It’s hard to say why US giant Amazon held off on color-capable e-book readers for so long, but now it’s here: the Amazon Kindle ColorSoft Signature Edition. In a Wired interview, Amazon consumer devices executive Panos Panay said that developers have been working on it for more than two years.
The home page of Kindle ColorSoft Signature Edition also shows cover images of color books, if available.
Now the Kindle ColorSoft Signature Edition (289.99 euros) is here. Like its monochrome colleague, the Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition (199.99 euros), it has a display with a 7-inch diagonal and can therefore be best compared with it.
The 7-inch color display of the Kindle ColorSoft Signature Edition offers a resolution of 300 ppi in black and white mode and 150 ppi in color mode. It suggests an E-Ink display with Kaleido 3 color technology. However, Amazon traditionally keeps quiet about the manufacturers of the components and calls them all “Amazon Displays.”
That was a reading sample from our Heise Plus article “Kindle ColorSoft: First impressions of Amazon’s e-reader with a color display.” With a Heise Plus subscription you can read and listen to the full article.
