Kindle Review – Kindle Fire Review, Kindle 4 Review

Here are 100 word reviews of the most interesting eReaders

Kindle 2

Focused on reading. Amazon’s great hope.  

• $259 Kindle 2. 6″ Screen. eInk is great for reading.
• 360,000 Books. Browse from Kindle. Wireless Downloads.
• Easy to Use. One Handed Reading too.
• Free Internet in the US. Built-in Dictionary. Free Wikipedia.
• Thin and Light. Great Battery Life. Text for Speech too.
• Wireless in 176 countries. Free English Wikipedia in half.
• Expand – Kindle for iPhone. Kindle for PC and Mac to follow.

8.5 stars. One of the Best.

Nook

Barnes and Noble’s entry.

• $259. 6″ Screen. eInk too. 3.5″ Color Screen with Book Cover Flow.
• Android. 500K Google books that are free. 500K from B&N that are not. 
• Share (Once). Most Formats - ePub and PDF in-built.   
• WiFi and 3G. No Browser though.
• Micro SD card. Replaceable battery.
• Nook for PC, Mac, iPhone, Blackberry.

 8.5 stars. One of the Best.

Apple Slate/ Apple iReader

Apple’s 10″ Tablet/iReader/Slate. All Rumors .

1. 10″ LCD screen. iPhone OS. 
2. App Store Apps. Reading Apps like Stanza, Kindle for iPhone, and more.   
3. Will look like an iPhone on Steroids.
4. Newspaper Deals. Magazines and Books too. 
5. Nov 2009 or Jan 2010 release.
6. Apple gets 30% from Publishers.

Unrated.  

Kindle 2 US (Refurbished)

Stay at home Kindle.

1. $219 Refurbished Kindle 2. 6″ eInk Screen. Identical to the prior Kindle 2. 
2. This one is on Sprint. Doesn’t travel well. No Whispernet outside of the US. 

8.5 Stars. One of the Best if you spend your time in the US.

Sony Reader 600

Sony’s new Touch Reader.

1. $299 Sony Reader Touch Edition. Perhaps the prettiest eReader of 2009. 
2. 6″ eInk Screen. PDF and ePub.
3. Library finder for free ebooks from your Library.
4. Touch and free hand drawing too. Buttons are hard to get to.
5. Touch affects readability so see the video. 
6. Compact with no keyboard. Great Battery life.  
7. Half a million, perhaps a million, free books from Google.

7.75 stars. Right behind Kindle and Nook.

Kindle DX

The Large Screen Kindle.

1. $489 price.
2. 9.7″ eInk Screen. 1200 by 824 resolution.
3. Supports PDF – not notes and links in PDFs though.
4. Rotates with an accelerometer.
5. More Memory than Kindle 2. Larger Font Sizes.
6. Goes International in 2010.

7.5 stars. A good first effort. Waiting for Version 2.

Sony Reader 900

Arriving in December. Sony’s first wireless download enabled eReader.

1. Sony with wireless. $399 price.
2. 7″ eInk Screen with Touch. Hopefully it avoids the touch curse.  
3. Library Finder. The Million Free Google Books too. 

Unrated. Might be the real deal if they can avoid the touch problems.

Plastic Logic Que

All in the Air.

1. Price not disclosed. Targets business so might be more.
2. 8.5 by 11 inches makes it the largest screen so far.
3. Touchscreen with gesture based navigation.
4. Barnes & Noble provides the bookstore – in more ways than one.
5. Wireless network based on AT&T.
6. Their own technology means unbreakable eInk screens.

Unrated. Release Date is Jan 7, 2010 at CES Las Vegas.

Sony Reader Pocket Edition

The budget Sony Reader.

1. Sneaks in at $199.
2. Amazing Contrast on the 5″ eInk Screen. Check the Sony Pocket videos.
3. Super portable – very small (all screen) and great battery life.
4. PDF and ePub.

Would actually give it a 8 – great value for money.

Closing Thoughts

That’s 9. Perhaps will add more.

Prediction for 2010 – 6 to 9 million eReaders sold.

1. Amazon Kindle 55%. 
2. Apple Slate – MainStream Users. Eats away 10-20% of eReader Market due to that.   
3. Sony Readers – 20%
4. Barnes & Noble Nook – 15%. 
5. Que and Remaining – 10%.

Kindle will still have 70% or more of eBook sales because it got all the most valuable ebook customers early on.

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