Amazon Simply Launched a Coloration Kindle for the First Time

After years of manufacturing black-and-white e-ink readers, Amazon simply released a coloration Kindle, the Kindle Colorsoft. It shares all its options with the common Kindle, together with the identical distinction, page-turning pace, auto-adjusting entrance gentle, and weeks-long battery life. The one new growth is the addition of coloration. The Colorsoft is now accessible to order for $279.

Wanting on the photographs shared by the e-commerce big, I discover the colours on the brand new Kindle look very refined and muted (in the easiest way attainable). They don’t soar at you or come off as overly vibrant. I’m certain that is a part of the corporate’s efforts to maintain the general expertise of utilizing a Kindle straightforward in your eyes.

Your books will nonetheless seem of their normal black font on white paper, so what’s the coloration for? The colour will seem in three locations: guide covers in your Kindle Library or the Retailer, the photographs in your books, and new coloration highlights you’ll be able to add to your books and simply lookup later.

Amazon says, “Every thing about Kindle Colorsoft was meticulously designed to ship wealthy, paper-like coloration.” It makes use of an oxide backplane with customized waveforms for quick efficiency and encompasses a new gentle information with nitride LEDs. These LEDs work along with sure algorithms to ship wealthy coloration and brightness. In line with the claims, you’ll be able to zoom into photographs with out worrying about pixelation.

The brand new Kindle Colorsoft has an eight-week battery life, wi-fi charging, and waterproofness, so you’ll be able to simply take it within the bathe or to the seaside.

Amazon gave its Kindle lineup an enormous revamp with three extra modifications: a brand new Kindle Scribe providing a Kindle and a pocket book in a single system, the quickest Paperwhite Kindle but, and a brand new entry-level Kindle.

The Kindle Scribe comes with a Premium Pen for note-taking. The Pen has been designed to supply a pencil-like expertise with the identical heft, steadiness, and eraser tip. The Scribe’s 300ppi delivers a crisp canvas for jotting down ideas, making notes on high of guide pages, summarizing texts into bullet factors, and so forth.

Amazon’s best-selling Kindle, the Paperwhite, has additionally acquired some updates. It’s been given 25% sooner web page turns, which advantages the Kindle Library or the Retailer with a extra responsive expertise. It’s additionally been bumped as much as seven inches however remains to be the slimmest Kindle in the marketplace, with as much as a formidable three-month battery life.

A new entry-level Kindle has additionally joined the lineup in a beautiful Matcha coloration that I’m very tempted to get my arms on. Just like the Boox Palma, this one can simply match within the palm of your hand or slide in your again pocket. It lasts weeks on a single cost and options 16GB storage in your books.