The Kindle touchscreen or Kindle touch is now available. And boy is it amazing. Starting at an incredible price of just $99 it is too good an opportunity to miss out on.
There are a coupe of key features that are worth pointing out:
- Amazing price
- Full touch screen
- 2 month battery life!!!
- Stores 3000 books
- You can borrow books from the library!
The screen works amazingly well. A touch on the left takes you back a page, the right takes you to the next page and a touch at the top takes you to the menu.
We also have a touch screen keyboard too.
We can choose from a Kindle touch wi-fi version or one with the addition of 3G as well, perfect for those that like to buy books on the move.
With all new features and the low starting price this is definitely an amazing new release.
We can change the font size so the screen can be read easily depending on our level of eyesight. There are custom fonts, we can zoom in on images and it even comes with built in Wikipedia for quick reference.
The new Kindle touch features also includes lots of information on real life characters and events mentioned.
You can even borrow books from the library now as well. All in all it is an incredible new release that makes reading a total joy.
Below is the original article written here before we knew just what the exact details were going to be.
An Amazon Kindle touch screen is now a definite, and this is going to be great. The Kindle 4 is going to be a Kindle touchscreen and the price is set to be one of the lowest ever. From what we can gather touch screens are already being produced by a number of different suppliers for Amazon and the smaller screens are due to be shipped this Summer.
It really does seem more likely than ever before that a new Kindle touch is going to be available well before the end of the year.
Kindle Touch
The debate about what is going to be best for the Kindle still rages on though. A color Kindle is certainly what a lot of people are after, others are waiting for the new Amazon tablet to arrive and it seems that all of these options will be available for 2011.
There are now very strong rumors from inside Amazon that two new Kindles will be released. One will be a touch screen Kindle and the other may well just be an updated version of the current Kindle 3.
And with a tablet PC also due out this is certainly going to be a busy year indeed for fans of the Kindle and the forthcoming tablets.
What people decide to buy is going to be very interesting indeed. It seems that people may well have to choose between either a color tablet or a touch screen Kindle 4, I know what I would prefer and that is going to be a touch screen that still has the extended battery life that a tablet could never hope to match.
Let’s hope the Amazon Kindle touchscreen is out soon, and from the many rumors it does seem that this will be the case.
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I hope you are right about a touch screen Kindle coming soon. My wife has a Kindle 3, but I don’t like the keyboard approach. At all.
I had almost bought a Nook Simple Touch, when I discovered the difference between the Nook’s search capabilities (or lack thereof compared to the Kindle 3) The Kindle 3′s search is so superior, that I decided it is definitely worth waiting for a Kindle Touch!
To add to my previous comments:
I should have said I don’t like the Kindle 3′s 5-way key control method for manuevering vs the Nook Simple Touch’s touchscreen control.