Because I am interested in one day purchasing a Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reading device or ebook reader, I have been following its development. Here is the latest from TechCrunch [http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/25/amazon-kindle-2-slated-for-early-q1/]:
“Update on the Kindle 2: It was scheduled to be released in October in time for this holiday season, but Bezos himself reportedly pulled the plug for last minute changes to the software. Our sources now say it’s tentatively scheduled to go on sale in ‘early next quarter.’
The images that surfaced of the new Kindle in October are real – it’s a longer device but not as thick as the original Kindle, and fixes some of the button issues that plague users (like accidental page turns). A larger-screen student version is still scheduled for the first half of 2009.
Amazon is slow to turn new versions of the Kindle, which isn’t surprising given that this is their first foray into actual devices. I still think they’d be better off licensing the platform and letting the factories in China iterate more often on the Kindle - from what we hear a bunch of new ebook products are about to hit the market, and some of them may be real competition to Amazon.”
I would love to have a Kindle but at this point I think is just too expensive. But I don’t think giving China another product to sell to us makes any sense!
I hope the long wait will be fruitful, as this type of gadgets can be really helpful for education purpose, Rather than spoiling money on those i pods and stuff like that.
Waseem
i will wait untill it be discount