At a press conference last Wednesday held at Pace University, Amazon has unveiled their new Kindle DX. This is the larger version of the Kindle e-reader. This press release by the Amazon heads were accompanied by two of the major target markets of this device- the newspaper and as well as the publishing industries.

It was reported that at least on of the universities and newspapers as well, will be testing the releasing of their contents with the use of Kindle DX this coming fall season.

The Kindle DX is currently priced at US $489 since it is yet to be released summer. Amazon is currently catering and taking preorders from highly interested customers.

Basic Information

Screen Measures: 9.7 inches diagonally
Storage: Can hold up to 3500 books (compared to 1500 books – Kindle 2)
* Native PDF reader

Technicalities

Weight: 19 ounces
Storage Capacity: 4GB (3.3 GB available to store book content)
Battery Lifespan: 4 days (with wireless capability on)
Charge Time: 4 hours (can be done through USB 2.0 port)
File Supported: PDF, TXT, MP3, Kindle , Audible, natively unprotected mobi formats,
Supported through File Conversion: HTML, DOC, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP

Comes With

• Power Adapter
• USB 2.0 cable
• Battery
• Quick Start Gide
• Kindle DX User’s Guide (preinstalled as PDF file)
• One-year limited warranty and service

* Two-year warranty, a warranty extension is sold at US $109 separately

This is totally something every bookworm would love to have. And the Kindle DX will also do great for the college students. Now you will not have to go around carrying all those heavy books, you can now just store the info you need in your own Kindle DX.

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