Oh, snap! Merely hours after Barnes & Noble
came out swinging with a $149 WiFi-only version of its Nook and a price-reduced $199 3G
Nook, along comes Amazon to rip a massive hole in B&N's billowing sails. As of this very moment, the $259
Kindle 2 -- complete with global 3G and the 6-ink E Ink display you've come to know and love (or hate) -- is now the
$189 Kindle 2. Oh, and there's also free 2-day shipping. Looks like the undercutter just got undercut, huh?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted June 21st 2010 3:39PM
an ipad with. Piqelqi display would be nice instead
@pishmish
An iPad with a lower price would be nicer.
an ipad with. not weighing 25 pounds in your hand when all you want to do is read a book would be nice instead.
6-ink E Ink display?
@Mister Warmth Believe me, The medical books I have are much heavier than the iPad's 1.5 pound weight.
@Techno1q
Believe me, I can read longer with a real book than the iPad.
E-INK FTW.
@pishmish
An iPad with flash would be king.
@Drago Let's see how long it goes without correcting...
@Paul Elmy
Obviously you dont know the reason behind eInk. Ipad is a HORRIBLE book reader. Its like reading on a computer which is bad on the eyes. ONLY eInk works well indoors and outdoors for reading.
@Paul Elmy
Obviously you dont know the reason behind eInk. Ipad is a HORRIBLE book reader. Its like reading on a computer which is bad on the eyes. ONLY eInk works well indoors and outdoors for reading.
@ivallt Once more, with feeling.
@Best Spammer in the World Period
Ok Engadget team. Let me tell you how to get rid of this guy.
1. Prepare banhammer.
2. Buy bigger banhammer.
3. Buy Chuck Norris.
4. Have Chuck Norris roundhouse kick spammer.
Why did you need the banhammer? Chuck Norris is the replacement... Its old tech.
@SolidSnake Well we could have used Metal Gear Rex to take care of the spammer, but seems somebody had to blow it up.
@Mister Warmth you can hold 15 iPads in your arm and it won't weight more than 25 pounds.
@SolidSnake What about Chuck Norris WIELDING the huge Banhammer?
@Paul Elmy
Not if all you want to do is read
@Paul Elmy awwwwwwwww, come on. i just bought a kindle us and inter. wireless 2 weeks ago!!!!! oh welllll
@pishmish
an ipad with unlimited data plan would be nice
@King of Smartphones You should be able to get a price adjustment. I recommend contacting Amazon customer service.
Oh Snap! This thing is looking better and better every day. I wonder if I can justify to the wife an EVO 4g and a Kindle in the same month...
@O Say you got it for dad and that he doesn't want it.
@O not a chance...he he
@O
Just tell her you won it in a truth telling contest two towns over.
/simpsons
@Rjbuddyboi I think you're right. I can just imagine the conversation.... "You paid how much for it? And it does what? Let's you read books??? Are the books free? Oh hell no! You wanna read books that bad, get a stinking library card!"
@O
Check to see if you can update your wife to iOS 4.0.
@O The real question is, can you justify your wife if she'll come in the way of your tech addiction?
@brahmachari99 until a piece of tech comes along that will cook for me, make love to me, help raise my children and provide a second source of income WITHOUT the accompanying social stigma of human/tech relationships I'll stick with my wife...
@O
You can get alot of ebooks out of librarys nowadays....overdrive.com... :)
Haha. Burn.
@LightShow More like Amazon got caught off guard and hurried to change prices to maintain competition.
No burn from Amazon, more like a half hearted comeback.
Good, amazon have been sitting happy for too long, competition driving down prices!
@NizP thank god for competition...without it where would cell phones and processors be...
@NizP
I'm waiting for the Nook 3G to go to 150. then Amazon will release a Kindle 3 for a sweet price of 130. Then i can justify the ereader lol
@NizP The Kindle DX is still EXTREMELY overpriced though.
@NizP
Happy as I am to see competition working, this still makes Amazon look like that one asshole on The Price is Right. You know the one... the type that just has to bid one dollar below or above the person that bid before them.
@Cash9007
Only morons bid one dollar below.
@Cash9007
You mean the asshole that wins?
Damn, BnN! You gonna take that?
@sweet greggo
Yeah! Fight back! Do I hear $129?
@sweet greggo I wonder how well sales even went for the Nook... how can they compete against amazon's kindle with the free 3G world wide? And the move by amazon to drop the price same day is just beyond hilarious!! haven't seen a move like that in quite a while by any company, made my day!
Yay competition.
If someone knows, which is better for viewing webpages? I know neither is necessarily great, but just as a basic capability, who wins here?
ooohhhhhhhhhhhhh snap!
A 6-ink E Ink display? I'll take it!
@Best Spammer in the World Period
$500 or $189? amazon FTW
E-readers playing limbo!
"Yo Barnes, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Amazon has one of the best readers of all time. One of the best readers of all time!"
@Sax25
That joke got old a really long time ago.
@badtzwang He was joking?
@Sax25
Its i''mma let you finish. Get your memes straight.
Crap! I want one now!