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Amazon's New Kindle Is Only $80, Comes In White, and With More Storage
Found the $290 Kindle Oasis too expensive? Amazon has a new, familiar e-reader for you. On Wednesday, the e-commerce giant announced a new, more-affordable Kindle that is pretty much identical to the Kindle Paperwhite, but costs only $80. It comes in white as well as black, and has 512MB storage space (the Kindle Paperwhite sport a 256MB internal storage chip). From an Ars Technica report:In addition to the extra memory, the $80 Kindle will have a slightly thinner, lighter, and more rounded design than its predecessors. It will have a touchscreen display as well, but it won't be the 300 PPI screen that the $120 Kindle Paperwhite has (it will sport a 167 PPI display instead). Some reports also suggest that the new Kindle will come with Bluetooth support so blind readers can hook up a pair of wireless headphones to listen to books, along with a note-sending feature that will let you send yourself messages and highlights, which can be exported as PDFs or spreadsheets.
No headphone jack?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
It has 4G if storage just like the paperwhite.
It does NOT have a screen light so it's not just like a paperwhite at all.
https://www.amazon.com/All-New...
So, to get this right:
- it's an update of the basic Kindle
- the "memory" referred to in the summary is the system RAM, the storage space probably remains 4 GB (but Amazon is not very good at supplying exact specs for the Kindle line)
- its screen has nothing to do with the Paperwhite's, it remains the same old 167 ppi, unlit screen of Kindle 4 vintage
- the touchscreen was introduced by the 2014 update, it stays the same
- the price also stays the same, $100 or $80 with ads
- it actually got a little lighter and smaller
Real life is overrated.