The Bite Magazine - Autumn/Winter 2024 - Issue 36

Amazon’s First Colour Kindle Has Arrived Images courtesy of Amazon bitegadgets S ince Amazon introduced the original Kindle 17 years ago, they have continuously improved the reading experience. They’ve extended battery life, improved speed and contrast, increased dis- play sizes, and more while growing their library to more than 15 million titles worldwide. Now, they are combin- ing these improvements with their next leap forward: the 7-inch Colorsoft display, specifically for reading, with no harsh glare or intense light of a conventional backlit screen. Along with features like storage for thousands of books and access to millions of titles from the world’s best e-book store, Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition packs a suite of innovations that make every hue and shade pop. These include custom-formulated coatings between the display layers to enhance the colour, a light guide with mi- cro-deflectors to minimise stray light, and an ultra-thin coating in the display stack to improve optical perfor- mance. Amazon has built the display on an oxide back- plane for sharper contrast, faster page turns, and better image quality. The result is an ideal colour reading experience, whether users are scrolling through colour covers in their Library or the Kindle store or paging through a travel guide, cook- book, comic, graphic novel, or anything else that deserves nature’s full palette. Users can now highlight in yellow, orange, blue, or pink and search for their highlights by colour. If they wish to get closer, they can pinch to zoom. Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition also offers a water- proof design, USB-C and wireless charging, up to eight weeks of battery life, and an auto-adjusting front light. https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-colorsoft-signa- ture-edition/dp/B0CX8YKQ2H