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During a media event on Thursday, Amazon revealed its latest Kindle devices. The Kindle?Paperwhite, one of those shiny new gadgets, is bound to give?Barnes & Noble's Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight a run for its money.
The Kindle Paperwhite?offers what is described as a clearer screen with a higher resolution than the good ol' Kindle e-ink?readers we know and love. "It's really so much sharper," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told a crowd of reporters.
In a video shown during Thursday's media event, an Amazon customer declared that the device is?"exactly what Star Trek promised" him. I don't know if I'd go that far, but after trying the Kindle Paperwhite out for a couple of minutes, I was impressed. Unlike the aforementioned glowing?Nook, the Kindle Paperwhite's screen is lit almost perfectly evenly. Either the environment in which I tried the e-reader?was ideal or Amazon figured out a secret that Barnes & Noble has yet?to grasp.
The Kindle Paperwhite is light as a feather ??if a feather happens to weigh 7.5 ounces?? and it is comfortable to hold. While I didn't spend a lot of time reading through the books Amazon had preloaded on the demo unit, I get the feeling the screen?wouldn't cause much discomfort even if I were to hold it for several hours at a time.
And speaking of hours, Amazon says that the Paperwhite gets 8 weeks of battery life. Which is over 1,300 hours.
The Kindle Paperwhite will be priced at $119 and ship on Oct. 1. A 3G-enabled version will also be available for $179 as well.
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Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/hands-amazons-new-kindle-paperwhite-983102
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