Comments on: Kindle 2 teardown

By: Gene Venable

Gene Venable — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:55:46 +0000

Yes. Let’s say someone offered a permanent connection to the internet for a flat rate, no monthly payment whatsoever? What would that be worth?

The kindle gives you that for $300.

Who give a better rate? Remember, flat rate, no monthly charge. As far as I know, there IS no other choice. I would be interested on any contradictory information.

By: Hahaduh

Hahaduh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:49:12 +0000

Well for all you guys who say that the kindle is for just reading you’ve lost the point. The kindle does more then just one thing. You can use it to browse the web. You CAN use it as an mp3 player. You can store your personal work files. You can do tons of things that they didnt intend for you to do and thats the fun part.

By: SfromWG

SfromWG — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:00:06 +0000

i can pay a midget to read me books in bed for $400

By: Joe Galvin

Joe Galvin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:54:12 +0000

I want/need a Kindle2 + Iphone + Ipod + GPS + e-mail that I can toss in a backpack and not worry about it getting busted up.

Guess I have to wait a year or two.

By: Blair in West HollyWeird

Blair in West HollyWeird — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:59:24 +0000

The cost is unsubsidized. It covers the parts, labor and future use of the 3G with Sprint. No contracts, no annual fees. True they make a profit on the things, but E-Paper is still not popular enough to be cheaply made. With the added cost of a cover a d insurance, this device is about $435 in all. But in the end you are getting it for convenience of many books in a light and compact piece of equipment and books accesible in under a minute. No shipping costs, no traveling to a bookstore, no gas, parking and snacking costs. Plus cheaper books than new prices on Amazon. Plus some of the books also run $6 and $4.

By: JimXugle

JimXugle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:51:38 +0000

So has anyone tried using that Cellular card in a laptop?

By: derwin

derwin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:25:20 +0000

i like how the screen shows where the kindle died mid-load, like the frozen expression on a murder victim

By: hypoxide

hypoxide — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:46:34 +0000

is this thing capable of running linux?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:03:55 +0000

@w00tb0t
as far as I know, it doesn’t have wifi, only EVDO cellular wireless.

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:03:06 +0000

$9 for a book on a $400 machine is too much. I can get books for anywhere between $.69 and $4 used.

Is the Kindle2 quite awesome? Sure. It just costs too much, especially right now.

By: w00tb0t

w00tb0t — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:55:14 +0000

hmmmm, wireless you say, this will soon become a meme I think, but I wonder if someone could get the card into monitor mode and run airodump-ng or such.

By: O Mattos

O Mattos — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:48:54 +0000

If this thing is just an ebook reader, why does it have a 533Mhz processor – that seems like overkill just to render a page of text every few mins.

Surely they could have much better battery life if it had a really low end processor.

By: 50m30n3

50m30n3 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:37:49 +0000

I still prefere books, simply because they are much more rugged.
Yo can put them in a bagpack and throw them in a corner without fear to kill the LCD or the HD in a laptop.
Hope some guys port a really free Linux kernel to it, without that DRM crap. Since it’s ARM based, I think this will happen soon.

By: TexasLottoNumbers

TexasLottoNumbers — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:25:32 +0000

great post, thanks….

By: mike

mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:46:51 +0000

Your laptop and smartphone may have great screens for their purposes, but they have terrible screens if what you want to do is read ebooks on them for long periods of time. Standard LCDs cause all kinds of eye strain problems when reading on them for hours, while the screen on the Kindle doesn’t.