Cracking Open the Amazon Kindle 2011
Summary: Bill Detwiler cracks open the 2011 Amazon Kindle. Inside the pocket-sized e-reader, there's hardware from Freescale, SanDisk, Hynix, and Atheros.
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Once the two screws are removed, I used a think metal blade to pry loose the plastic plate.
Photo by: Bill Detwiler / TechRepublic
Caption by: Bill Detwiler
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RE: Cracking Open the Amazon Kindle 2011
Wow!
Why even bother? What did they really expect to find?
Kindle Twinkle ...err ....Fire
- 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.
RE: Cracking Open the Amazon Kindle 2011
RE: Cracking Open the Amazon Kindle 2011
As I understand from reading articles the kindle is able to run Hulu and Netflix
The nook is the same as the kindle with two differences the sd card and the 16 gb storage,which i do not really need since I have a wi-fi hard drive which I can use .
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