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Kindle 2 vs. Kindle 1 deathmatch
Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt compares the specs of Amazon's Kindle 2 to the Kindle 1 noting that it's 25% thinner, 20% faster, stores up to 1,500 books, and has 25% better battery life, among other improvements. He also elaborates on Whispersync:The new Whispersync technology allows users to pause in their reading on, say, a Kindle 1, and pick up where they left off on a Kindle 2 and, eventually, on future wireless devices — a phrase Bezos left tantalizingly vague.
Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt compares the specs of Amazon's Kindle 2 to the Kindle 1 noting that it's 25% thinner, 20% faster, stores up to 1,500 books, and has 25% better battery life, among other improvements. He also elaborates on Whispersync:
The new Whispersync technology allows users to pause in their reading on, say, a Kindle 1, and pick up where they left off on a Kindle 2 and, eventually, on future wireless devices — a phrase Bezos left tantalizingly vague.
Here's the lowdown on how K2 compares to the K1 (and the iPhone):
- Thinner: 0.36 inches thick, 25% thinner than an iPhone
- Quicker: Turns pages 20% faster
- Longer lasting: 25% increase in battery life
- Better display: 16 shades of gray (was 4)
- Bigger memory: Stores up to 1,500 books
- Bigger vocabulary: Built-in 250,000 dictionary
- Better navigation: With a 5-way joystick
- More vocal: Able to read text aloud in a semi-robotic voice
- Less accident prone: The page-turn buttons are smaller and harder to hit by mistake
- More wired: New Whispersync technology
Tip: Fortune's Apple 2.0