Amazon today launched the Kindle Cloud Reader app. It allows you to read Kindle books without having to download via the web browser.
Amazon today launched its Kindle Cloud Reader App in Germany. Using the app Amazon customers can control their books from the Kindle Store on future tablet or smartphone without charging time via a web browser and read. The Reader allows online and offline reading books – without first downloading
The app also synchronizes the individual Kindle library of customer and noted last read pages, bookmarks, notes and highlights for all Kindle. Books, no matter what device they are read. The Cloud Reader runs on all major web browsers. As of today it is available here for Amazon customers.
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These are the features of the Kindle Cloud Reader:
access to Kindle books on the web browser
Auto Offline deployment currently read books
Automatic update of app features and software
Device-border access notes, highlights and bookmarks on other Kindle e-readers
Continue reading on all devices due to synchronization of the last read on the Kindle app or Kindle terminals pages
text search within a book by topics, persons or sections of text
Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari for iPad and desktop, as well as Internet Explorer (version 10 and upwards)
The web-based e-Reader application Kindle Could Reader is now available in Germany. Thus, Kindle books can now be read in any browser and on any device.
Amazon Germany is now offering the Kindle Cloud Reader App. So far, the free
e-reader app was only available in the USA. Now also Amazon.de customers can read all their Kindle books directly in the web browser, and thus also on almost any device. Assumes a modern browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer. The Kindle Cloud Reader is accessed via lesen.amazon.de. The Ebooks can in Kindle Cloud Reader both offline and also be read online. As with all Kindle apps, even the last page read, bookmarks, notes and highlights are synchronized for all Kindle books. “The Kindle Cloud Reader is a further milestone on our ‘Buy once, read everywhere ‘mission, “said Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Kindle EU. With the Kindle Cloud Reader reading pleasure go immediately go – without downloading and installing
The half year old first generation model of the Kindle Paperwhite has arrived finally on the Resterampe. Amazon.de sells customer returns now for 84 euros, so for all 45 euro less than the Kindle Paperwhite 2 A tempting offer.
New Kindle Paperwhite 1 is no longer get to now, most recently he was responsible for 99 € available. Now Amazon has the light-Reader as refurbished goods (“refurbished”), which is offered on a specific article page, cheapened to 84 euros.
Rebuilt and repackaged
The devices are cleaned before resale and inspected, equipped with the latest firmware and repackaged. They also have the same one-year warranty as new material, added of course comes the law securitized 14-day return policy.
In our forum, it is pointed out that one may need to make use of these returns procedure (discussion below). For Amazon Kindle and fought in the White Paper 1 nor with cloud formation as a result of the first built-in lighting. Just lots delivered in the first months of sales devices exhibited a non-uniform illumination and were sent back. The risk calculated to obtain such a device, go to a customer. Due to the uncomplicated return delivery can also be seen calmly.
Hardly differences to the current generation of devices
Compared with the 45 euro more expensive Kindle Paperwhite 2 has the first generation still an E- Ink Pearl display, talk a little worse contrasts. Also there is no e-ink shelf for zügigeres leaves with fewer necessary updates to the Bildschirminahltes. Firmware side, however, are the two model generations since March 2014 at the same level.
Just who wants to re-enter into the e-reading world, or at least in the Amazon universe, continues with the “old” Kindle Paperwhite awarded . For a significant discount to the current model there is an eBook reader that does not need to shy away from a half years after the launch compared to the competition.
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The article” Kindle Paperwhite 1 drops to 84 euros “was on May 28, 2014 (Wednesday) at 14:35 clock of written Johannes Haupt. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is the editor and publisher of lesen.net.
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This promotion provides abdominal pain: Shell to lure a Kindle reader as a loyalty bonus customers to refuel. But then someone discovered a chocolate chalkboard big loophole
Germany map in the supermarket, the Family Card in the furniture store. Many shops try to loyalty programs to retain customers. The companies promise a little and get discount for this valuable data on the purchasing behavior of customers: What type of customer buys when an how much? The keyword is called Big Data, before it horrifies some. Computers take supposedly the power and know in advance how people will decide.
