Amazon ships Kindle Fire HD, Paperwhite to Brits
Lovefilm leaps for Fire too
Amazon would like you to know that its Fire HD tablet and Paperwhite e-readers are now available to us Brits. And that Lovefilm, Amazon’s film streaming and DVD rental service, can be accessed on the former.
The Fire HD, with its 7in, 1280 x 800 display - a rather higher pixel density than the iPad Mini - comes in 16GB and 32GB forms, priced at £159 and £199, respectively. The catch: you’ll have to put up with screen-saver advertising. It’ll cost you a tenner on the purchase price to rid yourself of these intrusions.
The Paperwhite is an E Ink screen-based e-reader with permanent transflective illumination - LEDs shine their light down through the screen to reflect off the display’s backing. To panel purists, this is not a backlight, but the effect is the same.
The Paperwhite comes with 2GB of storage, not all of it available for your e-library, and retails at £109 for the basic model and £169 for the version with an on-board 3G mobile broadband modem. The latter’s purchase price includes the cost of connectivity.
Amazon hasn’t said what the Paperwhite’s display resolution is, only that it has 62 per cent more pixels than the 800 x 600 Kindle 3. So 1024 x 768 then.
Meanwhile, Lovefilm’s app will provide subscribers who avail themselves of a Fire HD or plain old Fire will be able to stream “thousands” of movies and TV shows. Just make sure you don’t already have three devices, such as iPads, PS3s, Xboxes and smart TVs, linked to your Lovefilm account - that’s the maximum. ®
COMMENTS
Re: More details needed
"Amazon restricts you to only reading books that you download via its own shop. You can squeeze .pdf or Word files onto the Kindle by email, but the popular .epub file format used by many websites and public libraries is not supported."
You can load Mobi format books onto the kindle via USB, you can turn most file formats into Mobi using Calibre.
Of the 200+ books on my Kindle, I'd say about 10% were bought from the Kindle store
Re: No Kindle HD for me today.
But the special offers *are* advertised up front! Take a look at the product page on Amazon & you'll see the HD with two buttons for 16 and 32GB, and beneath these are two more buttons for with or without special offers. Click the ones you want, price changes accordingly - simple. And if you bought it with the offers you can change your mind later & have them removed for - yes - £10.
Re: No Kindle HD for me today.
Presumably because (a) it costs a tenner more and (b) because it wasn't exactly advertised up-front.
And I wouldn't have said he was spitting the dummy, or sulking. He was just cancelling an order.
Why was it necessary to be offensive, simply because you disagree?
I swear, if people discussed things down the pub the way they discuss things on the internet, there would be two or three fights every night.
Re: Datasheets on "Paperwhite"
Where can you try one.
Amazon.co.uk funnilly enough, and if you don't like it, you can send it back free of charge up to 29 days later.
I asked Kobo if they were that sure of their product why I couldn't do likewise..guess that's why I have kindles...
