Friday, December 5, 2014

Sharp and expensive: Amazon Kindle Voyage Tests – netzwelt.de

Amazon says goodbye to the latest e-book reader Voyage of the “White Paper” label. The new name suggests more changes as the new model brings in comparison to the previous series with it. Nevertheless, the reader shows in our test at its best.

300 pixels per inch are distributed on the display of the Amazon Voyage. A higher value is currently offering any other manufacturer. Closest to it Kobo is the aura H20 with 264 ppi at a screen size of 6.8 inches. The Amazon model follows in terms of size, remains the standard. Six inches

The high resolution of 1,440 x 1,080 pixels coupled with the e-ink technology Carta of the display and “optimized font technology” – as stated in the data sheet – ensure an extremely easy to read even in low light conditions. An E Ink Pearl display can not keep up, and also in comparison with the Tolino Vision 2 and the PocketBook Ultra, which also rely on the new screen technology, the Kindle Voyage fares better. Minor flaw: If you refresh from the regular pages, you see slight ghosting in the background. Lines of past pages shimmer so by. A touch of podium is only to realize when you are daring enough, at maximum font size and brightest light setting.



Amazon Kindle Voyage Test

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The Kindle Voyage is available with extra charge, Wi-Fi or 3G.


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The light is extremely smooth and convincing across the board in our Kindle Voyage. The problem area in front lighting, the lower edge, remained free of shadows in the test. On Amazon, however, accumulate votes in favor of ugly gradients and pixel. None of this we have seen in practice. Apparently we had a knack in our prototype.

An extra Kindle, Voyage is the automatic brightness adjustment. The reader can make it through the device’s control over the lighting. I was the regulated standard but usually too bright or too dark. The classical Kindle hooks in lighting: The light can not be switched off completely. In normal use, which is hardly noticeable. On the battery life of this fact draws one is. Six weeks promises to Amazon. After intensive use of the Internet and the battery light coming to an end at our unit after two.



As before with 3G

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Problems with PDF

As usual, can not be read from the factory on Kindle EPUB files. First convert to AZW, MOBI, PRC, PDF or DOC remedy. Or you can buy just only on Amazon, where e-books unsurprisingly be in the appropriate format. The PDF version can be tricky. A reflow mode, as with

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