That is the theory. Quite as intelligent data analysis can not be with the gasoline seller Shell. There seem to have a surprising number of customers participated in a loyalty campaign in which they had to collect 999 points to a Shell customer card. So reports the world , Shell has not yet responded to a request from Süddeutsche.de . For the 999 points the customer the Kindle Paperwhite would get the latest reader from Amazon, promised shell. The device costs 129 euros from the manufacturer. For 999 points must tap long the average customer. For every liter of petrol there is a point. Not just given, the Kindle. . Yet the many bargain sites on the internet discovered a chocolate bar big loophole
wanted
Because Shell promote the sale of candy, the Group called for a special action: the end of March, beginning of April there was a blackboard Ritter Sport 100 loyalty points on top of it, but only with the varieties “Whole Hazelnuts” and “nougat”, the service listed Mydealz. For 1.20 euros per table so the customer had to spend 12 euros to get to the required number of points for the Kindle. The page Schnäppchenfuchs.com grabbed it in the following heading: “Buy Ritter Sport for 12 euros and get free Kindle Paperwhite to”
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the end of April the unit was slightly more expensive. Then there was at Shell gas stations, two small packs of Mars, Twix, Snickers or Bounty for 1.50 euros – and just 100 collection points. So the Kindle cost 15 euros.
“The author has tried out in the Cologne”
liked so many gas station customers that Shell did not withstand their onslaught this Friday. At a special page on the Internet, they should exchange their points in Kindles. But that was almost impossible to achieve. This happens when a company does not reserve enough server capacity for the number of virtual visitors.
According world was the rush foreseeable. In the promotional period bounties were “sold out simply” at Shell gas stations, the newspaper noted. And: “The author has tried in the Cologne area itself and get no more.” It was only on Friday afternoon could Shell customers to click through to the Kindle premiums page. But there they are greeted by a yellow warning: “Unfortunately, these action premium is due to the large demand already sold.” The gas station company apologizes online that the page was not available. You have four times as many visitors had as usual starting point of the exchange action spent 10 clock, the
Kindle had been “completely redeemed after about three hours, although we have already held five times the amount of premium ready”. How many devices it were, the Group shares on demand not. After all, Shell now gets no legal hassles. The advertising team has the chocolate trick put a stop and think of the most important indication, as they have advertised the action: “Sold only while supplies last”
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Who wants to read books, the Amazon Kindle one buys. Or his challenger Tolino, the book by an alliance of providers (for example, worldview, Thalia and Hugendubel) and Deutsche Telekom is marketed. Both devices are top notch when it comes to paperless consume books
One thing that is me but much more interested as a passionate gamer. Can you actually gamble with it? I am the question – some might call them crazy idea -. Having a few attempts pursued
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First of all: If this is the talk of the Kindle or Tolino, I mean the pure eBook reader; So, for example, the Kindle Paperwhite or Tolino Shine – not the tablet versions! . Because with the latter, it is possible thanks to Android stores, as usual to load game apps down and use
There but for the “normal” Kindle and Tolino is no app stores, one wonders: As one comes to games? The answer is trivial: not at all. For both readers only offer access to the corresponding eBook stores. Apps or the like is not here. Only digital books galore
Although -. Provides an exception to the Kindle. For him, in 2010
small applications, “Active Content” have been called summer, available. It also includes a few games such as “Solitaire”, “Sudoku” and even a version of “The Settlers of Catan”. The crux of the matter: The Kindle games while there are in the U.S. store from Amazon, but not with us. To date, no.
detour via the browser
If you can not download games as it looks with online games? After all offer Tolino and Kindle browser with which you can roam through the Internet. But only limited. So the browser can for example – not play Flash content – unfortunately common for mobile devices like today. Since most online games are based on this still very popular technology, so they fall through the cracks
Luckily, there are indeed a quasi-sequel to flash:. HTML5. Derlei content process the two eBook browser. But here comes the next downside is that most games are designed kunterbunt, the two readers can but only black and white and a few shades of gray represent. The result is a muddy representations that reveal almost nothing. Add to that that the e-ink screens are extremely slow. Fast processes are not possible
HTML5 instead of Flash, no colors, as few movements -. Closes 99% of all games from. A handful remain there only remains. For example, “Sudoku”. That would actually be perfect to play on Tolino and Kindle, as it exactly meets the desired requirements. ! Pustekuchen
I’ve tried some HTML5 “Sudoku” variants on several websites – but almost all have failed in my test. The reason: They are not adapted to the peculiarities of the eBook reader. Either they offered but too many colors to wish the operation left a lot (the numbers could be difficult or impossible to enter) or the few screen changes (we’re talking still of “Sudoku”!) Overwhelmed the devices. At the end I could only play one game somewhat – namely the “Sudoku” from “Time Online”
My sobering conclusion
Yes, I know: eBook reader called eBook. Reader way because we can read eBooks perfect. Not any more. But I was simply itching in the fingers, at least to elicit Tolino Kindle and some gaming capabilities. The result was unfortunately the same as feared: negative. It’s a shame
Shells bonus program with the opportunity to exchange a Kindle Paperwhite low for rewards points, ended in a shitstorm because the servers have not withstood the onslaught. Finally, it was said that the e-book reader is out of print. The action was a public relations disaster for Shell.
