Since this Thursday (10.02.) Amazon delivers the fifth-generation Kindle. Compared to the previous model, there are two years old, thanks to a touch screen completely new operating concept for the first time in this country there are also “special”. In the first purchasers or even professional testers to quickly make wide disillusionment.
59 € cost of the new Kindle in Germany, 10 Euro more than the same name Vormodell (the better distinction sake is called “Kindle 5″ and Kindle 4 “after the model generation, Amazon uses these terms are not). There are “special”, a euphemism for advertising on Sleep-screen and in the bottom of the main menu at this price. Within eBooks Readers will fear no advertising insertions. Without advertising 79 EUR have to be paid, you can also once set the ad-supported model and subsequently “ransom” (for 20 Euro)
Kindle. 5: New housing, new firmware, new hardware, new Operation
Kindle 5
In addition, the device memory has doubled (from 2 to 4 Gbytes, still without leave to amend) installed and a faster processor. The rear panel is now chamfered as at Fire Tablets and Kobo readers (Kobo Aura HD / H 2 O). Firmware new side known from the Kindle Paperwhite functions as the vocabulary trainer and X-Ray collection have received. The operation has been adjusted completely to Kindle Paperwhite (and Kindle Voyage): The control pad has been replaced by a touch screen
Since the mid-week of the new Kindle is delivered, the very great enthusiasm among the owners of the first hour. but remains off. At Amazon.com, the device is currently in a star-section of 3.5 / 5 (20 reviews), in Germany there are 3.7 (7 reviews) and in the UK even only 2.9 / 5 (16 reviews). By comparison, the “old” Kindle had in this country at the end of just under 8,500 reviews a star average of 4.5 / 5
screen quality as 2010
The criticisms of around 40 Kindle. -5-reviewers are almost always the same. The Kindle 5 is slightly thicker and heavier than the Kindle 4, together with the slanted back and a new casing material abuts the exterior on an ambivalent response. The most criticism but draws the display at: The built-up E-Ink Pearl screen with a resolution of only 800x600px we know from three to four years old readers, it is visible contrast weaker and fuzzier than the screens of current eBook Reader. Be enhanced the contrast differences or by the lack of lighting
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colleague Matthias Matting (Self Publisher Bible) brings the opinion also of many journalists in his review on the point. ” The new base Kindle is no longer recommended as an introduction to the electronic device reading. It is perhaps interesting for casual readers – avid users will be more likely deterred them “
The new Kindle is no worse than its previous model, the expectations of customers but has changed in recent years.. This was done, not least thanks to Amazon itself, with the Kindle Paperwhite integrated lighting made for Standardfunkton two years ago. The Kindle Paperwhite 2 ensures a much better readability and is free of advertising; 50 € extra charge are very good investment for regular digital readers money. The clearly see the customer as: Amazon.de In the electronics of the charts one year old Kindle Paperwhite 2 faces the New Release Kindle 5
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The “New Kindle with touch disappointed first owner” was on October 5, 2014 (Sunday) at 16:05 clock by wrote John Main. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is the editor and publisher of lesen.net.
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