Amazon reveals ebook reader
Oh, come now, like you thought the world’s largest book retailer (online) — which just started peddling digital video under the Unbox brand — wasn’t going to go head to head with Sony’s Reader on an e-book device and service? Say hello to the Amazon Kindle, their take on a book reader device that comes equipped with a 6-inch 800 x 600 display (which we can only assume is e-ink), 256MB internal storage, smallish two-thumb keyboard cursor bar, scroll wheel, standard mini USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack, SD slot, and get this: EV-DO data! (Don’t believe us? The spec sheet is after the break. Why do you think it was in the FCC?)
Looks a little big and clunky to me. And surely they could have done better than 256mb of storage? True, ebooks don’t take up as much space as mp3s, but it’s several times as big as any iPod. The real question, though, is will it work with ebooks that weren’t bought from Amazon?
Read the report here (with pics!). (Via futurismic)
