Amazon Kindle
One of the hottest new items to come to the market in the past twelve months has been the advent of the Amazon Kindle. This device measures a little more than five and one quarter inches by seven and a half inches by just less than three quarters of an inch thick. It has a six inch diagonal screen with a display that measures a little less than three and five eighths inches by a little more than four and three quarter inches. (600 x 800 pixels) It has a readability factor of 167 ppi with 4-level gray scale electronic paper. Pages are changed via an LCD scroll on the right hand side of the device. It weighs a mere ten ounces, which is just less than three quarter of a pound.
Its operating system is a very common one found in many devices and computers today. The Linux system has been used for quite sometime and should be familiar to most have spent any time with a computer or electronics. The Linux used in the Amazon Kindle is a 2.6.10 kernel variety. Information is input into the device via a QWERTY keyboard with select wheel and it has keys for ‘next’, ‘previous’, and ‘back’ functions. It has a central processor unit (CPU), which is the Marvell PXA255.
The Amazon Kindle can hold up to two hundred books (non-illustrated) in its memory. It can download a total of nineteen different newspapers daily. It has space for up to three hundred forty-six blog entries. How is this accomplished? It has a random access memory (RAM) capacity of 64MB. It has internal storage capacity of 256MB (180MB available for use). To avoid overfilling the memory on it, it has a SD expansion slot to allow exportation of files to alternate storage. The Amazon Kindle has complete archival functions available for all Amazon Cloud material purchased.
Connections are made though EVDO/CDMA wireless modem. A 2.0 USB port (mini-B connector), built-in speaker, 3.5mm headphone jack, and AC power adapter pin all come included with the Amazon Kindle. It is powered by a 3.7Volt, 1530mAh lithium polymer battery (Model no. BA100). Network connections are available through Amazon Whispernet. A wide range of media is available for usage on the Amazon Kindle. The following file-types are supported on Amazon Kindle: Kindle (.azw), Unprotected Mobipocket (.mobi, .prc), Plain text (.txt), Audible (.aa) and MP3 (.mp3).
The Amazon Kindle has been in high demand ever since its arrival to the market in late 2007. The Amazon Kindle is definitely the new-age future for the fast-paced life we live today.
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