http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for Amazon Kindle DX first hands-on (with video!) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/But the battery won't last that long. For $500 I can get UMPC-tablet that will do just fine - it doesn't have a very long-lasting battery but it can do web, youtube, flash, videos, games ect ect ect all for the same price.
Now, if I already had a tablet PC and $500 to throw out in the window (like last year's spring), I'd really be interested in DX.

Good product but wrong time or price policy, IMO.]]>May 6th 2009 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
All the books i read have pictures in them. :)]]>May 6th 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Listen, there are plenty of folks that would pay 50c to 75c (even $1.25) for access to their local news paper. And guess what, you will save ass loads on printing and paper costs too. NOW GO MAN, GO! It’s the best you’re gonna get until flexible OLED becomes more widespread. So stop crying (and don’t even try the “tax payer bail out route”) and CLIME ABOARD THE KINDLE EXPRESS!!

PS Australian Pirates are not allowed on the Kindle Express until version 2.0 when they preload BS detection software. Just sayin ;^)...]]>May 6th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/1. $99.00 2 year contract (subsidized).
2. Customer pays (monthly, daily, weekly) for the paper subscription of their choice
3. This will be applicable to papers that YOU (Amazon) have as part of the program
4. The customer can also pay some agreed to rate $0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00 for each paper.
5. You (Amazon) on the back end (and to recoup the subsidy) charge a fee to each paper
6. They will gladly pay it since there will be substantial printing cost savings.
7. Lastly, what choice do they (failing newspapers) have? It’s a way to stay alive!

What you get is a subsidized device with the failing newspapers GLADLY picking up the subsidy. (a) Consumer is happy - $99.00 Kindle DX (b) Amazon is happy - since they will probably move Millions of units (3) The newspapers are happy - because they get to stay alive and transition into the digital age. EVERYONE IS HAPPY, THERE IS NO DOWN SIDE!!!]]>May 6th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/Once you get out of elementary school that will change.]]>May 6th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Wh@T? It is painful enough to watch people running around with bluetooth headsets! Imagine them holding kindles to their heads LOL.]]>May 6th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/]]>May 7th 2009 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
I think Amazon is talking a page from Apple's ebook.

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What i don't get is why people aren't more mad that they only just released the Kindle 2, and now it's being superseeded already?]]>May 6th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
but I think the ultimate dream is one device that does everything. If we get color e-ink displays with fast refresh, then we'll be close - very close ]]>May 6th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
@ story contributer: There are alot of grammatical errors in your story.]]>May 6th 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Come on - is it that much of a pain in the ass to recharge your netbook once a day? Yes, 3 to 4 weeks of battery charge sounds nice, but is that really your tipping point? I mean, we're so connected these days and near power points all the time, you'd have to camping in the forest to make that argument (anyway, we should be looking into solar cells to trickle charge the batteries and extend battery life).

The netbook argument makes sense, but the Kindle makes the whole process of downloading newspapers a lot easier for mainstream (ie. non-tech) users, which I think is the key selling point here. But if you're sufficiently tech savvy and the newspapers allow you to download an entire newspaper to your netbook, it is a worthy substitute when you factor in the price. So right now the Kindle is a good option, but not necessarily a no-brainer.]]>May 6th 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 11th 2009 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Get rid of wireless, drop the memory down, add sd expansion, remove txt to speech, add textbooks.

In short I was expecting the student version, not a newspaper version.

Oh, and if they plan on putting ads in the paper, or on my kindle 2 version of the paper, i'm canceling.]]>May 6th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 14th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 7th 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Yet another person who doesn't have clue one as to what they are talking about.

I understand EXACTLY what it can it can not do. It's a nice device and I'm as happy as anyone to see this technology developing, but the Kindle is still too small and the non-color display really hurts it as a replacement for the college books and newspapers it wants to replace.

What I do NOT understand is why it gets so much coverage on this site.]]>May 6th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
Talk about clueless.]]>May 6th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
I was obviously referring to your assessment of me. Maybe you can use your Kindle to download a book on reading comprehension.

And no, I haven't read ANY books on it. I had an lengthy hands on experience with at my local bookstore, and was left very unimpressed, at least for the price.

Happy for you it fits your needs, don't hate on the people for whom it doesn't.]]>May 6th 2009 11:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
How exactly am I trolling for that matter?

Have you always been this dumb?]]>May 6th 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/
I don't think I said that I understand it fits a LOT of people needs. As a matter of fact, I don't think it does at all, unless ALL you are going to read are paperback novels on the thing.

Amazon is marketing the Kindle as a replacement for newspapers and school text books. Last I checked, neither of those are printed in only black and white anymore, and they certainly aren't only 9". Keep in mind with newspapers come ads, so imagine just how much screen will be left for the actual stories.

The Kindle needs a minimum 14" screen (8/12" x 11") and at least 256 colors for it to be a viable alternative to textbooks and newspapers. Get rid of the flickering when turning pages, too.

Engadget's coverage of this thing has been way overboard. This device only covers an extremely small niche in the world of gadgets. I understand running a story here and a story there on it, but 2 or 3 a week for the last 3 or 4 months? What's next, are they going to create a dedicated blog site for it?]]>May 6th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/06/amazon-kindle-dx-first-hands-on/May 6th 2009 2:25PM