Comments on: Kindle E-Readers Will Outsell Kindle Fires In 2012, Barclays Says

By: contentnext

contentnext — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:21:29 +0000

This is almost exactly the kind of list you get when someone tries to talk about why you shouldn’t by an iPad except you can’t ding them on price like you can with Apple. I’d wager that most of the points are meaningless to the average consumer (e.g. most people). And those that it does matter to already know this. I know there are people out there that care about rooting and stuff like that. But I still haven’t actually met one.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:48:05 +0000

Nook Touch is still better designed than even the new Kindle Touch with battery lasting
two months with ONE hour reading a day with Wi-Fi off thus it’s still twice as
long as new Kindle’s two months with HALF and hour a day with Wi-Fi off. It
looks like Kindle didn’t get any battery improvement in the new model, they
only changed the test condition. More, Kindle Touch still flashes black on each
page turn while Nook Touch reduces the flashing by 80%.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:47:14 +0000

Before you think of getting a Kindle twinkle …err…Fire, here’s some limitations of it that you need to consider:
- Kindle Fire doesn’t have microSD slot that, for example, Nook Color has thus it is stuck with 6 GB usable internal storage unlike Nook Color that can get up to 32 GB card in. Kindles are made to be almost like a “dumb terminal” of the past to make sure you’re tied up to Amazon’s storage on the web (for which you need Wi-Fi connection to get to) and you can only store content you get from Amazon there, not other files. Quoting Amazon on Kindle Fire: “Free cloud storage for all Amazon content”. Get it, Amazon content?
- The stats of how long the battery can last (Kindle Fire theory is 8 hours) are taken with Wi-Fi off. You can only imaging how much less Kindle Fire battery will last if you use it to access content from their Cloud storage over Wi-Fi.
- Amazon can spy on your web activity through their new cloud-integrated web browser of Kindle Fire.
- VERY IMPORTANT – lack of microSD slot means that if you decide to root your Kindle Fire, you’ll have to root the actual device thus there will be no coming back. On Nook Color, you can make it boot from a “rooted” microSD card and if you want to get back to the original Nook you can just take out the card and reboot.
- Kindle doesn’t support eBooks in ePub format that is the most used format in the world.
- Kindle app store contains only Amazon approved apps and it does not include (and will not include) Netflix app that iPad has and Nook Color is getting thus again you’re stuck with Amazon content only.
- Amazon confirmed that you cannot download anything to Kindle Fire when traveling abroad.
I’d recommend waiting for a couple of weeks as Nook Color 2 is rumored to be released by Barnes & Noble.