The On line shop Amazon, known for selling books and CDs over the Internet, has launched its first ‘e-book’, Amazon Kindle. A portable device on which you can download books, newspapers, blogs or access Wikipedia without cables and without having to synchronize with a computer.

Kindle has an electronic ink display of six inches and a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels. In addition, it plays a scale of four levels of gray. According to the company, reflects the letters as if it were paper and has no backlight, making it easy to read along with the possibility of expanding the size of the text.

“We’ve worked on Kindle for more than three years. Our goal is to design it disappears in your hands and you can enjoy reading,” says Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, who also emphasizes its wireless connectivity and that does not A computer for ‘loaded’ with new readings.

This system, called Amazon Whispernet, uses technology EVDO, a data transmission system for high-speed telephone networks. Thus, users can download new content Kindle without searching for a connection point and free, as Amazon pays the bill for her connection.

The funds in his shop are the major asset of the company to succeed his device in an area where other large, such as Sony or Microsoft, they have not come to fruition. Amazon has more than 90,000 titles and 100 ‘best sellers’ ready to be downloaded to 9.99 U.S. dollars, a price far lower than in the printed books. However, we must have the 399 U.S. dollars it costs to the device.

Moreover, as if it were a book on paper, it is possible to make notes in the margins and edit, remove or ‘draw’ these notes of the device. Even pages can be marked for use later. They also can store text documents, images and sound, at a price of 0.10 U.S. dollars each.
Not just books, also news

One of the strengths of this’ gadget ‘is that it also allows you to download newspapers, magazines and blogs to subscribers. From the retail store to browse Kindle may be as normal and choose from the newspapers as’ The New York Times’ or ‘Le Monde’, magazines like ‘TIME’ or blogs like ‘Boing Boing’. You can also access the ‘The News Oxford American Dictionary’ and Wikipedia.

The editions are updated automatically during the night, so that the user has them available when waking up. The daily press service costs between 5.99 and 14.99 U.S. dollars per month, the magazine between 1.25 and 3.49 U.S. dollars, and the blog-over 300 -, 0.99 U.S. dollars a month for subscription.

In Kindle’s memory you can store more than 200 titles (185 MB), but it is possible to extend it with SD memory cards. In addition, all books that are purchased will be ‘copied’ on Amazon.com’s user account, so it is always possible to retrieve them, since you can connect to a computer through its USB input.

The battery is another of its strengths, as it connected to the wireless network lasts a full day and, without doing so, more than a week. In addition, it is completely recharged in two hours, according to what Amazon says.

A device ready to use just out of the box. No need to install any software or perform a complicated configuration. High technology for the average user. The only question is whether the average user is willing to pay for things you can get free to turn the Amazon Kindle into the ‘iPod for books’.

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