567657_g1.jpgAnd they quite like it , too. It gets 4 out of 5 mice. Here’s a snippet:

What a difference a display can make All it took was turning on the $380 Amazon Kindle DX (Graphite) second-generation large-format e-reader to see that Amazon’s claims of a higher-contrast display than its predecessor were true. The E-Ink display indeed reflects a significant improvement in contrast, as evidenced by the clarity of the crisp text, and the darker blacks of graphics and words alike.

The blacks, in fact, truly look black; by comparison, the blacks on the original Kindle DX appear dingy and gray. Words on the Kindle DX (Graphite) appear to jump off the page. …

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Paul,

    This review of the new Kindle DX is tempting.

    The big question is which, if any, of the new 3GS and WIFI unit improvements were also snuck into the new DX. The contrast improvement is included, but how about the extended battery life?

    Thanks, Don

  2. Melissa Perenson writes one of these for PC World and then you see it in ComputerWorld, Washington Post, and in MacWorld. She’s quite thorough.

    Don, the recent teardown of the DX Graphite didn’t indicate there was a wifi component in there. But the battery enhancement is said to be more software related. Most of the PDF improvements ought to be installable to the older DX as well.

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