E-Tablets: Waterfi sold waterproof Kindle Paperwhite

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Waterfi sold waterproof Kindle Paperwhite – eBook-Fieber.de (blog)

With a waterproof Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is offered for the first time. In this unusual eReader is a modified variant of the company Waterfi.

Kindle Paperwhite finally watertight

The Waterfi Paperwhite is protected from water (c) Waterfi

Before water protected eReader like the Kobo Aura H20, are particularly interesting while browsing in the tub or on the beach. It is true that Amazon has not yet released such a device, the company Waterfi but comes to the dealer now before.

Waterfi has among other waterproof iPods and headphones on offer and existing on the retrofitting of this function in products specialized. The special nano coating of the housing from the adjusted Kindle Paperwhite holds water and prevents short circuits before.

Waterproof Paperhite at booth 2014

Unfortunately it is not in the modified version to the current Amazon eReader, but last year’s model of the Kindle Paperwhite. This can also be seen in the technical data. Here, unfortunately, is missing the new screen with the pixel density of 300 ppi.

There are as usual 4 GB of internal memory for the eBooks available.

Availability and price of the waterproof Paperwhite

The Waterfi eReader can currently only be ordered from Amazon in the US. There is a charge of $ 100 is required for the conversion, whereby the waterproofed Kindle Paperwhite will cost $ 240 proud.

Waterfi granted a one year warranty on the modified model. The device comes without discount and is designed to be suitable according to IPX8 for dives up to 210 feet (about 63 meters).

When and if the Kindle Paperwhite in the waterproof version on Amazon Germany be available is, is not known. Full excluded it is not because other products Waterfi in this country are available.