Kindle 2 Released – Hideous
Feb/090
Amazon has released the Kindle 2, roughly a year after the release of the Kindle 1.
They seem to have bowed to every complaint leveled against the original and altered the new version accordingly. The result: Everything that was great about the original is gone, leaving an ugly flat thing that looks less like a book and more like the bastard child of a Sony reader and an iPhone.
I get the feeling I might be in the minority here, but I liked the original design. I thought the way it looked like a book in its cover was endearing, and I never had any problem with pressing the page turn buttons when I didn’t want to turn a page. Needless to say, I won’t be upgrading. I likely will, however, be hunting for lower prices on the Kindle 1’s of those who do.
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