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Amazon Launches First Kindle With Color Display [Updated]

mectojic said:
Kindle was first launched in 2007. First Kindle with colour display - 2024. That's 17 years.
Compare to Apple's iPod, launched in 2001. First iPod with colour display - 2004. 3 years.

Apple always innovates faster. Kindle should've had R&D on this years ago.
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How can you compare two entirely different technologies?
 
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I would love a colour kindle but pixel density is lower and so is battery life compared to Paperwhite.

I’ve traded in my Paperwhite towards the new model. It was £170 but got £64 off the price with trade in :D

I’ll wait for 2nd or 3rd gen Colour Soft kindle once they improve resolution and battery life. I got the first gen Paperwhite when it came out and it sucked. Need to wait for a few hardware revisions.
 
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Rafagon said:
I feel this is so redundant for anyone who has an iPhone or iPad. You can just get the Kindle app on your iDevice and read that way.
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Have you ever tried reading with the iPad in the dark, or under the sunlight?
And have you done the same with an e-ink reader?

It's a day and night difference. The eyes never get tired with a Kindle, and readability is also way better, especially under the sun.
 
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Le0M said:
Have you ever tried reading with the iPad in the dark, or under the sunlight?
And have you done the same with an e-ink reader?

It's a day and night difference. The eyes never get tired with a Kindle, and readability is also way better, especially under the sun.
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I hate reading books on my iPhone. It’s a great screen of course but e ink is much much much better for reading for hours or like you say in sunlight.
 
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Entilzha said:
Tell me you don’t understand the difficulties in adding color to an eink display without telling me you don’t understand the difficulties in adding color to an eink display.
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Eh. Apple could have innovated colour e-ink years ago, if they’d been in the market.
They did pioneer multi-touch and many other display technologies, even if they didn’t necessarily “invent” them.
 
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R & D on paperlike black and white without the eye strain doesn’t seem to be progressing much…the dpi seems too low?.?.?.?.
 
noraa said:
Kindle isn’t advertising the exact screen tech its using, but based on the DPI drop b/w B&W and color content, this appears to be Kaleido 3 based - which is a shame as wink appears to have solved a lot of the early issues with Gallery 3, which which is significantly better than Kaleido 3 at reproducing accurate and vibrant colors.

It should also be noted that the Remarkable Pro uses Gallery 3, so I doubt the Kindle Colorsoft will look as good as the Remarkable Pro.
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Its £269 vs £559 I would hope the reMarkable Pro looks better :p
Guessing the Scribe 2/Colour might use the same tech tho?
 
ThisIsMike said:
I’d be extremely curious how these compare to the ReMarkable, the newest of which has a color display AND the note-taking in a single device, which Amazon isn’t offering here.

This has been such a long time coming. It’s exciting to see color e-ink finally becoming good enough for mainstream products. As this matures further, it’ll be really interesting to see if Apple takes advantage of it. These displays would completely change the game in terms of battery life.
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Subscription model made the ReMarkable a hard pass for me. I bought the Scribe which has been one of the best tech surprises in years. I fully expected to be a bit of a novelty and returning it but instead it rarely leaves me. Home and at work.
 
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lcseds said:
No need to insult different users. eInk is not for supermarket or mass market fiction. Jeez, the hubris. Oh wait, you're an academic.....sorry. But you are correct, use what you prefer, just not outside.
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Whom am I insulting?

It’s not eink that’s the issue. It’s the size.

Long ago there was a much larger e-reader by a Dutch company I think called irex. The size was fitting for pdfs and heavy markups. https://www.cnet.com/reviews/irex-iliad-review/
 
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krspkbl said:
I hate reading books on my iPhone. It’s a great screen of course but e ink is much much much better for reading for hours or like you say in sunlight.
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Possibly true but I don’t read under the sunlight for long, not even paper books. Strains my eyes
 
It's a shame Amazon bought (and trashed) the Comixology comic app. A beautiful interface, great discovery, the ability subscribe / maintain a pull-list of your favourite comic runs.

A colour Kindle would be perfect for comics, but apple still need to (vastly) improve how they manage comics.
 
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This could well be my next iPad.

I've really gotten into using my (old, and long overlooked) iPad, especially after reading the hard cover omnibus edition of "Three Body Problem" at about 1400 pages in bed. I almost knocked myself out with "the brick of a book" a couple of times when slipping it... :p

Ironically, I just got the iPad mini 7 for my "colour reading needs", like magazines**, graphic novels, etc. so I won't upgrade the Kindle before it dies, but still nice to get a colour option from Amazon.

** Does anyone know if there's a Zinio reader for the Kindle?
 
iGeneo said:
Yes, I get the whole built for purpose screen.. great battery and minimal distractions, but the reality is that I'd rather just use my iPad Pro (11)
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Have you tried one, or is that just your assumption? I have a big but extremely light e-reader. I can hold it with a couple of fingers, so it's an absolute delight to read from. An iPad Pro is a different beast altogether. I use that for work, for note-taking, etc., but not for reading. Just the impact on the wrist of reading for long periods makes a world of difference, reading is a pleasure rather than a pain!
 
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krspkbl said:
do you still get software updates for it?
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My kindle, that I still use daily, is from 2014 as well. No it doesn't get update, but it doesn't matter. I can still access the kindle store, it still syncs, and I can still copy my own .epub files to I with Calibre. It doesn't really need updates.

I was never into comics or graphic novels, so lack of color isn't an issue.

Rafagon said:
I feel this is so redundant for anyone who has an iPhone or iPad. You can just get the Kindle app on your iDevice and read that way.
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No thank you. E-ink is superior to OLED or LCD for reading.
 
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