[Wylug-discuss] advice on ebook reader or similar...

[A J Cole]

>>I thought I might mention this which popped up when I had a look at 
>>the Daily Mail site....
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/6as4uqv
>>
>>"  Lighting a fire under iPad: Amazon 'readies launch' of new colour 
>>Kindle - and it could be the first to make Apple sweat
>>By Rob Waugh
>>Last updated at 4:09 PM on 27th September 2011
>>    New Kindle will be called Fire
>>    Android tablet will be 'half the price of iPad 2'
>>    Insiders describe it as 'first credible rival' to Apple 
>
>More likely to cause RIM problems before Apple (RIM already have serious
>problems).  The Reg says this was designed by the same shop which designed
>the latest RIM tablet.
>
>	Amazon to kindle Fire tablet tomorrow
>	http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/27/amazon_to_unveil_kindle_fire_android_tablet/
>
>But its a tablet and thus only a generic e-reader.  Its not e-ink, there
>are colour e-ink displays, one wonders how they manage to sell b&w Kindles
>in Japan?  It looks as if this one will perhaps hit the UK about the same
>time as the A4 Kindle (not really A4 of course - just A4 in landscape).
>
>btw I purchased a Kindle last week but had no time to really play with
>it: it was a present for a 91 year old great aunt who loves it already.
>I gave her a HP tablet a few months ago - in retrospect not a good move
>on my part.  When you are 91 its not a good idea to wait around for
>a proper A4 display nor colour e-ink!

New members of the Kindle e-ink range announced ...

	Amazon revamps E Ink Kindle line
	http://www.reghardware.com/2011/09/28/amazon_launches_kindle_fire_ebook_tablet/

Andrew