I still have an old Kindle and it still gets months of battery life. I occasionally read comics so this may get me to upgrade.

  • CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    Uhh… What was the Kindle Fire? Wasn’t that color, it was basically a very dumb tablet instead of a smart eReader?

    Paperwhite is awesome, anyway. Great battery life. Perfect format. USB-C for charging, unlike the Oasis, seriously fuck you guys so hard for giving the Oasis microUSB, fuck you fuck you fuck you. Sometimes…you just need to know your lane & stay in it.

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      2 months ago

      My guess is that Amazon thinks everyone f9rgot about the Kindle Fire cuz that was before last quarter and that’s as far back as they remember.

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            2 months ago

            In name, sure. But not really. It was Amazon trying to sell an Android tablet on the Kindle brand. It could read Kindle books using the same Kindle app as any Android device, but it was far more than an eReader and didn’t feature the eInk screen that makes eReaders worth reading on.

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            2 months ago

            No. It was a completely different product. It’s like trying to claim that an iPhone is an iMac because it has the “i” in the name and is made by the same company. Similar branding to help tie it together, but completely different devices.

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      2 months ago

      The Kindle Fire was an Android tablet, not an e-reader. Completely different products.