
Amazon Kindle
Kindle is a lot of people the focus of attention, the system is divided into two parts, Kindle e-book and Kindle2, Kindle DX hardware. This is the Amazon class iTune store established business environment. Kindle store up a year later, that is, last year’s , Kindle 2 market started slowly red together, this and Kindle2 sound design is inseparable from my Kindle 2 is also the time to start. However, the domestic E-ink market, Kindle does not attract the one hand, Domestic SONY505 accounted for most of the 6-inch-screen market, the culture is relatively mature, there is no keyboard, more slender point, two to Kindle store, and built-in 3G in the country not take. Then two things happened, resulting in Kindle in the country market share continues to increase.
The first is the emergence of Kindle DX, $ 500 less than the price of 10-inch screen eInk entry price reduced by half. There is no wifi? No problem, there is no touch input? No problem. Want to crack the Chinese? No problem, PDF Catalog can not jump turn? No problem. as long as the price was cheap.
Most users choose KindleDX, because this is an ideal time for mobile PDF browser, functional performance is not the best, but the price is the highest. Most people who buy a Kindle DX, the main aim is to read A4/Letter format of the PDF, including scanning the image PDF. Although KIndex DX on PDF scaling, dictionaries, queries, and so the local support was not as good as Kindle store selling books, for most of the DX-users, DX is the best at this price under the choice. a lot of people look at the technical aspects of using DX reference books, documents, papers and so on. For this part of the user, Kindle store is just an additional function, not the main function.
Kindle DX is the first choice for reading e-books do? Clearly not. Kindle store all the books can all be viewed in the Kindle 2 above, only a small part of the computer books, travel books and recipe books for the Kindle DX optimized. Contrast Kindle 2, and DX volume weight, can Kindle2 watch, and why to use Kindle DX then? a long time to read the ideal choice is 6-inch screen Eink reader, for the large format of the PDF, the current choice is Kindle DX. a lot of EINK Interests vision of those who was out with a 6-inch screen EINK, at home, on the big screen with the DX.
Back to the topic discussed just now, Kindle, another major event is the international version of KIndle the introduction of a free 3G roaming, in addition to access to the Kindle store, there is a feature that is the Internet, in particular, over the wall can not be on the wiki. This matter led to international version of the Kindle2 in the domestic have begun to heat up, and DX together to promote the development of the entire EINK market. Who bought EINK just to study? if it online, even on the very non-event, they may be purchased a decision factor.
iPad out, everything is chaotic. EINK this take a look at HP’s version will know. $ 499 price of the iPad, what upset the Kindlex DX where the market is large-format PDF reading.
Let me talk about Apple’s Cut, iBooks store was obviously a test of water in promotion, after all, Apple is a new field, when the opening is not a pre-loaded, like the iTunes store earlier, only a small number of partners, is more who, iBooks is just a free software, but also to the App store to download, there is no built-in iPad inside, that is, know that Apple iPad did not focus on the Book store on. especially Amzon a few days before the release, the low-end The ebook is divided into a substantial increase in the proportion, and the Apple line, which shows the short term, Kindle store, or absolute advantage, not to mention Kindle also have to read the software iPad.
In the large-format color reading and reading, iPad advantages will become prominent, newspapers, and even inside the Harry Potter newspapers and magazines, including fashion magazines, National Geographic, this emphasis on pictures to read books on the current Kindle DX can not be achieved, and the other one is a comic, especially the color comics, iPad also has an insurmountable advantage.
As for the large format of the PDF files, that is, iPad, and Kindle DX occasions been confronted by. If we look at the technical documentation, an easy to find, link to jump, zoom, notes the importance of functions such as the display than Eink effects of higher, professional papers for the PDF to read and manage, OSX and the iPhone, has a well-known software called the Papers, why is the education market, said the best paper management and browsing software. I believe will launch a version of the corresponding iPad. At present, the documentation directory management Kindle is not perfect, read the paper more often, not easy to find, other functional limitations, flip refresh rate of less suitable. So, if most of the time of the reading is the order of reading, each reading a long time (each 1 hour or more), but within certain period of time to read the text books the number of relatively fixed, it is more suitable for Kindle DX, otherwise the iPad would be more appropriate.
For the user, if you have to have a 6-inch screen eInk, if you need to add a big-screen PDF browser, then the best option is to mix iPad. If you already have and have a 6-inch Kindle DX, then if I felt that I not satisfied, you can try the iPad. If both are not, usually only need to look at the novel, then a 6-inch eink on it. if we look at the general category of relatively broad, want to multi-purpose, iPad can be is an option.
As for the weight, Kindle DX and the iPad or less, as with the Kindle DX, most will be more to buy a holster, and some even a wooden box … because of the vulnerability of EINK screen protection cover is also relatively heavy, so use them both weight will not be Chaitai Duo.