Amazon Kindle Getting Better Battery & PDF Support
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In a late evening report today, Amazon have announced that their Kindle e-reader owners will be getting a free firmware update that not only brings a battery life increase of up to 85-percent, it’s also going to have a built-in native PDF reader that allows to read your own documents.
Following a six month firmware improvement and testing program, the upgraded Kindles or the new ones you’ll buy in store, will stay on for up to 8 days with Wireless on, and up to two weeks if you don’t need to connect to the Internet — which is a significant improvement to older version. On top of that, the 6-inch Kindle is not only more conscious with its energy needs, you can now read PDF files either by emailing them to your @Kindle address or by loading them via USB from a memory stick.
“Kindle, already the #1 bestselling, most wished for, and most gifted product on all of Amazon.com, is now even better—with 85 percent more battery life and a built-in PDF reader,” said Ian Freed, vice president of Amazon Kindle, in a statement. “These two significant enhancements are available now.”
The latest Kindle firmware is expected to kick in for all models (except for the DX, it seems) via Whispernet, but there’s no ETA for that, yet.
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The Kindle DX does get the firmware upgrade but it already has native support for PDF.
What it will get is:
1. better handling of margins, automatically cropping them to maximize the amount of content shown on the screen.
2. the option to convert copies of PDFs to the Kindle format, allowing reflowing of text and uses of the inline dictionary, search, text-to-speech, and annotation features.
3. a longer delay before the ‘screensaver’ comes on — though no battery power is used unless a pixel on the page changes.
That’s from the Amazon pages, which I quote in my blog.
The battery boost for wireless-on sessions is not included for the U.S. Kindle 2 and the DX (which is not non-US wireless).
– Andrys