Meh, The Nook Color has always had a great community on XDA. I'm going to wait and see what the rumored Nook Color 2 has to offer.
Their app store had 4000 applications at launch, which was six months ago. I'd hardly consider that "very limited." While that's no Android Market (with 200,000+), the Amazon store was hand-curated, and thus has few to none of the trash apps which make up majority of the former.stanleyopar2000 said:well of course I know that..but you're pretty much limited to whats in the Amazon App store..and not all developers go through there...so you're very limited...Reading ebooks on the Kindle Fire is what the fire does best..and I want something that does more than reading ebooks "best" but like others have said $200 is quite low for a tablet...but if only it had more features ._.
Another World said:from what i've read and been told by tech support, this is not in addition, this is the 4th version of the kindle.
They have just announced TWO new Kindles (a "regular" one and a touch version), both of which are e-ink. They are being released alongside the Fire. The OLD Kindle (the newly named "Kindle Keyboard") will no longer be supported after a transition period one would assume. They will of course keep supporting the products they have literally just annouced.
QUOTE(rehevkor @ Sep 29 2011, 12:10 AM) The $79 kindle comes with ads btw, it's $109 without. I couldn't tell from the website if the UK £89 Kindle has ads or not. I hope not.
Another World said:from what i've read and been told by tech support, this is not in addition, this is the 4th version of the kindle.
the kindle is one of the best ebook raders i've used. have you tried to read with a fully back lit screen at 2am? there is a reason the e-ink display is superior for book readers. i see this advancement as going in a direction i am not happy with, because i don't like multitasking applications. its fine that amazon wants to make a tablet i just don't want them to stop making new versions of the e-ink display ebook reader.
i've already contacted tech support and they stated that updates for the original kindles should last another 2 years. it isn't all bad but eventually that next bug fix or updated feature will be for their tablet and not their ebook reader.
personally, i find it ridiculous that a vast majority easily accept change and don't complain.
i also really love the kobo, it has some features the kindle does not (like directory sorting). the kobo 1 has recently been dropped from the update schedule. the kobo wifi is also on the way out. users are fighting to compile a wish-list of firmware revisions before they exclusively move onto the touch. the kobo tech support informed me (on 3 occasions) that the kobo wifi will get 1-2 more updates and then all support will be dropped. moving onto a new 'feature filled" version has brought with it more problems and less fixes. again, this is something i do not want to see happen to the kindle.
is the future so bright that e-ink displays will have no part in it? will we eventually have only two choices, a tablet or a cheap chinese knock off e-ink ebook reader?
-another world
Urza said:Pay 20 more for the touchscreen.Hanafuda said:I'm a lot more excited about the standard wifi Kindle at $79. That's awesome.
There's no reason to buy the 79USD model.
prowler_ said:Android can already support Flash, GuildyGuild McCommunist said:I'm no tech expert so I'm wondering if this would be able to support Flash. That'd be pretty sweet.
Guild McCommunist said:Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-accelerated browser that uses a "split browser" architecture to leverage the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Supports Adobe® Flash® Player.prowler_ said:The specs are fairly decent, 1GHz dual core processor and 512MB RAM, should work fine with Flash. Provided Amazon support it, which I see no reason for them not to.Guild McCommunist said:I'm no tech expert so I'm wondering if this would be able to support Flash. That'd be pretty sweet.Android can already support Flash, Guildy
I thought it was rather dependent on the specs of the system.
EDIT: Just found this on the Amazon product page:
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SifJar said:QUOTE said:Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-accelerated browser that uses a "split browser" architecture to leverage the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Supports Adobe® Flash® Player.
So yes. It does support Flash.