On the other hand, the e-Ink keyboard input is more resistant than it is on LCD, which means less errors from a light touch. That's true even when doing a long-press that is used to to bring up an option box. That doesn't seem intuitive but I found this works more reliably than using more pressure. TIP: The lightest possible keypress to bring up a menu or dialog box will work best - even when lightly tapping for a page turn or on a link. (But it's still my Kindle 3 I'll be carrying with me outside since I can almost never find unprotected WiFi anymore, outside.) Much as I appreciate the free 3G web-lookups of the previous model when I'm outside the home, these changes are very nice. The processor used in the Touch models is a faster one, and the Touch method's advantage for webbing is that it gives direct access to clickable links, so there's no added time involved in moving the older 5-way controller up, down, and sideways to active hyperlinks (and each cursor movement meant a slowing-down refresh of part of the screen). The Article Mode reformats a story into single-report form, usually with a small photo at the top. If that's not good enough, you can pinch-zoom THAT and it can look really good! But if that's still not good enough, then choose Menu to select " Article Mode" which puts it in a highly readable layout that's very pleasant to read but which, as said elsewhere here, doesn't offer the links from the article. Instead, we can pinch-zoom on an area and it brings up a much more readable version of that, and we can then click a link to a story that is readable while showing the whole width of a column or columns as appropriate plus side stories. The zoom-box that used to be there to bring up sections so that we can read them is gone. When I went to the simple, text-focused, it of course came up fairly quickly, but I was surprised to see, when I clicked on a Telegraph (UK) story, that the whole thing came up suddenly - it must have been pre-fetched by the webkit browser.Īccessing Amazon's bookmark'd NY Times site, in its print-newspaper layout, it comes up pretty fast!, but with the full page seen in portrait mode on a little screen, so it's not readable. This is especially good for Kindle-Edition subscribers who are needing to follow a Kindle subscription blog link to information on another site. When accessing web sites with the KTouch, you're often wisely taken to mobile versions of the web pages, but my over-long, over-imaged, site came up in normal desktop format 10x faster than it would before. The new Touch model really can be very quick for an e-Ink device. I don't mean just fastER than the often-slow but free Kindle 3 web lookups, which could be slow with WiFi also. The WiFi web-browsing, via my Comcast host and Netgear router, is actually usually quite fast with the 3G/WiFi SO ( Special Offers) model. Web browsing speed (Web lookups are on WiFi-only, on the new models, except for accessing the KindleStore and Wikipedia, the latter a really worthwhile feature when reading a book) I wouldn't either if I were paying for it. But I can see now why Amazon decided not to offer it on the new Kindles. Some, including me, have been disappointed that, unlike the 3G/WiFi Kindle 3 ("Kindle Keyboard") model and its much-appreciated free 3G webbing that's so useful when traveling - locally even, but especially in countries where roaming charges for smartphones are sky-high - the Touch models don't offer free 3G web lookups internationally as the older 3G Kindles did. The known loss of the Free 3G Web-lookup feature There's always so much there that people find and relay.īUT - my Kindle Touch 3G/WiFi arrived today, so I looked into that.Īnd now I want to report on that first, due to a couple of unexpected items that impressed me.Īnd there are several changes I want to highlight. While I had wanted to quick-blog first impressions after 12 hours with the Kindle Fire Wednesday (which I more than enjoyed despite minor reservations), I've been doing the forums and trading information.
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