The Amazon Kindle Touch is a beautiful piece of E-Ink reader with all-new sleek design and it is smaller, lighter and 30% lighter than its predecessor Kindle.
Amazon Kindle Touch sports a “most advanced” 6-inch E-Ink multi-touch display enhanced with proprietary waveform & font technology at 600 X 800 pixel resolution, IR touch system, weighing at 213 grams, a new menu system called EasyReach, advantage of Amazon’s new deal with public libraries, more responsive keyboards inputs & taps, 4 GB of internal memory storage (up to 3,000 books), free cloud storage for all Amazon content, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, rear mounted speakers, micro USB 2.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, 3G, a powerful battery to provide up to 2 months of usage time with Wi-Fi, up to 6 weeks without Wi-Fi, Whispersync functionality and much more.
Amazon Kindle Touch is have the ability to get supplementary Wikipedia info on battles, politicians, places, world events. Kindle Touch is having special feature called “X-Ray”, which lets you to see all the passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics of interest, as well as more detailed descriptions from Wikipedia and Shelfari.
Full Technical Specifications Of Amazon Kindle Touch
| Network | |
| 2G Network | Yes |
| 3G Network | yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Size | 172 mm x 120 mm x 10.1 mm |
| Weight | 7.5 ounces (213 grams) |
| Form Factor | Candybar Touch Tablet |
| Display | |
| Type | E-Ink Touchscreen |
| Size | 6-inch |
| Resolution | 600 X 800 pixels |
| Pixel Density | 167 ppi with16-level grayscale |
| Input/ User Interface | Multi Touch Infrared (IR) Touch System |
| System Properties | |
| Operating System | — |
| CPU | — |
| Storage Capacity | |
| Internal Memory | – 4GB Internal Memory Storage |
| Expandable Memory | – |
| Browser & Messaging | HTML, Flash MMS, SMS, IM, Email, RSS |
| Camera | |
| Still | NO |
| Secondary | NO |
| Video Recording | NO |
| Connectivity | |
| Bluetooth | v2.1 with EDR Stereo, HID, A2DP, GAVDP |
| USB | v2.0 Micro USB |
| Headset | 3.5mm stereo headset jack |
| Radio | – |
| WLAN | NO |
| GPS | – |
| 3G | Yes |
| Video & Audio | |
| Audio Formats | Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, Audible, MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion. |
| Battery | |
| Type | Li-Ion Standard Battery |
| Usage Time | Up To 2 Months (With Wi-Fi) Up To 6 Weeks (Without Wi-Fi) |
| Other Features | Whispersync X-Ray Free Cloud Backup |
| Colors Availability | – |
Price & Availability
The Amazon Kindle Touch will start shipping from November 21st for $149 (3G variant) and $99 (Wi-Fi only variant).
Pre-Order:
Pre-orders now available at Amazon. Hit the links for $99 Kindle Touch or $149 Kindle Touch versions.
I own a Kindle with a keyboard, and your video didn’t answer two critical questions for me: how do I turn the page, and how do I type something on the new Touch model? Not buying until I’m satisfied with how these will work.
Will the new Kindle Touch have a text to speech option like the Kindle 3 does?