![]() ![]() ![]() Visually challenged readers will be happy to note that the Kindle's font size can be adjusted to six different levels. ![]() This new Kindle offers 16 shades of gray instead of 4, which really doesn't do anything for making standard text pop better, but it does add more detail to images. According to the specs, the screen itself is a 6-inch (diagonal) electronic-paper display, with a 600x800-pixel resolution at 167 ppi. The e-ink screen delivers 16 shades of gray and offers user-adjustable font sizes.Īs with most of these types of digital readers, there's no backlight (Amazon says it causes eyestrain), so you need some sort of light source to read in the dark. A lot of people, when they first see the screen, are genuinely impressed. ![]() In case you haven't heard already, the Kindle 2's screen is technically considered an electrophoretic display, which Wikipedia describes as "an information display that forms visible images by rearranging charged pigment particles using an applied electric field." Like some other electronic paper products, the Kindle 2 uses "e-ink" technology, which serves to make the letters and words on the screen look more printlike in their appearance. Before, it was tiny and buried at the button of the keyboard. We also appreciated that the home button is now much more prominently displayed on the side of the device, right in the middle above the "Next page" button. The Kindle 2's keyboard comes in handy when entering notes and annotations while reading (they're saved), keying in text for searches in the Kindle Store, and typing in URLs when surfing the Web. As with the BlackBerry and other shrunken QWERTY keyboards, you enter text using your thumbs. ![]()
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