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How a Leather Cover Crashes the Kindle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-no-antennagate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon has started offering refunds to Kindle owners who own the unlit leather case who claim that it causes their Kindles to reboot, but are playing dumb on the cause: "our engineering team is looking into this." People have been wondering how a leather cover could possibly crash an electronic device, and why is Amazon offering money back if they don't think there's a problem? It seems that some of the folks over at Connectify have figured it out, and it's a doozy!"

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  1. He's got it all wrong by specialperson · · Score: 5, Informative

    First, his meter's reading 2 Megaohms, not 2 Ohms. I guess he's not much of an "Electronics Person". Second, it would appear that he's measuring conductivity though his body to achieve that number. Both of his fingers are touching the probe tips.

  2. 2 Ohm or 2 Megaohm? by Danh · · Score: 5, Informative

    The linked article at Connectify says they measured a resistance of 2 Ohm, but on the picture I read 2 MOhm!

    Check yourself with the large version of the picture.