New Kindle X-Ray Feature

One feature that I really like the look of on the new Kindles is X-Ray.

X-Ray on Kindle Fire

Basically, when you are watching a movie and an actor appears, and you think "where have I seen him before", simply click pause and IMDB will pop up and give you details of any actor in that particular scene!

This is a great idea and a very neat feature, and one which I hope will be present on iOS at some point. Would be great if Apple TV had an IMDB app and the ability to do this.

X-Ray on Kindle paperwhite

The new paperwhite e-reader also has a version of X-Ray, which allows you to search through the book for certain characters or terms, and it presents a timeline where these appear in the book. So if a character who has not been mentioned for several chapters suddenly pops up, you can use X-Ray to quickly remind yourself who this character is and when they first appeared.

Again, very very neat and I like this a lot. Will be very useful for people like me who only read a couple of pages a night.

New Kindle Prices

Surprsingly, Amazon have been really quick this time to make nearly all of these new devices available to us in the UK. Sadly, the only exception so far is the new paperwhite e-reader which looks very very nice.

Kindle Fire HD - £159 in 16GB
Kindle Fire HD - £199 in 32GB
All New Kindle Fire - £129

Nice looking devices at good prices, but sorry Jeff - that iPad is still going to take some beating for me!

Amazon introduce Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite

A short time ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took to the stage to introduce some new devices into the Kindle range.

The newest member of the e-reader family is the Kindle Paperwhite which comes with a lighted touchscreen and eight weeks of battery life.



Alongside this were three new Kindle Fire HD tablets, one of which has a larger 8.9 inch screen. The new devices boast improved WI-FI technology along with a feature called Kindle FreeTime which allows parents to set time limits for their children to access the devices.


No information on a UK release date as yet. Hopefully Amazon can be bothered to actually let us have the devices this time. Time will tell no doubt.

I can't say I'm hugely excited about any of these devices though. I think the Google Nexus 7 will beat the Fire HD tablets hands down, and if the rumoured iPad mini appears, then that will sweep all the competition away.

More details can be found at cnet.com for whom I must credit these images from the event.

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