Amazon has not released Kindle Voyage on the Canadian market. It is a rather strange situation: the best ebook reader the Kindle line is on sale in the US from October 2014 and the latest models, including the new Paperwhite 3, are available from Day One in the same country. What is behind it?
A study published yesterday by the-ebook-reader.com explains what is blocking the distribution of Kindle Voyage in Canada. The Canadian government, or better, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office , the patent office to put it as in our country is still undecided on accepting or not the patent Amazon dedicated to the use of the haptic feedback (haptic feedback, request number 2750759). And it is something that has been going on since 2010.
Kindle Voyage is the only ebook reader from Amazon to integrate the buttons to change the page on the edge of the frame. No mechanical buttons, but they respond to pressure (also quite precise and determined) with a slight vibration. It’s a little ‘what happens with certain smartphones and tablets, where it has a vibration when you press the HOME button or typing on the keyboard.
It is this similarity with features that now take for granted not to convince the Canadian government . The documents show that not arrive approvals or blocks is the first request of deposit (2010) is the most recent (January 2015) required just for the green light to Kindle Voyage.
How will it end? Hard to think of a modified version of Voyage specification for Canada. Haptic feedback is a unique feature in the field of eReaders, and is one of the strengths of the top range of Amazon like the light sensor or the magnesium chassis. All this is interesting in future perspective: What we will have on Kindle 2 Voyage? Finding an alternative, perhaps similar to the Tap2Flip eReader Tolino?
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