Comments on: Thursday Poll: Interested in Any of the New Kindle Devices?

By: Benjamin Sicard

Benjamin Sicard — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:13:00 +0000

I have owned an e-reader and use Calibre to manage my collection of e-books. You missed the point that I made about epub being more feature rich than other e-book formats. That along with the fact that Calibre, however good a job that it does do, does not seamlessly convert books from epub to mobi.

By: Gregory L. Taylor

Gregory L. Taylor — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:28:00 +0000

I though it actually said “paperweight” when I read it!!

By: Ryan Quinn

Ryan Quinn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:51:00 +0000

^^this. Though I wish they had a 16GB version for $399… 499 is just too much.

By: Ryan Quinn

Ryan Quinn — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:50:00 +0000

I don’t think you’ve ever owned an e-reader, otherwise you would have heard of the blessing called Calibre and how it silently converts all your books from whatever format they are in to a format compatible with your device. http://www.calibre-ebook.com/

By: scott

scott — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:37:00 +0000

Nexus 7 or hopefully an Nexus 10 soon.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:59:00 +0000

The only hope for the Fire HD models is if and when they get rooted and custom Jelly Bean Roms are created for them. That would remove the lag and the gimped Amazon overlay that takes away all of the google apps.

By: Robert Jakiel

Robert Jakiel — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:44:00 +0000

After reading a bunch of hands on reviews looks like the “new” Kindles are no different than the old ones when it comes to performance. Amazon’s decision of using the OMAP 4470 and pairing it with a larger HD screen has done nothing at all in the realm of performance and UI smoothness. If anything they should have, at a minimum, used a quad core S4 or Exynos 4412. The price difference would have been minimal if any and would have yielded a far better product and user experience.

By: Lucky Armpit

Lucky Armpit — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:50:00 +0000

I told the wife about this yesterday as she has a Kindle (2nd-gen?) and she liked the idea of the Paperwhite 3G. I did notice, however, that the Paperwhite 3G has half the storage (2GB) of her current Kindle 3G (4GB), and is more expensive. However, the new one has the backlight as well as a touchscreen so of course there has to be concessions somewhere. Still, 2GB is like 1400 books or something crazy like that.

By: Gerret Walczak

Gerret Walczak — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:14:00 +0000

Particularly in reference to the Paperwhite devices, you need to start including an “Already own an older device, no need to upgrade” type option to these polls.

No, I’m not buying the new Kindles, but only because my current ereader is perfect for my needs. Not because I don’t think the device is totally bitchin’.

By: NexusMan

NexusMan — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:12:00 +0000

While there are several specs on the Kindle Fire HD versions that look great, no GPS, Jellybean and Google Suite of Apps like Play Store, native Gmail and Maps = FAIL…oh, and they sure are ugly.

By: Jeff Simpson

Jeff Simpson — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:49:00 +0000

hardwarelooksgood,pricelooksgood, softwaredubious.

ps, doestheSwypeautospacingfailforanyoneelseonthispage?

By: Mark Coppock

Mark Coppock — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 03:03:00 +0000

I’ll be getting the Kindle Paperwhite to go with my Nexus 7 and iPad 3. When I’m on the beach, nothing beats e-ink, and since Barnes & Noble no longer wants to support my Nook 3G, I’m switching to Kindle.

By: Bionic

Bionic — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:53:00 +0000

Nexus 7 is still better.

By: Robert Boluyt

Robert Boluyt — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:49:00 +0000

This is the full OMAP4470 with the SGX544. That GPU is more powerful than the Tegra 3′s, which looks pretty bad compared to Mali, Adreno 320, and the well documented SGX543MP2. I am much more interested in the Fire HD 8.9, though, admittedly, only if rooted and running an AOSP build.

By: Benjamin Sicard

Benjamin Sicard — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 02:08:00 +0000

E-ink is certainly the way to go for a real reading apparatus, so the Paperwhite might have been interesting to me, but it still doesn’t support the epub ebook format so it’s really just proprietary garbo. epub makes for a giant portion of available ebooks and it much more feature-rich than mobi. Cutting me off from that defeats the purpose of owning this since I’ll end up reading half of my books on my Nexus 7.

Fire runs forked Android and limits you to one ecosystem. The Nexus 7 runs an open faucet of awesome and allows you access to both Amazon and Google.

It’s staggering how much more capable a Galaxy Nexus and a Nexus 7 are together than any other tandem in the world of e-gadgetry right now. Amazon did nothing to impact that fact with these woefully limited devices.