300 ppi. The Paperwhite achieved compared 212 ppi, the Kindle 167 ppi. Amazon used when display a specially hardened glass that was specifically designed to be scratch-resistant. The display glass Kindle Voyage is microetched to refract the incident light and thus allow reading in bright light without mirror effects. The etching pattern on the glass also mimics the feel of real paper.
The front light is 39 percent brighter than the previous generation and also automatically adjusts the display brightness to the lighting conditions in its environment. The intelligent front lighting can be adjusted to your personal preferences. The human eye is accustomed over time to the darkness, so the light that is needed when you start to start reading, half an hour later often appear blackish. The intelligent front light slowly reduces the screen brightness to suit it to the response of the human eye.
is also new Page Press, a Umblätterfunktion. Page Press uses a specially manufactured pressure sensor that sits just below the frame. The thumb rests relaxed on the frame and one to scroll by a slight pressure is applied. The Kindle Voyage provides a haptic system tactile feedback, so that the reader knows that was turned over without disturbing reading. Page compression allows an individual adjustment of the required pressure flip and the haptic feedback.
The Kindle Voyage is available with or without 3G module. With integrated 3G module books can be in 100 countries, just download. The cost for the 3G connection does Amazon.
for the Kindle Voyage are now already known from the Fire Tablets Origami Cases available. They serve the device in portrait or landscape format as a stand. Origami Cases attach magnetically, so they are easy to install and remove. In addition, they turn the unit on and off when the cover is opened or closed. The covers are available from 44,99 €.
Revision was also the normal Kindle, which is now available with touch screen. This reader can for example also access Kindle Free Time and Smart-Lookup. It is 16.9 times 11.9 Zentimter and a height of 10.2 Millimtern and a weight of 191 grams slightly heavier and thicker than its predecessor (16.5 times 11.4 times 0.87 cm and 170 grams). The memory has been doubled to 4 GB.
Amazon has Kindles some new features as well as a new reading functions donated, which are supplied as part of a free automatic software updates to the Kindle devices. The most interesting family library should be about the first time it is possible to access not only to its own Kindle eBooks, but also read books from the Amazon account of the partner or the partner. Was also improves the search. Search Results from the library and the Kindle Store display with preview on one side. Word Wise makes it easy for readers who read English, and learn to read children who speak English, understand more complex vocabulary. Short and simple definitions appear automatically on complicated words, so you can continue without having to look up the word. To learn more or to see the various meanings of a word, you just have to tap on the term to display an overview of definitions, synonyms, and more. Word Wise is available for selected books in English.
“Our mission is to make them disappear with the Kindle eReader in the background so you can lose yourself completely in the world of writers,” said Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and CEO. “The Kindle Voyage is the next big step on this mission. Love with the thinnest design, the highest resolution and sharpest contrasts, a new Umblätterfunktion and all of its functions, the reader on her Kindle – access to books in a matter of seconds, without mirror effects, so that your eyes do not get tired, read in direct sunlight and a battery life of weeks instead of hours – the Kindle Voyage was designed from the ground up for readers “
Who does not want to wait for the delivery of two new Kindles early October, early November, respectively, can pick up the White Paper, which has undergone a price drop. He is now available for 129 euros instead of 109 euros for only the WLAN or the 3G version for 169 euros instead of 189 euros. The previous kindle can still order for 49 €
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