Amazon Kindle DX with 9.7-inch electronic paper display
Amazon introduces a powerful reading device in the form of Kindle DX that lets users view ample of content on its large 9.7 inch electronic paper display. The device can store up to 3,500 books with its 3.3 GB memory.
The large electronic paper display of Kindle DX consisting of more than 16 shades of grey, has greater space for graphic-rich content like professional and personal documents, newspapers, magazines and textbooks. The display purges eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays by using real ink and avoiding any backlight.
“Personal and professional documents look so good on the big Kindle DX display that you’ll find yourself changing ink-toner cartridges less often,” said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com. “Cookbooks, computer books, and textbooks – anything highly formatted – also shine on the Kindle DX. Carry all your documents and your whole library in one slender package.”
The in-built PDF reader facilitates reading without panning, zooming, scrolling or re-flowing the document. Users can read their documents by simply mailing it to their kindle mail account or connecting an USB.
Auto-rotate capability of the device helps the user to view complete landscape views of pictures, graphs, maps, tables and web pages. One can also flip the device to use it with either hand.
Kindle DX is one-third of an inch with 3G wireless connections. The user need not hunt for a PC or WiFi hot spots to use Amazon’s Whispernet, do wireless shopping in Kindle store, read from the library or download content in less than a minute.
The device syncs content across Kindle, Kindle DX, and Kindle for iPhone, (other devices in the future) using Amazon’s Whispersync technology and the reader can move from device to device without losing his reading space.
The New York Times, The Boston Globe and the Washington Post newspapers are about to start offering Kindle DX connection to their faraway readers where home delivery is not available. This will be provided only to the readers who sign up for a long term subscription to the Kindle edition of the newspaper.
Kindle DX has all the features of Kindle and besides wirelessly sending and receiving documents, one can look up for a word in the 250,000 word Oxford American dictionary, add bookmarks, notes, highlights and use six different text sizes. Users can also convert a written word on the page into a spoken word using text-to-speech technology.
Kindle DX is available for preorder at $489 through amazon.com/kindleDX and is said to ship this summer.
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