And then suddenly Barnes and Noble and Kobo both announced
new touchscreen ebook readers in the same week, and Amazon countered with a new $ 164 ad - supported Kindle 3G to add to the mix since their $ 114 Kindle WiFi has been such a success.
Not exact matches
Amazon UK has exclusively told Pocket - lint that it will not be selling the
new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, nor the
touchscreen - enabled Kindle Touch
ebook readers in the UK as things currently stand.
The
new model, which ditches the keyboard but doesn't include a
touchscreen, is designed to make reading your
ebooks even cheaper and that's clearly gone down well with would be Kindle
readers.
That makes it very hard to directly compare the screen with other
ebook readers to get a feel on overall screen contrast and clarity with the
new HD screen and the fact it has not one but two layers over the screen — the frontlight light guide layer and the capacitive
touchscreen layer.
There's an article over at Digitimes about E Ink, the company behind the display technology used in most
ebook readers today, sampling out two
new color
touchscreen electrophoretic displays to their vendors.
Kobo's
new touchscreen - enabled
ebook reader may actually beat the
new Nook as the best dedicated
ebook reader.
At its press conference today, the vendor introduced a
new Kindle Touch for $ 99 — a small E-Ink
touchscreen version of its four - year - old Kindle
ebook reader.
PocketBook's four
new E Ink
ebook readers include the PocketBook Pro 602 and Pro 902 and the upgraded versions with 3G and Wacom
touchscreens, the PocketBook Pro 603 and Pro 903.
I came across a
new touchscreen - equipped Ematic ereader on Walmart, model EB103, that shares a similar design to Sony's
eBook Readers, although it has a color LCD screen instead of E Ink.
Until other companies like Sony and B&N and PocketBook release something
new with better features — a
touchscreen, color, open software — the Kindle 3 / Kindle WiFi is hands - down the best value for an
ebook reader.
Also the Nook
Ebook Reader will not have two panels as previously rumored, but one panel with a color
touchscreen at the bottom of the e-ink display (see close - up pic above), and it introduces a
new standout feature, called lending.
There's also a
new touchscreen iRiver
ebook reader available in parts of Asia called the iRiver Cover Story.
The
new Kindle Fire is more than a tablet — it's a Kindle with a color
touchscreen ebook reader, all
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Amazon's
new Kindle Fire represents the company's first device to move beyond black and white
ebook readers and into the realm of apps, music, videos and magazines, delivered using a color
touchscreen.