There ’s a lot to digest in Newsweek ’s seven - pageboy all - out feature article . Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos sums it up : “ This is n’t a machine , it ’s a service . ” Kindle startsshipping tomorrowfor $ 399 and is “ a forever connectedInternet gadget ” runningoff of EV - DO — it calls the help “ Whispernet . ” It ’s totally computer self-governing : You browse for books ( 88,000 at launch ) and buy them in a “ one - touch process , ” it come with a personal Kindle email speech and it can browse the regular net — keyboard go useful now , does n’t it ?
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talk about the hardware itself , it ’ll hold 200 books on instrument panel , though you could supplement with unspecified memory scorecard . It ’ll get up to 30 hour of reading per charge and weighs 10.3 Panthera uncia . So , why does such a potentially disruptive gimmick look so very plain ? They want it to look like “ an austere watercraft of culture . ” The moniker Kindle is from the same line of cerebration , “ the crackling kindling of knowledge . ” But , thankfully , it does n’t get ardent itself .
Some obvious questions are allow for though , mostly about the “ always - on ” link — is the EV - DO - based Whispernet service of process include in the $ 399 ? If not , what ’s the pricing on that ? And what are its limits , since you’re able to go out onto the real WWW ? Odds are , Bezos himself will reveal the answers tomorrow .
The goal here are pretty lofty : “ Amazon believes it has created the iPod of reading . ” We really , really dig Jeff ’s visual sensation , “ that you should be able to get any book — not just any book in print , but any Scripture that ’s ever been in print — on this gimmick in less than a minute , ” so we hope about as much as he does that this little beige slab lives up to all the terrific that they ’re promising . [ Newsweek ]
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