Amazon Kindle App For Windows Phone 7 “Coming Soon” [Amazon Continues To Dominate With Smartphone Apps, Announces Windows Phone 7 App Is Coming Later This Year]

Posted on TFTS by Robert Nelson on Thursday, 28. October 2010 under: Mobile/Cell Phones

On the topic of Windows Phone 7 apps; Netflix, check, Slacker, check, Twitter, check and the latest — the Kindle. Yes, in a little bit of good news for ebook addicts planning to pick up a Windows Phone 7 handset, the official Amazon Kindle app is set to arrive sometime later this year.

And thankfully, being late in October, the rather generic sounding “later this year” that Amazon offered up is actually ok considering that does not leave much of a wait.

“Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that Kindle for Windows Phone 7 will be the first major eBook application available for Windows Phone 7.”

As far as the app itself, it will retain many of the features that Kindle users have come to expect in terms of a Kindle app on a smartphone. Some of the features include;

With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in a customer’s Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.
Buy Once, Read Everywhere with the Kindle apps and devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.
Integrated shopping experience that allows customers to shop without leaving the app.
The opportunity to send an email to a friend with a link to the book you’re reading or to any book in your library without leaving the app.
Customized reading, choosing from five different font sizes and three background colors.
The ability to read in portrait or landscape mode, and to turn pages by tapping on either side of the screen or flicking.

Furthermore, the Windows Phone 7 app will also have a few features above and beyond the other mobile apps. Those include personalized book recommendations on your home screen and the ability to send a book suggestion to a friend without leaving the app.

As of now there is nothing more specific in terms of a release date, however you can visit the Amazon website where you can give up your email address in exchange for an email when the app is available for download. All things considered, this is just one more reason to look at and consider Windows Phone 7 as Amazon is another major player that has chosen to adopt the platform and in-turn do their part to ensure its success. Because as we saw with Palm and the App Catalog, the amount of apps is important to overall success.

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