Kindle Feature Upgrades! Nook Sold Out!
Amazon’s Kindle is getting a longer battery life, and even better, PDF support! Today, Amazon released a firmware update to the Kindle that gives users the abiolity to read PDF documents, and it significantly extends the battery life!
This brings the Kindle features up to par, since both the Sony Readers and Barnes & Noble’s nook already offer PDF support for their readers. This upgrade will reduce the hassle of reading PDF documents, even though you will still need to download them throuh your USB connection.
This affects only the Kindle, as the larger Kindle DX already features the PDF reader. Besides adding a PDF reader, the Kindle firmware update also extends the battery life of the device to approximately one week from the previous four days (with wireless capability switched on). With the wireless switched off, your Kindle can go up to two weeks without a charge.
The wireless capability is used in automatically delivering firmware updates and for buying and downloading e-books from Amazon. Both Barnes & Noble’s Nook and some models of Sony Readers have the same wireless capability for accessing their online stores.
Amazon released the latest upgrade as the competition heats up in the eReader market. Amazon remains the leader, but Barnes & Noble is doing very well with nook, which is currently listed as “sold out.” Anyone placing an order today will have to wait until after January 4, 2010 to receive their order.
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