Kindle Paperwhite Begins Shipping Today. SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN)–Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the all-new Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite 3G begin shipping today. Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever constructed with 62% more pixels and 25% higher contrast, a patented built-in front light for reading in all lighting conditions, uncompromised battery life of up to eight weeks, and a thin and light design. Kindle Paperwhite WiFi + 3G is the top of the line e-reader and offers the same new design and features of Kindle Paperwhite, with the unparalleled added convenience of free 3G wireless—never pay for or hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Customers can order now at www.amazon.com/kindlepaperwhite. “The Screen Makes It the Best E-Reader Yet” “Kindle Paperwhite is the most advanced e-reader ever created and the Kindle we always wanted to build,” said Jay Marine, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. The reviews are in: “So, do all of these features add up to the best e-reader out there?
Kindle Paperwhite - Touch Screen Ereader with Built-In Light. Hands on with Amazon's new Kindle e-readers. A year ago, I walked away from Amazon’s Kindle event thinking that the e-readers shown off there were merely mild, lazy, and ultimately disappointing refreshes of existing models. That wasn’t the case Thursday following the latest round of Kindle unveilings. I had a chance to delve into the new $119 Kindle Paperwhite and its $69 sibling, still simply called Kindle and was impressed by what I saw. In contrast to last year’s tepid crop, this year’s Kindle models make E Ink-based e-readers exciting again.
And they leave the competition behind on several metrics. On display For starters, let’s talk about that catchy name—Paperwhite. Any and all improvements in the display are frankly less evident when the Paperwhite’s light is off than when the light is on. Amazon says it spent four years working on the engineering behind its front-lit approach to illumination. The Kindle Paperwhite is the first e-reader with a capacitive touch screen. Sizing up the Paperwhite Final thoughts. Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite explained in new video. Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite technology is in high demand, and the online retailer wants consumers to know how it works. The company has released a new video explainer. Kindle Paperwhite, which Amazon introduced earlier this month, has generated strong interest.
Consider this: Amazon’s flagship e-reader, which starts at $119 but is also available in a 3G version for $179, originally was supposed to ship on October 1 but now if you pre-order one it won’t ship until the week of October 22. No wonder—it’s a pretty impressive gadget. The front-lit display offers adjustable brightness, and Amazon says the technology makes it just as readable in direct sunlight as in the dark. The Kindle Paperwhite also offers eight weeks of battery life with the light on, it is thinner than a magazine and it has a sharper screen than previous Kindle e-readers. The Kindle Paperwhite uses a 212 pixel-per-inch (ppi) 6-inch display, which results in 62 percent more pixels than before. Kindle Paperwhite. Kindle Paperwhite technology explained by Amazon in simple video. Amazon has released a video showing their team of engineers that've worked on the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite explaining the technology that makes it a top of the line device in the e-reader universe today.
What you've got here is sharpness and brightness enough to view in many conditions - but it's more than that. Because it's not optimal to look at a book with the area around the letters shining brightly directly into your eyes, the Kindle crew here has turned the whole show on its head, shining light from the side of the screen across it, down toward the display through a reflecting film layer just 0.5mm thin. The light you've got here around the rim of the display is captured and reflected across the face of the area you're looking at. This area is called the Light Guide - it's nanoimprinted and acts like a fiber-optic cable, blasting light through itself and down towards the capacitive touch screen instead of up at your eye.