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Kindle for Android coming this summer

By | May 17, 2010, 11:08pm PDT

Summary: Kindle for Android is coming this summer to the Google Android platform, with support for purchasing books within the application. You will be able to sync your last read page too.

I am becoming more and more of a Google Android smartphone fan the more I use my Google Nexus One so I am always looking out for new applications. I am also an ebook fan so I was pleased to finally hear confirmation that Kindle for Android is coming this summer. In addition to reading your existing Kindle content you will be able to purchase books from within the application.

Other features revealed for the Kindle for Android application include:

  • Access to your existing Kindle library
  • Sync your last page read between the Kindle, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Mac
  • Choose from five different font sizes
  • Read in portrait or landscape mode

You can find a Kindle for Android page up on Amazon and sign up to be notified when the app is available to download for free.

Thanks to Phone Scoop for the heads-up on the news.

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Matthew is a professional naval architect by day and a mobile gadget freak at all other times. He purchases his own devices and then sells them on eBay or Craigslist to buy more. Many other devices are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the carrier or manufacturer. If any are provided as “long term loaner units” this will be clearly disclosed in his reviews.

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Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller started using a mobile devices in 1997 and has been writing news, reviews, and opinion pieces ever since. He is a co-host with GigaOM's Kevin Tofel on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and an author of three Wiley Companion series books. Matthew started using mobile devices with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 125 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, iOS, Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Windows Phone operating systems. His current collection includes an HTC Radar 4G, Dell Venue Pro, Apple iPad 2, HTC Flyer, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Nokia N9, Apple iPhone 4S, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
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Amazon is trying to reach as many as possible, but Kindle rules still...
denise3k 18th May 2010
Amazon clearly is taking an approach that selling the books (and other media) are the main goal and not the hardware platform of Kindle. This makes a lot of sense. After all, universal compatibility will give Amazon the ability to sell more books and they are not in the business of hardware designing and manufacturing. Good for Amazon and those who own iPad. Having said that, I agree with an earlier post that Kindle's screen is far superior to most other devices with backlit LCD out there.

On the note about Amazon, I recently came across an interesting table that details the discounts on Amazon.

It is at http://www.uberi.com

Maybe someone will find it useful too. While you are there, I would suggest checking out the "Amazon Filler Item" among other things there when you get a chance. It's quite amusing.
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This will be interesting to see.
matthew_maurice Updated - 17th May 2010
It says supporting Android 1.6 and later, and they specifically mention several models of phone. It will be telling to see how the app performs across so many devices. Of course the "coming soon" is the really interesting part. Let's see what ships, when, and for whom.
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"AmaTunes"
linuser 18th May 2010
Amazon has the potential to become "iTunes" (video, music, books, ...) for ANY device.

The appeal of "AmaTunes" would be that you could presumably move between devices (Blackberries, Androids, iPhones, ...) without losing access to your media library.
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What about windows?
Djblois Updated - 18th May 2010
So it will not sync your last page read with Windows Kindle application?
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Amazon is trying to reach as many as possible, but Kindle rules still...
denise3k 18th May 2010
Amazon clearly is taking an approach that selling the books (and other media) are the main goal and not the hardware platform of Kindle. This makes a lot of sense. After all, universal compatibility will give Amazon the ability to sell more books and they are not in the business of hardware designing and manufacturing. Good for Amazon and those who own iPad. Having said that, I agree with an earlier post that Kindle's screen is far superior to most other devices with backlit LCD out there.

On the note about Amazon, I recently came across an interesting table that details the discounts on Amazon.

It is at http://www.uberi.com

Maybe someone will find it useful too. While you are there, I would suggest checking out the "Amazon Filler Item" among other things there when you get a chance. It's quite amusing.

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