Thursday, September 18, 2014

The new Amazon Kindle – The Post

Amazon unveiled Kindle Voyage, a new version of its popular ebook reader screen with a more defined, and new editions of its Fire tablet, with the cheaper models that start at 99 Euros. The new product line will be put on sale in the coming weeks, in time for the holiday shopping season: it is usually the most profitable for Amazon, which sells its Kindle directly through its website. While ebook readers have long been a huge success for Amazon, the tablet until now have struggled to assert itself over the competition: this partly justifies the choice of the company to sell a new version is very low in the vicinity.

Kindle Voyage
Amazon has completely revised its Kindle Paperwhite, which until today was the most advanced model of their e-book readers and the first to have a screen much clearer and defined compared to previous versions. Voyage is thinner, smaller and less heavy Paperwhite and has a screen with a resolution of 300 pixels per inch, which helps make it much more readable texts even when you are choosing small size for fonts. Amazon has also improved the contrast, so that the darker the letters to make them stand out better than the white background.

We have also improved the lighting system of the screen, which takes place through a series of LED placed along the edges of the display. Unlike Paperwhite, Voyage has a sensor that detects the amount of surrounding light to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen, so as to make the reading less tiring and save battery. When you read in the dark, the system progressively reduces the brightness, as he eyes adjust to the darkness. The option of self-regulation of brightness may still be excluded if you prefer to set the screen manually.

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Amazon has also worked extensively materials, trying to make the new Kindle looks nicer and more practical to hold in hand. The screen for the first time is protected by a layer of glass, worked so as to avoid that produces reflections, is therefore not shiny or reflective as that of smartphones and tablet. The commands can be activated by touching the screen directly, but there are classics buttons along the edges to go to the next page or return to the previous one’s own ebook. In reality it is not real keys, but sensitive areas to hold your hand. A slight vibration is emitted from Kindle Voyage understand that when you want to turn the page (this option can be turned off).

The new Kindle Voyage will go on sale in October in the United States at a price of $ 199, and should be available in other countries later this year at a similar price. Do not replace Kindle Paperwhite, which will remain for sale at a price of $ 119.

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Amazon has also introduced a new version of the basic Kindle, its e-book reader classic. It is faster thanks to a new processor, it has twice the space to store files, but mostly he finally got one touch-sensitive screen of the fingers, which replaces the previous navigation mechanism impractical to insert text and move around within the various menu. It goes on sale at a price of 79 euro, 59 euro, but you can have a version “with special offers”, ie with advertisements displayed on the screen, but not while you’re reading the page of an ebook.

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Fire HDX 8.9
The new version of the tablet’s most important Amazon is essentially an evolution edition presented last year, so as to not even be different in design. The device is lighter than its predecessor, but thanks to a more powerful processor 2.5 GHz Qualcomm that has particularly improved the yield with respect to the graphic. It has been improved the system’s audio device, a feature on which Amazon has focused too much in the previous edition, while the screen has the same resolution as last year’s version (2560 x 1600 pixels). How about Kindle Voyage, has a new management system for automatic screen brightness. Amazon says that the tablet offers up to 12 hours of continuous use. It goes on sale in the coming weeks for the price of 379 euro for the 16GB WiFi version with commercial offers, the more expensive model is 549 euro.

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Fire HD
Amazon has revised its tablet cheaper by creating two versions of Fire HD, one with a 6-inch screen and the other a little bigger with 7-inch display. Each version is available with different colors, but the most interesting thing is probably the price: the smallest model costs 99 euro, the other starts from 139 euro. Both use a type processor quad-core 1.5 GHz with a good yield of the graphics, which according to Amazon is three times higher than some of the competition tablet like the Samsung Tab 4 The materials they are made of the devices are of average quality and the smaller model is quite often compared to the other tablets that are out there, but considering the price it is a good compromise for those who do not yet have a tablet and I want to start to use one to see how it is.

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Fire HD Kids Edition
Confirming his interest in the sale of products that can be also used by children, big users of applications and games usually on their parents’ tablet, Amazon has created a children’s version of his new Fire HD, which costs $ 50 more (for now only in the United States), thanks to which get a one-year subscription to all digital content for kids sold by Amazon, a rubber shell colored and very soft to protect the tablet and some sort of comprehensive insurance on Fire HD for two years, Amazon will replace all tablet damaged by children more restless at no additional cost.

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Fire OS 4″ Sangria “
The operating system of the tablet from Amazon has been updated to a new version, which is called Fire OS 4 “Sangria” and that, like its predecessors, is based on a variant of Android, the Google operating system . The operating system gives priority to fruition than the creation of new content to its default applications are mainly used to access the catalogs of digital content from Amazon. You can then start in a few moments playing movies, music, and download an ebook to read. Of course there are also applications for reading email, surfing online, and access to social, while other apps can be purchased and downloaded from Amazon store. The new “Family Library” also allows you to provide your own content to other members of his family, at no additional cost. On the tablet you can also set custom profiles so that each Fire HD can be used by more people.

The philosophy of Amazon is selling their devices at low prices, often profitably over little or nothing, for then have large revenues due to the consumption of purchased content on tablets and on ebook readers. This system has worked well for the Kindle, which are the most common reader and purchased in the world, while for the time worked less for the tablet. With the new prices and the many offers to get more content, Amazon hopes to have given sufficient incentives to get more people to buy its devices.

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