Posts Tagged ‘Product Reviews’

Leak: Amazon Kindle 2 Pictures and Pricing

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Official-looking pictures and pricing of Amazon’s Kindle 2 e-book reader have been leaked on the Internet. The information surfaced on a forum late last night and reveals a thinner Kindle but without the speculated price increase. Amazon is expected to officially announce the Kindle 2 during a press conference on Monday.

Improvements in the Kindle 2 design bring a thinner footprint, a metal back plate, and stereo speakers. As I mentioned last October, when the first Kindle 2 pictures surfaced, the design cues bring back memories of the first Apple iPods. As usual, the information is purely speculative but the forum reads that Kindle 2 will be available on February 24 for $359.

Just another coincidence? Left: Amazon Kindle 2 marketed as thick as a pencil; Right: Apple iPod Nano (1st Gen) with its pencil counterpart.

Kindle 2 features rounded corners, a black and white screen (apparently the same size as the original Kindle), a 3.5mm headphone jack with a sliding sleep button at the top and a unified QWERTY keyboard under the screen. Smaller navigation buttons are placed on both the left and right sides of Kindle 2. A joystick now replaces the original Kindle scroll wheel.

Amazon’s new Kindle will use the same EV-DO wireless technology for over-the-air downloads as the original. Storage-wise, Kindle 2 is said to come with a 2GB on-board memory. Form the leaked pictures, no SD card slot can be seen but my guess is that there will be a way to expand Kindle’s memory – maybe a microSD slot.

Leak: Amazon Kindle 2 Pictures and Pricing – PC World.

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Business, Mobil Computing, Science & Technology, internet | 1 Comment »

Calendar
August 2010
M T W T F S S
« May    
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
Categories
My Communities
My Sites
Archives
Topics
RSS Kierkegaarden
  • July 31
    “…More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all — in order to become the public, that abstract whole formed in the most ludicrous way, by all participants becoming a third party (an onlooker). This indolent mass which understands nothing and does nothing itself, this gallery, is on [...] […]
  • July 30
    “If it is to be possible that a man can will only one thing then he must will the Good…To will only one thing: but will this not inevitably become a longdrawn-out talk? If one should consider this matter properly must he not first consider, one by one, each goal in life that a man [...] […]
  • July 29
    “So they sat in their quiet sorrow: they did not harden themselves against the consolation of the world; they were humble enough to acknowledge that life is a dark saying, and as in their thought they were swift to listen to see if there might be an explanatory word, so were they also slow to [...] […]
  • July 28
    “The object of faith is the reality of the teacher, that the teacher really exists. The answer of faith is therefore unconditionally yes or no. For the answer of faith is not concerned as to whether a doctrine is true or not, nor with respect to a teacher, whether his teaching is true or not; [...] […]
  • July 27
    “Now in case a man were able to maintain himself upon the pinnacle of the instant choice, in case he could cease to be a man, in case he were in his inmost nature only an airy thought, in case personality meant nothing more than to be a kobold, which takes part indeed in the [...] […]
  • July 26
    “Adversity doesn’t just knit people together but elicits also that beautiful inner community, as the frost forms patterns on the windowpane which the warmth of the sun then erases.” ——————————————————– ~Source: The Journals (1835) Author: Søren Kierkegaard Filed under: Blooms Tagged: The Journals […]
  • July 25
    “If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat ‘on principle’ his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action would become charged with importance–it is not improbable that it would result in the formation of a society. ‘On principle’ a man may interest himself in the founding of a brothel [...] […]
  • July 24
    “And now consider Him, who is eternally unchangeable — and this human heart! O this human heart, what is not hidden in your secret recesses, unknown to others — and that is the least of it — but sometimes almost unknown to the individual himself! When a man has lived a few years it is [...] […]
iLike
Connections
Contributions
View my FriendFeed
Connect with me!
Seeing the World!
Blog Network