Anyhoo I know it’s not android but I thought I’d do a quick review on it, now I’m admittedly not much of a reader but lately I have been downloading samples to the kindle app on my Milestone and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading them so getting a free kindle has been a nice bonus and incentive for me to read more.
1st impressions of the device is its very smart, very lightweight and mostly a pleasure to use, I say mostly as there are a few floors/niggles that bug me but I’ll get to that shortly.
Now the very 1st thing I did with the kindle was hack it, That’s right I needed to get rid of the default wallpapers, their very nice but also a bit pretentious and dull and you only need to see them once before your bored so after a bit of Googling I ended up here howtogeek.com jailbreak your Kindle for screensaver customization and within 5 min I was hacked and after a bit of photoshopping I had my own wallpapers.
Now to the device itself, I named this article "Can’t Touch This" because it’s taken me a while to get used to not touching the screen! Due to the way things are with tech nowadays I want to touch everything “ooh er!” seriously I often find myself tapping my laptop screen before remembering its not touch sensitive, Oh and there was the time I tried to unlock the house with the remote key for my car!! Umm ok let’s carry on shall we, I don’t really understand why this device couldn’t have a resistive touchscreen, that’s right I said resistive! It doesn’t need a fancy fragile, expensive capacitive one, just a basic resistive one. I find the page buttons at the side a little too easy press whilst holding the device and although I’m a fan of a physical keyboards, when you need a symbol or a number you have to press the (Sym) button then choose from an on-screen menu, seriously amazon we’ve had multi-purpose keys for a while now that’s what the Alt key is for! also the lock button feels a little awkward on the bottom of the device, Another issue I have is the lack of a backlight, now I know many people would disagree but I don’t mean a bright backlight, I mean just enough to look like the page is being illuminated by a small lamp so I can read in the dark whilst my girlfriend snores..........I mean gently slumbers! Also the keyboard could benefit as it’s almost impossible to use in a dimly lit room, now I know you can buy a leather cover with built in light that plugs into the side of the kindle but ITS £50!! Yeah I’m not paying that.
Right lets be positive, I think the screen is great, yeah I would like colour to read comics etc. but that tech's not ready yet and as it stands it’s a great screen, very good contrast and looks as good as printed word, also the page turn/refresh is great, very quick and I look forward to reading many books on this, the device also has speakers and I have to say I’m very impressed with the volume and quality of the sound they can produce, although the music player is in the extreme Beta if not Alpha stage, when I played some Disturbed through it I was very surprised with how good it sounded, I also tried the Stephen Fry audiobook and his dulcet tones were reproduced very well.
All in all I give this device 8/10, it’s probably the one of if not the best eBook reader available and whilst I think the tech has got further to go I’m very impressed with the device from amazon.
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