Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279
Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279
The company is refreshing its entire e-reader lineup, launching four new Kindle devices.
I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.
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There were already multiple such devices from competitors on the market last year.
Personal fazit: they lose in almost every area against a cheap tablet.
Except for the screen
There too. Low contrast and less bright than b/w e-paper and still suck more power. AMOLED is better for the eyes, even though it glows.
Eink is just better for reading though
Why do you say that amoled is bezter for the eyes? Is that also true for b/w e-ink?
No, i think e-ink has it's place. But color e-ink is currently too much a tradeoff in everything else e-ink is strong, imo.
Oh, OK. I just assumed color e-ink was just like bw e-ink but with colors and was similar in other aspects
It is
How so? Color eink has pretty much zero tradeoffs as far as i can tell, other than price.
Weak colors, so dark that you constantly need backlight...
Weak colors yes, but normal eink has no colors, and what do you mean by "so dark that you constantly need backlight..."?
Look for comparison videos between the color e-ink technologies.
Especially the screen, unless your only plans for the device involve lots and lots of static text. eInk has improved tremendously over recent years, but it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.
it still has a long way to go before it starts replacing LCDs and OLEDs.
I really don't think it's even trying to fill the same niche. No eReader is attempting to sell you Netflix. It's just an entirely different device.