Of course, the keyboard is difficult to use when the DX is upside down! You can rotate the display upside down to move the buttons to the left side (the joystick reorients itself when you rotate the Kindle DX- nice). This may annoy those who regularly use the left side buttons on the Kindle 2, but as a leftie, I always use the buttons on the right. The page turn buttons are only on the right side (the Kindle 2 has them on both sides). The numbers share keys with the top row of letters, so you must hit the alt key to enter numbers (a minor annoyance when using the go to page/location feature). The keyboard area itself is smaller, so that the device could be as small as possible. While the Kindle 2’s are round, the Kindle DX keys are rectangular and smaller. Like the Kindle and Kindle 2, the Kindle DX has a QWERTY keyboard, and like those two, it can’t complete with the better QWERTY-phone keyboards on the market. Lastly, the Kindle DX has an improved web browser, though it’s not so fast and full-featured that you’ll be hankering to give up your cell phone’s data plan. The accelerometer is sensitive but not overly so, and you can disable this feature if it bothers rather than helps and use a menu to switch orientation instead. The Sony models require a button press to rotate, while the Kindle DX has an accelerometer so you need only turn the ebook reader to rotate the display. The Kindle 2 can’t do this, while the Sony Reader 505 and PRS-700 support landscape mode. The Kindle can rotate to landscape mode (in fact it can rotate in all 4 directions), which is useful for PDFs. Like the Kindle 2, the DX has 16 shades of gray but images look better thanks to the larger display. The 6” readers have 800 x 600 pixel resolution 167ppi displays while the Kindle DX is 1200 x 824 at 150ppi. The 9.7” diagonal display is 2.5x larger than the Kindle, Kindle 2 and Sony Reader PRS-505’s 6” display.
#AMAZON KINDLE DX POWER CABLE PDF#
What’s new? The Kindle DX adds native PDF support and a screen large enough to view most PDFs. The Kindle DX sells for $489 while the Kindle 2 sells for $359. Like the Kindle and Kindle 2, the DX works with ebooks sold by Amazon (over 300,000 as of this writing) and. It’s nearly as thin (which is to say extremely thin), has that first gen iPhone-style brushed aluminum back with the plastic top section that covers the Whispernet antenna, has a QWERTY thumb keyboard for note-taking and searches, has a built-in dictionary and it has a grayscale e-ink display.
The DX looks, feels and acts much like its smaller brother-in fact the physical resemblance is uncanny. Three and half months after Amazon released the Kindle 2 ebook reader, they’ve followed up with the super-sized Kindle DX. What's not: Doesn't support as many formats natively as Sony Readers.Įditor's note, July 2010: Read our review of the Kindle DX Graphite with an improved display and lower price. What's hot: Large display and native PDF support.
0 kommentar(er)