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As part of the card and rewards program Shell Club Smart has the oil company offered its customers the Kindle Paperwhite free if they collect 999 points. For motorists would actually have to fill up 999 liters of petrol or diesel, but also with chocolate bars worth 15 € the number of points could be achieved. The White Paper is priced at 129 Euro Amazon regularly
Given the enormous savings attracted the offer clearly more interested in than originally expected by Shell. The chocolate bars were for experiences of Golem.de in some Shell petrol stations sold out . The large response to the action remained Shell not hidden – the company claims to be ordered according to Kindles, so that 10,000 units were available, which could be exchanged on May 2, from 10 clock online against the points. . Originally it was planned that the Kindles can be picked up at the gas stations
The run on the web server of the
bonus program held the infrastructure was not: even if it managed to interested parties to put the premium into your shopping cart, they could in many cases the order can not send it. Three hours later, according to Shell, the quantity ordered was out of stock. According to shell out more hits were recorded 40 times than usual.
“mockery and malice in the network”
The disappointed bargain hunters vented their anger on Twitter and Facebook air and showered the group with scorn and malice: So Dirk O. imagines how the shell-message could be in an incident on an oil rig: “This oil drilling was so successful that we did not catch as much and were loaded onto ships.” Shell referred to the action as “extraordinarily high success” .
Shell had recommended to also take a look at the other premiums. Helga K. says:. ? “Why should I take a look into the premium catalog for 999 points I get 3 bottles of water and a sausage”
Richard Tee has a lot of time invested in order to get a Kindle “I was released today taken all morning and sat 4.5 hours and thus gets updated if you not even one silly Amazon voucher, which is sad. …” Shell offered next to the Kindle and a shopping voucher to
Dirk S. sees the action soberly. “In the order in which the action was advertised, in my view, (a) the technique according to prepare and (b) have been expected a rush on the basis of existing and new customers. “And Shell? The reacted to Facebook comparatively late. A dangerous maneuver in the social media area. The company apologized
But not all the comments on Facebook directed against Shell “We’re very sorry that not everyone could come into play.”. Some also shoot against those who are upset about the missed Kindles: “And what if something really serious people, you make yourselves ridiculous” , Volker S. thinks, for example, and Tobi G . replied a user who missed out:
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Sales of the Kindle Fire is not as expected in Germany. With its Kindle e-book readers, but Amazon is satisfied.
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Amazon’s first tablet, the Kindle Fire products are, “started comparatively more slowly” in Germany . That said Jorrit Van der Meulen, vice president of Amazon Kindle Europe, talking to Golem.de. In Germany, the Amazon tablets have been around one and a half years on the market.
A background discussion with the Kindle-Europe chief, in which he speaks relatively open in a Düsseldorf hotel rooms about the product line, is something new. Amazon wants to be open about new products in the future a little more and act not as secretive as ever. The world’s largest Internet retailer are not traditionally sales figures for its own e-book readers, tablets and other hardware known. The media rely on the estimates of analysts. In the UK, the demand for the Kindle Fire was much better, even better than in the U.S., Meulen said. In the e-book readers, the manager is very satisfied with the sales figures, “in Tablets, we are still at the beginning,” . Whether Amazon really prepared its own smartphone, Meulen may of course not say. How many Kindle hardware developers Amazon deals is also a secret. “But it happens a lot in the Kindle building” says Meulen. The Kindle Development Department at the headquarters of the U.S. group is an area that should not even enter any Amazon workers. Only members of the Kindle team had the smart cards for the inputs. Amazon sells the Kindle Fire HD 7 to prime customers by 50 euros cheaper. This costs the cheapest model with 8 GB memory and commercials 79 euros. The versions with 16 GB and there is no advertising on the lock screen cheaper by 50 euros.
