http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for Amazon Kindle DX unboxing and hands-on! 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/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/
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Personally I would rather have a dedicated device like this that feels like a book as opposed to just having a computer screen with the tech.]]>Jun 10th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/
I travel a lot, I read a lot and I often need to bring a collection of heavy books with me. No netbook solves my problem... I was happy to shell out $500 for my Kindle DX.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/
quag, I did not say that Kindle is crap NOR netbooks can do the same so stop being upset. My point was that Kindle will be less and less attractive when we will see netbooks which cover some of the key features of kindle. This is not some 2 years down the road maybe, this is 2009 Christmas time.
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The Kindle is totally worth $500 (to me) because of the convergence of three key features (1) form factor/user experience approximates reading a book or magazine (2) there is a massive amount of content (300,000+ books, my hometown newspaper, etc) all available seamlessly and wirelessly (3) it's an appliance; ie I will never be expected to dick with low level settings, reinstall the OS, update drivers, etc.

Even if Amazon ships a Kindle app that works on netbooks, a $500 Kindle DX is still a better value to me than a $250 netbook. I am happy to spend more for a true "electronic book" with a thriving ecosystem and a device that "just works." A shrunken, underpowered notebook computer is not at all interesting to me.]]>Jun 10th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/
I imagine that since when we put it down it'll be at the orientation that we were holding it as there's nothing to sense in terms of direction -- unless we put it down and turn it around or something...

]]>Jun 12th 2009 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/I looked up all of my next semester's textbooks on amazon, and there are ZERO kindle versions.
I have yet to see ANY textbook on the kindle.]]>Jun 10th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/that's already happening. There's lots of pdf books floating around out there.]]>Jun 10th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/> "There are strong rumors, however, that Amazon will be launching a more targeted textbook "store" come July 1."

At least they will be doing it before school starts... unlike other manufacturers who launch new hardware and computers in October.]]>Jun 10th 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/It's the size of a magazine. Come on. You can stick tons of those
in the front pocket of an airplane seat.

@russlar:
Yes, the case is $49.99. The two year warranty is
horrible, especially seeing that it's $109.99 and you already get a 1
year warranty.]]>Jun 10th 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/.]]>Jun 10th 2009 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 10th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/Jun 11th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
http://www.readius.com/

I would prefer the readius but it's not out yet ...


I never tried any of those (and the kindle is not even sold in my country) so I cannot know which one is best, I just give information, in case someone was interested.

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(a) The price - it's way too high. Seriously, Amazon, you've got a masterpiece on your hands and folks like me who love eink technology will definitely want to get one for themselves, but $489 and you don't even throw in a decent cover for free! Come on, you guys can do better than that.
(b) The storage - it's way too low and it's embedded in the device. Now guys, what were you thinking. Before anyone jumps on me, let me state that I want this beauty to read my Java Developer Journal magazines in PDF format. Some of the issues are over 30 MB. Not to mention, I've got several computer science and software engineering text books in PDF format and many of them run several MBs. I can't figure out why Amazon didn't design this beautiful gadget with an SD reader like the Sony PRS-505. SD cards don't cost a lot and I could easily earmark one card for fiction, one card for magazines and say two cards for my textbooks. Seriously, Amazon, please reconsider adding an SD reader when you come out with Kindle DX II.
(c) I read somewhere that PDF documents can't be resized i.e. you can't jack up the font size on PDF documents. I'm not sure if this is true, but if it is, Amazon, you'll lose some of the older audience that is in love with this beauty. Older folks with weaker eyes, will definitely want the ability to resize fonts on PDF documents.

Other than these gripes, I've long craved for a gadget like this that can read technical PDFs like computer science textbooks without messing with diagrams. My PRS-505 natively reads PDF but the smallest font size on A4 documents is unreadable and resizing the font to medium (the PRS-505 only offers 3 font sizes) totally trashes diagrams in PDF documents.

I seriously hope Amazon addresses these issues. I don't know if other readers feel the way I do.]]>Jun 12th 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/10/amazon-kindle-dx-unboxing-and-hands-on/After reading your review I was surprised how useful the keyboard was not really for typing but for hunt and peck its great. Are your hands really small?
I am surprised at the poor access to the internet. It seems after so long your access is terminated and you have to return to the kindle store for them to turn the wireless back on.
Its easy to read mail in gmail but is very difficult to send mail from gmail and also difficult to use google reader.
The text to speech is surprisingly better that how it sounds in the advertisement. Don't get me wrong it could use several updates so as not to sound like a robot but its ok.
You will want to set it in a stand after a hour but compared to a laptop its very light (even with the cover).
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