No more pristine beauty here, the new design for Kindle 3 which is aptly black in colour, is all about aggressive posturing -- Amazon clearly wants to stay at the top.
but then does just changing colours, shedding some weight and adding more brightness make for a blockbuster? Well if you are an actress then yes, all of these might help...but as a gadget, a lot more is surely needed.
For starters, the device cries out for a touch interface, i mean swiping the screen is so much more closer to the real life reading experience than just clicking on buttons.
Next the Kindle needs a device management software. Take a leaf from Apple, iTunes made ipods manageable. If you are reader who buys atleast 4 books a month, you really need one of those. Seeing that Amazon would like you to buy more of their cheaper Kindle editions, this one is a no brainer edition.
And then the real icing on the top would be colour. Yes yes we've heard that books are not coloured either, but the cover is right... nothing beats seeing the cover of your favourite book in all colours...enough to put a smile on your face and get you digging in.
And while at it, maybe get rid of the keyboard (it can go virtual...after all you don't use it regularly while reading. A touch screen keypad would be just ok for those bent on taking notes or searching) and increase the reading pane...much less 'page change' interruptions for the fast readers.
Finally, a better collection viewing system. The current one just sucks. It's tedious to create, difficult to locate if you have multiple collections and is just not appealing.
And mind you the above points are just top level stuff that needs to happen. But till these ain't happening you can stay sweet with your current white beauty and give the black sister a miss...Nothing to be jealous here ;)
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