Amazon Kindle Fire is actually no more than a vehicle for content and apps. Amazon wants the reader-tablet mix but expand into a whole new direction: as a work tool. CHIP spoke exclusively with the freshly baked Devices Manager Dave Limp about his plans. Above all, a month-long customer survey should have been initiated the creation.
“Our customers want the Kindle Fire simply take in the work, they continue to work without interruption or device change,” said Dave Limp, vice president of Kindle devices on Amazon. “Our Workplace scenarios for this are indeed still in planning, but we have found that many things we posses, and can seamlessly continue to use,
especially Whispersync, the background syncing for music, video and other content, for example.” He was a kind of laboratory animal itself. “When we had the poll results a few months ago and knew where to go long, my Kindle was one of the first through the hard audit of internal IT department,” he said. “I have just inquired with my boss, how can I use the Kindle in the corporate network, like any other office workers,” he told
The Kindle bring to today’s state already holds for everyday work with. Microsoft Exchange support, e- mail hub functions, support for the company’s intranet and corresponding browser qualities, calendar functions, and the Kindle is VPN-capable and support encryption. Well, Limp, it is up to future partners, what the Kindle will add learn next. “Our customers have shown us the way, as many of them are already using the Kindle as a full working tablet.”
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Amazon Kindle Fire will be the shopping cart, the customer should use it for buying everything he needs – of course in the ‘One-Stop-Shop Amazon ‘. “Our Amazon Kindle Fire is a vehicle for our content,” admits Dave Limp, vice president of Devices at Amazon talking to CHIP. “At the same time it should assert itself among all the gadgets out there and just as good, if not better than the tablets the same collar size.” In order to compete against the iPad and other tablets, he relies on services and openness.
Interestingly, followed Amazon’s devices division the approach seamlessly allow all content and formats opposite to remain neutral. Thus, the resultant of E-book readers Kindle Fire could be a kind of “Switzerland of the tablet contents.” Limp said it this way: “I quite flirtatious with the fact that the Kindle Fire a kind of shopping cart in the One-Stop-Shop Amazon could be – with me, of course it is clear that this is difficult to achieve, but we
try to convince our customers differently.. is about by every single device preset the Library and the settings of the customer and having a part thereof book from an old Reader on the new device transmitted without the digital bookmark is lost, “he said.
The same attempts, the Group also has a TV-series and videos in the relatively new service Prime, who is currently a month after the start, around 15,000 content offers. Again followed Amazon’s new devices boss’s approach to make the customers as easy as possible and also to allow them to put the Kindle Fire once out of hand, “Follow the owner of the content – this is our motto Kindle,” so limp. “Clients must provide their contents, especially for video, can consume on any other device on seamless.”
This openness is to be expanded under him, so he responded to the question of the comparatively thin, own app store Amazon fairly left. Limp: “Our strengths lie elsewhere – our devices and services recognize each customer at any time, anyplace, to treat his information confidential and behave completely like a good salesperson.”
The Stiftung Warentest has made Android tablets dedicated in its new issue 6/2014. Because has been tested in different categories, can feel three vendors as the winner the same: Samsung, Lenovo and Amazon. Also for the Tolino Alliance there is reason to rejoice.
three categories Tablet Test
The Tester Foundation Warentest total of 15 units have been studied in three categories. Whole twelve tablets cavort in the sub-8 ,9-inch class. Winner of the “little ones” is the Lenovo Yoga tablet 8 3G (test score of 2.1), which has been praised for its strong battery, very bright screen and the clever design with stand and carrying handle. A “good” also received the HP Slate 8 per 7600eg (2.2), the LG G Pad 8.3 (2.2), the ASUS MeMo Pad 8 (2.3), TechniSat TechniPad Mini (2.3), the i . onik TP7.85 3G (2.4), the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Lite 3 3G (2.4) and the Acer Iconia A3-A11 (2.5).
Best big Android Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE Pro
the class from 8.9 “accounted for only two tablets. Test winner here is a 1.7, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 LTE Pro, which brings impressive 2560x1600px to be bright display. Also, camera, processing power and battery life dropped to positive. Was It is also the only device in the test field with the latest Android 4.4.
