Monday, June 22, 2015

Kindle Voyage, the new ebook reader from Amazon – Fastweb.it (Blog)

Lighter and with a display with 300dpi, it offers users many new features

A higher resolution. A new backlight technology. One way to turn the page completely changed. A new font for a clearer reading in any situation. These are some of the innovations and improvements made by the Amazon Kindle, probably the most successful product of the company created by Jeff Bezos.

Already in October 2014, the giant of ‘ ecommerce in the United States he had launched a new version of the Kindle Paperwhite and a new model, which aims to restore the standards of excellence in the field of readers of ebook . It’s called Kindle Voyage and since June 2015 is also sold in Italy.

Kindle Voyage

The main features of the new ereader Amazon are, in part, those gà listed at the beginning of the article. The company that is owned by Bezos, in fact, worked? hard? on the experience of reading users, trying to improve it further than the standard current. The results are immediately visible.

Kindle Voyage

  • Display and display . The Kindle Voyage is equipped with a new electronic ink display 6-inch and resolution from 300dpi , a little less than double the old model of the Kindle Paperwhite. This will allow you to view text darker and sharper: the goal is to give users a visual experience as similar as possible to that of paper books. The glass with micro-incisions? invisible to the eye? It was adopted for the same reasons: Amazon plans should eliminate glare from exposure to direct sunlight and provide a tactile sensation similar to printed paper. This is not the only news about the display of pages: a new backlight system, accompanied by a light sensor, should make it enjoyable reading even in the dark. The adoption of a new font created ad hoc by technicians Amazon, the Bookerly , should improve the reading of the texts in all conditions of visibility

The new font Bookerly

  • Design and size . While not bringing big news, the Kindle Voyage manages to stand out from its predecessors (the Kindle is classic, both Paperwhite) also in design. The new ebook reader Amazon, in fact, is the most compact, thin and light of the family: the 6-inch screen is enclosed in a frame of 162×115 mm, with a thickness of just over seven millimeters. The weight is very low, compared to the past: 180 grams for version only Wi-Fi, 188 if it also adds 3G module. Both the design and size make it resemble more the Kindle Fire (Amazon tablet) that its predecessors

Kindle Voyage

  • Time P agina . Among the various features introduced by Amazon it is also turn pages, as leaves widely guess the name, is connected to how the selection of the page to read. This new technology will allow to change the page without the need to remove their fingers from the dall’ebook reader: in the long sides of the frame, in fact, there are pressure sensors that evaluate any changes in the intensity with which it touches the device. With a pressure more pronounced (the user will be able to choose whether to increase or decrease the sensitivity of the sensor) the user can scroll up or down the book, so as to reach the desired point. The Kindle Voyage respond with a small vibration, so as to return a feedback touch the reader

Kindle Voyage

  • interface . Few news? almost nil, to be truthful? as regards the interface of the Kindle Voyage. Very similar to that of the Paperwhite, is optimized to provide the reader with the best user experience possible: choosing the book, you will enter the text without having to wait much and without other elements in catch . Pressing on the upper or lower display touch will be able to access the controls and menus of the Kindle Voyage

Kindle Voyage

  • Battery . Despite the injection of pixels and functionality, the Kindle’s battery Voyage acts all in all good. In normal use, a single charge can last for more than a week: of course, not to the levels of Kindle original , but the backlight, the screen Touch and the various sensors scattered along the body (pressure and brightness, to name just two) increase the power consumption of the device

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