When we reviewed the Kindle DX yesterday, we stopped short at ripping the ebook reader apart; after all, Amazon want it back, and probably in one piece. RapidRepair have had no such qualms, however, and promptly set to their own Kindle DX with a screwdriver.
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‘Kindle DX’ Stories
Amazon Kindle DX teardown
Amazon Kindle DX Review
Amazon’s Kindle DX was announced back at the beginning of May, but it’s taken until now for the first of the oversized ebook readers to reach buyers’ hands. The Kindle DX begins shipping this week, promising more E Ink real estate, more memory, and more file-type support on top of the Kindle 2′s existing Whispernet wireless and other features. Is bigger necessarily better? SlashGear put on our reading glasses and set to finding out.
The differences between the Kindle 2 and the new Kindle DX are obvious: a 9.7-inch E Ink monochrome display dominates the front panel, offering around 2.5x the space of the smaller ebook reader and squashing the QWERTY keyboard into tic-tac tininess at the bottom. Amazon has obviously worked hard to minimize the screen’s impact on the overall chassis, with mixed results. It’s a scant 0.02-inches thicker than the Kindle 2, at 0.38-inches, with a metal back-plate lending stiffness, but the left-side page controls have been dropped.
Make sure to click through for the full review, photo gallery and unboxing/walkthrough video of the Amazon Kindle DX.
Amazon Kindle DX shipping June 10th: first come, first served
Amazon have confirmed that the Kindle DX ebook reader will begin shipping on June 10th. Available to preorder since its announcement back in May, the Kindle DX features a larger, 9.7-inch E Ink display than the Kindle 2, and retails for $489.
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Color Kindle won’t launch for “multiple years”
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has suggested that a color Kindle will not reach the market for "multiple years". Speaking at the company's annual shareholder's meeting this week, Bezos told investors that he has "seen the color displays in the laboratory" but that they are "not ready for prime time". The CEO also suggested that sales figures of the Kindle ebook reader will never be officially released.
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Publishers hit Kindle Text-to-Speech kill-switch
Amazon have begun to implement a remote kill-switch that removes text-to-speech functionality from their Kindle ebook reader. A byproduct of the Author's Guild TTS controversy, the system allows publishers to disable text-to-speech on a title by title basis; as of this week, TTS has been removed from over 40 works including five of the top ten Random House best-sellers in the Kindle store.
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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 19 2009
We’ve had some much-anticipated and long-awaited gadgets land at SlashGear this week, so we’ve gone overboard with unboxing videos and hands-on galleries. The Verizon MiFi 2200 only had its official announcement earlier this week, but we’ve been waiting for the Novatel EVDO-hotspot for so long you must forgive us some excitement. Meanwhile the Vodafone HTC Magic has the honor of being only the second Android phone to the market, while the Tonium Pacemaker manages to offer something unique in a sea of PMPs.
Color e-paper launch delayed to 2010; large-screen Sony ereader in 2009?
Bad news for anybody hoping for PVI's color e-paper before the end of 2009, as the company has pushed back the launch until 2010 having encountered "barriers to achieving satisfactory results". To make up for the disappointment, however, PVI have tipped a larger ebook reader from Sony later in 2009, to compete with the recently-announced Amazon Kindle DX.
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Only 300 students to trial Kindle DX
Amazon's textbook push with the Kindle DX will kick off not only with a publisher partnership but in a headline-grabbing real-world trial at six partner universities. However according to information from one university exec, only around 300 students will be given the 9.7-inch E Ink Kindle DX to try out - and that's the number across all of the institutions, not at each.
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Sony releases Danielle Steel Limited Edition Reader
As you no doubt have heard by now, Amazon announced their latest ebook reader today called the Kindle DX, and now it looks like Sony snuck out a new product without too much notice. It's the same second-generation of the Sony Reader, but this one has a very specific focus.
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Amazon Kindle DX Video hands-on
After the official announcement we had the chance to go hands-on with the new Amazon Kindle DX, and despite the overall family resemblance it feels a very different device to the Kindle 2. Where that e-reader prioritizes the hand-feel and portability of a paperback, the Kindle DX feels decidedly more work-oriented. The bigger screen – which refreshes a little slower than that of the Kindle 2, but not frustratingly so – is 1,200 x 824 resolution and 150ppi, and while still grayscale feels far more useful than that of its smaller sibling.
Full Kindle DX live gallery and demo video after the cut
Amazon Kindle DX official images & specifications
The official images of the Amazon Kindle DX are out, and as you might expect it looks like an overgrown version of the Kindle 2. The specifications tell the full dimension story, though: the Kindle DX measures 10.4 x 7.2 x 0.38 inches, versus the Kindle 2 which measures 8 x 5.3 x 0.36 inches.
Kindle DX hardware specs after the cut
Amazon Kindle DX: $489 summer release
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