The Kindle DX has shipped earlier than expected. Here’s what some tech sites are saying:
PaidContent
First Look: Kindle DX: Bigger Will Be Better For Some
- It’s a very different experience from its older, but smaller siblings
- The ability to turn the Kindle and have the text move with it is a great addition. It offers portrait, lnadscape or it can flip to be read from either hand”
- [The screen] is crisp and the images in 16 shades of gray are as elegant as etchings.”
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Engadget
Amazon Kindle DX unboxing and hands-on!
- You immediately notice the orientation sensor, which is almost too sensitive.
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Wired
Exclusive: Supersized Kindle DX Makes E-Reading Easy
- Even more readable than the original Kindle.
- PDF support is a welcome addition
- Battery life is similar to Kindle 2
- Pivot mode has hair trigger
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WSJ (Mossberg)
The Latest Kindle: Bigger, Not Better, Than Its Sibling
- its size and weight made it awkward and tiring to hold for long periods of reading
- Amazon has degraded the user interface
- would have been a better product with on-screen touch controls
- some nice touches – a larger screen, about twice the storage capacity
- renders PDF files much more accurately than the older Kindles. That is a big improvement
- for standard books, I’d stick with the smaller, more comfortable Kindle 2
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CrunchGear
Quick Look: The Kindle DX
- beautiful and attractive
- full review on Friday
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