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Title: Big Screen Kindle Announced
Post by: Phillip V on May 06, 2009, 01:19:02 PM
Yay! :cool: I will probably wait until 2011 for the price to go down, and when I go overseas for a long period, but this is the size I have been looking for.

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QuoteAmazon announced the Kindle DX on May 6, 2009. This device has a larger screen than its predecessors and supports PDF files natively. It is marketed as more suitable for displaying newspaper and textbook content.
News article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/companies/07kindle.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/companies/07kindle.html)

Product page: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Amazons-Wireless-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0 (http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-DX-Amazons-Wireless-Generation/dp/B0015TCML0)
Title: Re: Big Screen Kindle Announced
Post by: Berkut on May 06, 2009, 01:29:24 PM
Still black and white?

Fail.
Title: Re: Big Screen Kindle Announced
Post by: garbon on May 06, 2009, 02:42:21 PM
A large kindle sounds horrible.