New Amazon Kindle Gets Thinner Design, Double The Storage

Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN is offering a new thinner and lighter Kindle with double the storage at the same price of $79.99, according to reports on Business Wire and PC Mag.

Kindle has become the most popular e-reader and one of the best-selling Amazon products. The revamped Kindle is already available for pre-order globally and "will start shipping in the coming weeks," according to Business Wire.

New Features

Amazon's latest iteration of Kindle allows users to export their notes and highlights via e-mail. "This feature will be available as part of a free, over-the-air software update in the coming weeks," Business Wire said, highlighting how e-mail capability adds printability to Kindle's features.

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Additionally, Amazon has said the new Kindle comes with built-in Bluetooth audio support, which "makes it possible for visually impaired users to use the VoiceView screen reader to read the content of the screen [...] without the need for an adaptor."

The new Kindle, which is available in white and black colors, includes all the features of earlier Kindles, such as new fonts, weeks of battery life, Goodreads, Whispersync and X-Ray.

Specs

Following are the technical specifications of the new Kindle as shown on the Amazon website:

• Display: 6" display technology with E Ink Pearl, 167 ppi, optimized font technology, 16-level gray scale
• Size : 6.3" x 4.5" x 0.36" (160 mm x 115 mm x 9.1 mm)
• Weight: 5.7 oz (161 g)
• Storage: 4 GB
• Cloud Storage: Free cloud storage for all Amazon content
• Battery Life: A single charge lasts up to four weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off.
• Charge Time: Fully charges in approximately 4 hours from a computer via USB cable.
• Wi-Fi: Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n standard with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication or Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS).
• Content Formats: Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; HTML, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.
• Other Features: The VoiceView screen reader, available over Bluetooth audio.
• What's In The Box: Kindle, USB 2.0 charging cable and Quick Start Guide.

At time of writing, Amazon was up 0.34 percent at $712.90 shortly after Thursday's opening bell.