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Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279 (www.cnbc.com)
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I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

My guess is that Amazon thinks everyone forgot about the Kindle Fire cuz that was before last quarter and that's as far back as they remember.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Amazon Fire wasn’t an e-Ink screen, it was LCD.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    But it was still a Kindle though?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    In name, sure. But not really. It was Amazon trying to sell an Android tablet on the Kindle brand. It could read Kindle books using the same Kindle app as any Android device, but it was far more than an eReader and didn’t feature the eInk screen that makes eReaders worth reading on.

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