All the rumors about the new digital book reader from Amazon, they were true. The new Amazon Kindle 2 has just been announced in New York and finally be able to compete with the new Sony PRS-700.The selling price in the U.S. will be USD $ 359.
Features:
• Physical Dimensions: 8 "x 5.3" x 0.36 "(25% thinner than an iPhone 3G) with a weight of 10.2 oz
• Screen 6 "diagonal with E-Ink technology, 16 shades of gray resolution of 600 x 800 pixel at 167 ppi.
• Audio output of standard 3.5 mm
• USB 2.0
• The new battery can be used with EVDO active for 4 consecutive days or two weeks without the use of EVDO. This equates to a 25% longer compared to the original Kindle.
• 2GB of storage, which equates to 1,500 full digital books. 7 times more memory than the first version.
• 20% faster when compared to the Kindle page above.
• New function "Whispersync '(synchronizing silent) that lets you synchronize multiple devices wirelessly.
• New function "text to speech" that literally "reads the text aloud.
• Supports the following formats automatically: Kindle (AZW), TXT, Audible (version 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively.
• Supports the following conversion formats: PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP
What at first sight surprising, is their new design which is far less harm than completely retro-revolutionary design of its first incarnation.
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