Comments on: Amazon Unveils Kindle DX. Big Screen, Big Price: $489.

By: LanceTurner.com – Media Notes: Kindle! Newspapers = Saved!

LanceTurner.com – Media Notes: Kindle! Newspapers = Saved! — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:23:11 +0000

[...] – The Kindle DX is finally here, and it will save newspapers! Except that it won’t. And here’s why. Also: there’s no real reason for news readers to buy one. Oh, and it [...]

By: Amazon’s Big, Expensive Kindle DX You Didn’t Buy Now Cheaper, Blacker | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:26:28 +0000

[...] A year ago, the Kindle DX seemed like it might be a big deal. [...]

By: Hearst Is Ready To Show Off Its Skiff E-Reader Platform, But It Doesn’t Want to Tell Quite Yet. Is Anyone Ready to Buy? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:31:16 +0000

[...] trust me on this when I tell you that the Skiff Reader appears to look and work a lot like Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle DX. At least from the brief glimpse I [...]

By: Kindle Nation Could Be 10 Million Strong. But What Happened to Amazon’s “Save the Newspaper Business” Plan? [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:52:19 +0000

[...] Amazon (AMZN) unveiled the DX in May, it briefly mentioned plans to sell the $489 machine at a discount to people who bought [...]

By: Kindle Nation Could Be 10 Million Strong. But What Happened to Amazon’s “Save the Newspaper Business” Plan? | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:04:30 +0000

[...] Amazon (AMZN) unveiled the DX in May, it briefly mentioned plans to sell the $489 machine at a discount to people who bought [...]

By: Amazon’s Kindle DX Pulls a Disappearing Act [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com

Amazon’s Kindle DX Pulls a Disappearing Act [MediaMemo] | UpOff.com — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:54:59 +0000

[...] Amazon’s newest e-book reader has sold out shortly after launch. This time, it’s the Kindle DX, the super-sized reader with the super-sized ($489) price tag. Amazon started selling the DX three days ago, and by yesterday afternoon the e-commerce giant said [...]

By: Amazon’s Kindle DX Pulls a Disappearing Act | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:42:59 +0000

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D7 Tech DEMO: Plastic Logic | D7 Highlights | AllThingsD — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:06:50 +0000

[...] (AMZN) isn’t the only company who wants to you read books and newspapers on a handheld device. The Kindle has a bevy of competitors, some of which already exist (like Sony’s (SNE) Reader) [...]

By: Weekend Update 5.09.09 [Digital Daily] | FateMaster Tech News

Weekend Update 5.09.09 [Digital Daily] | FateMaster Tech News — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:40:46 +0000

[...] Amazon (AMZN) unveiled the latest iteration of the device on Wednesday, and MediaMemo was there to liveblog the whole thing, including the crazy demo, during which the location’s facilities prevented Jeff Bezos from [...]

By: Tech Whiz Underground » Weekend Update 5.09.09

Tech Whiz Underground » Weekend Update 5.09.09 — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:06:25 +0000

By: Weekend Update 5.09.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sun, 10 May 2009 07:15:36 +0000

By: Media Notes: Kindle! Newspapers = Saved! « Lance Turner

Media Notes: Kindle! Newspapers = Saved! « Lance Turner — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:27:45 +0000

[...] – The Kindle DX is finally here, and it will save newspapers! Except that it won’t. And here’s why. Also: there’s no real reason for news readers to buy one. Oh, and it [...]

By: Fenixnordic Group » Blog Archive » How the Next Kindle Could Save the Newspaper Business

Thu, 07 May 2009 01:42:25 +0000

[...] in all, pretty disappointing, right? Peter Kafka and Om Malik certainly think so. And Henry Blodget works you through the numbers on why Sulzberger [...]

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:04:31 +0000

I have a hunch that the e-ink tech that’s integral to the Kindle’s display makes a “real” Web browser very difficult to pull off. And I actually don’t fault Amazon for not insisting that the Kindle be laden with bells and whistles — they’re not marketing this as a “tablet device” but a “reading device”. I think that’s fair.

By: Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:59:51 +0000

Does the Kindle DX’s web browser support Gmail? Something better than http://m.gmail.com ? If not, what a missed opportunity.

According to Chapter 6 of the Kindle DX User’s Guide (available on the Amazon site): “Your Kindle comes with an Experimental application called Basic Web, which is a Web browser optimized to read Web sites that are primarily text-based. It supports JavaScript, SSL and cookies but does not support media plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.) or Java applets.”

So it sounds like they didn’t improve the browser at all, which means, Amazon/Sprint do not seem to understand what is expected of a tablet device.

When Apple finally ships their first Kindle competitor, I bet it will include a browser at least as good as the one on the iPhone.