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Amazon Kindle Slim Version Launching in August – Rumour

As well as being a thinner device, the third generation Amazon Kindle will also have a more responsive screen that will have a sharper picture. Neither touchscreen or colour will be included in the new slim Kindle.

Earlier this week the CEO of Amazon said that colour isn't in the immediate future although it is being looked at. Perhaps we could see a colour Kindle next year although we are just speculating here.

“I’ve seen some stuff in the laboratory, but it’s not quite ready for prime-time production,” Bezos said May 25 at the company’s annual shareholders meeting.

Although the new Apple iPad has sold over 1 million units and now even more with a successful iPad UK launch yesterday, it seems that fast colour IPS screens are the way forwards. Amazon still is using eInk and although slower (a lot slower) and still black and white with perhaps a few scales in between, the screens do help with battery life in that the kindle can go for days rather than hours between charge. Amazon looks to be sticking with the e-ink route for now.

Via: Bloomberg

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Pandigital intros 7-inch Novel e-reader, nabs access to B&N eBookstore

Pandigital's best known for its hard, hard work in the game-changing digital photo frame world, but the company's feeling a bit froggy of late. It's latest leap is into the burgeoning e-reader market, and unlike those from Barnes & Noble and Amazon, this one's sporting a 7-inch LCD — you know, now that Apple has suddenly made that "okay" again. At any rate, the forthcoming Novel boasts a full-color 800 x 600 resolution touchscreen, inbuilt WiFi and dimensions of 5.5- x 7.5- x 0.5-inches. The highlight here is the partnership with B&N, which gives this guy access to the bookseller's eBookstore, not to mention the ability to share content via LendMe. Pandigital also throws in 1GB of internal memory, an SD / MMC card slot, orientation sensor, and the rechargeable battery is said to be good for a mediocre six hours on a full charge. The $199.99 Novel should be out and about next month supporting PDF, ePUB and HTML formats (yeah, there's a web browser), and in case you were wondering, it's based around Android and gets powered by an ARM 11 processor. Did Pandigital — of all companies — just out a remotely interesting e-reader? Yes, yes it did.

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