Kindle Colorsoft 2024
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Amazon introduced a brand new Kindle e-reader on Wednesday, which for the primary time has a coloration show.
The retail big launched the Kindle in 2007 and since then each system has had a black and white display. The brand new Kindle has a show designed to make sure colours do not look washed out or grainy, even when customers zoom in on photos.
The $279 system, which Amazon calls the Kindle Colorsoft, has a battery lifetime of “weeks,” the corporate mentioned. It is obtainable for pre-order now and can ship on October thirtieth.
Amazon additionally unveiled a redesigned $399 Kindle Scribe with new note-taking options, a redesigned $159 Kindle Paperwhite, and a $109 twelfth Technology Kindle. At a press occasion in New York Tuesday, Panos Panay, Amazon’s head of gadgets, referred to as the updates the “largest refresh the Kindle lineup has ever had.”
The Kindle Scribe, which Amazon launched in 2022, comes with a pen that enables customers to take notes, create to-do lists, and write instantly on the pages of the e book they’re studying. The brand new note-taking function, referred to as Lively Canvas, permits customers to annotate instantly on the pages of an e-book, with the textual content mechanically shifting to circulate round them. They’ll additionally make notes within the margins of the e book and conceal them for later.
The Kindle Scribe contains one other new function that makes use of generative synthetic intelligence to summarize pages of notes right into a concise record. Amazon mentioned the function makes use of Bedrock, a software program software that offers customers entry to massive language fashions from Amazon and different corporations similar to Anthropic and Stability AI. The system is on the market for pre-order now and can ship on December 4.
The brand new Kindle Paperwhite is quicker than earlier fashions and in addition includes a bigger 7-inch display, in comparison with 6.8 inches on the earlier model. Amazon says the twelfth era Kindle is probably the most “compact” e-reader ever, with a brighter display. Each gadgets might be obtainable from Wednesday.
