The new generation Amazon Kindle Paperwhite has only just gone up for sale in the country and the eReader doesn’t break the bank at all, considering that you can purchase it for a starting price of Rs 10,999. And in case you have made up your mind to lay your hands on the device, you would want to know more about the features of the gadget. So here they are.
Specifications:
Fitted on a chassis with dimensions of 169 x 117 x 9.1 millimeters is a 6-inch Paperwhite display that is deployed with the Carta e-paper as well as a built-in light. You can expect an optimized font technology as well as 16-level grey scale and its pixel density stands at 212ppi. The Amazon eBook reader tips the scales at 206 grams and features a battery that offers power life for 8 weeks if you read for half an hour everyday with light settings on 10. It takes about 4 hours to charge completely.
This piece of hardware comes in two variants, Wi-Fi-only and 3G + Wi-Fi and is compatible with most types of Wi-Fi hotspots. There’s merely 2GB of onboard memory, but you can easily store as many as 1100 eBooks on it. And if it is not enough, you get to store content downloaded from the Amazon store to the company’s own cloud service. Apart from the Kindle format, the eReader is compatible with various other codecs such as TXT, PDF, HTML, Doc, DOCX, JPEG, GIF and more.
Features:
The new Paperwhite builds up on the success of its predecessor and even claims to bring a better and high contrast display that renders sharp visuals that appear just like a physical paper. You can read it in bright sunlight and it doesn’t strain your eyes even if you read it in the dark. Apt for one-handed use, the device brings a whole lot of attributes to make reading as pleasant as possible.
The gadget allows you to flip through pages and at the same time remembers your page number. You can take notes, look up words, adjust font size, search for a specific term or character, organize your library and eBooks, get translations and do a lot more on it. A number of things that may appeal to children and encourage them to read can also be found in it. And the device lets you activate parental controls to ensure your kids get access to content which is appropriate for them.
And what’s more, you get instant access to the Kindle store, from where you can buy a whole lot of books for reasonable prices. The Kindle Paperwhite has something called as Whispersync technology that works over the cloud and remembers where you left a book. This way, you can continue reading on almost any other Kindle-compatible device from exactly the same place and you always have your book, whether you carry your eReader or not. The multilingual slate understands Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese, apart from English.
Price and availability:
The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite eReader is now available for purchase at the official website as well as multiple retail channels in major cities in India. Its Wi-Fi model is priced at Rs 10,999, while the 3G and Wi-Fi variant can be yours if you shell out Rs 13,999