The Kindle 3 is really good and it also helps highlight the amount of progress possible in a single eReader generation. Here is my Kindle 4 wishlist. Kindle 4 – Features that would be really, really valuable Speech to Text, Voice Notes, and Voice Commands - Kindle 3 should have the microphone enabled and let users [...]
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Mr. Bezos was talking about the Kindle 3 on the Charlie Rose show and mentioned that having a touch layer disrupts readability because it adds glare and reflects objects. However, there is an easy solution for adding touch without disrupting readability that Amazon should consider for Kindle 4. IR sensors can be used to give Kindle 4 [...]
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Update: After further inspection this new J. Bezos patent sounds like the basis of a completely new gesture based Kindle OS that skips the need for touch completely. Probably meant for Kindle 4 or Kindle 5. Read the details and it’s hard not to think that it’s cooler than touch. Do hope there’s still the keyboard for longer text [...]
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James McQuivey has an impressively impartial article on Kindle vs iPad at Paid Content. Here is the main thing he says – Round 1 goes to Apple. if Amazon comes out swinging, Round 2 will go to Amazon … for Round 3 and beyond, Amazon’s success will depend on it introducing a full-color, full-media, touch device that [...]
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We haven’t heard anything about Kindle 3 and when, if ever, it’s going to be released. However, Qualcomm have just come up with a folding device design that would fit Kindle 4 perfectly – As a bonus the patent already talks about a dual screen book mode. Amazon ought to license the design or perhaps [...]
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