With 2.3 also rated well the Tolino Tab 8.9, whose model brother Tolino Tab 7 we had in the lab. The Stiftung Warentest liked the strong battery and the good display for a relatively low price (199 euros). In a separate category, the Kindle Fire has been tested HDX 8.9. The device, there are currently as a prize in our Birthday Contest, got the bottom line a 1.9. Optimum in display and battery are deductions from the versatility against because Amazon is well known, relies on its own app store instead of Google Play
Tablet Test result:. Good equipment from 200 euro
from early 200 € you get good tablet with altagstauglicher computing power and ordinary displays, accounted for the Stiftung Warentest. Ultra HD displays and quad-core processors have a price. It should be noted here, however, that the testers whenever possible resorted to the LTE model and have not always found the best street price. So the winner Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Pro will multiply the heavy price of 575 euros Scrappy -. Without LTE module (and with Samsung instead Qualcomm CPU) is the ten-incher whopping 200 euros cheaper compared
Overall, the test results have failed as expected. The good Test score for Tolino Tab 8.9 is the sales that so far reportedly been very mau failed (not for nothing was the machine reduces soon after its launch of 249 euros to 199 euros), perhaps to boost again. It is a pity that neither the Tablets Kobo (Arc), nor the thought of PocketBook way into the test labs
The article” Tablet test of Stiftung Warentest: Good marks for Kindle Fire HDX and Tolino tab “was on 23 May 2014 ( Friday) at 15:15 clock by Johannes main written. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is the editor and publisher of lesen.net.
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Amazon Kindle Fire is actually no more than a vehicle for content and apps. Amazon wants the reader-tablet mix but expand into a whole new direction: as a work tool. CHIP spoke exclusively with the freshly baked Devices Manager Dave Limp about his plans. Above all, a month-long customer survey should have been initiated the creation.
“Our customers want the Kindle Fire simply take in the work, they continue to work without interruption or device change,” said Dave Limp, vice president of Kindle devices on Amazon. “Our Workplace scenarios for this are indeed still in planning, but we have found that many things we posses, and can seamlessly continue to use,
especially Whispersync, the background syncing for music, video and other content, for example.” He was a kind of laboratory animal itself. “When we had the poll results a few months ago and knew where to go long, my Kindle was one of the first through the hard audit of internal IT department,” he said. “I have just inquired with my boss, how can I use the Kindle in the corporate network, like any other office workers,” he told
The Kindle bring to today’s state already holds for everyday work with. Microsoft Exchange support, e- mail hub functions, support for the company’s intranet and corresponding browser qualities, calendar functions, and the Kindle is VPN-capable and support encryption. Well, Limp, it is up to future partners, what the Kindle will add learn next. “Our customers have shown us the way, as many of them are already using the Kindle as a full working tablet.”
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A round, gray-black thing: The Amazon smartphone (image: bgr.com)
Amazon’s in-house smartphone is now surfaced on a true to the original design. So far, the smartphone was only seen in a protective case.
by Andreas Müller on 01.05.2014
The Amazon Smartphone will complement the Kindle Fire tablet, the online marketing company (we reported). For the newer and more reliable leaks around the smartphone is bgr.com responsible. The American online magazine already published true Leaks about the Kindle Fire HDX tablets. On the new Concept design of the BGR Amazon smartphone can now be seen without using the sleeve. Although this is not a photo, is the created with a graphics program image match the original. Supposedly, Amazon itself works with the concept image. As expected is thus similar to the cell phone the Kindle Fire tablet with a design black and gray . Instead of the corners and edges of the HDX Tablets falls the Amazon smartphone rather curvy and offers rounded edges.
Back on the smartphone can be seen above in the middle of the Amazon logo. It is located behind the left camera with LED flash. Supposedly there is a 13-megapixel camera . Five forward more cameras are mounted at the corners. One is the usual front camera for Selfies. The other cameras are actually four infrared camera sensors , and they capture the viewing direction of the user. So they put the contents of the display viewing angle-independent in 3D and will produce no additional glasses is required. The display measures 4.7 inches and offers a resolution of 1,280 x720 pixels . For the performance ensure an unknown Snapdragon quad-core processor (probably a
Snapdragon 801) and 2 GB RAM .
BGR also reports a” Prime Data plan “. The designation is based on the streaming service Amazon Prime, which allows the streaming of films and videos for a great price compared to the competition. The Prime Data plan is to offer mobile internet for smartphone for a monthly price . An additional amount of free quantity of data for the video and music streaming with Amazon’s own services is apparently also provided. Like the Kindle Fire tablet is delivered the mobile phone with the Amazon Amazon’s own operating system Fire OS . This does not allow access to the Google Play Store. The user must be limited to the apps in Amazon’s app store.
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