Tag: Kindle
Kindle for Android Is Here
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jun.29, 2010, under Gadgets, Latest Web Technologies, Trends
Starting right now, Android owners can download a free Kindle app for reading e-books on their devices.
With the newest class of 4.3-inch-screen Androids about to flood the market, we couldn’t imagine a better time for releasing this app on the Android Market
. Both the immensely popularHTC EVO and the upcoming Droid X have the large screens and high resolutions that just scream “digital media,” whether that media is HD video or a good book.
The Kindle Store currently contains more than 620,000 books starting at $9.99 each. You can preview the first chapter of a book before you buy it, and you’ll be able to customize the screen and font colors, screen brightness and font size to make your reading experience as comfortable as possible.
Like the other Kindle mobile apps, Kindle for Android
saves and syncs your books and bookmarks across all your devices. In addition to the Kindle hardware itself, the Kindle app is now available on BlackBerry,iPhone and iPad. The latter two devices’ apps also include audio and video support.
I myself am an Android enthusiast and the owner of a few Android mobile devices; I think the Kindle software is the perfect application for the Android platform. Still, I prefer my musty old hardcovers from the library and am slightly put off by the $9.99 price for Kindle titles.
What do you think: Will you be using the Kindle app for Android? Will you be buying e-books from the Kindle Store any time soon?
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Hands-On: iBooks for iPhone iOS 4
by Ranju Chaudhary on Jun.22, 2010, under Latest Web Technologies, Trends, What's Happening?
iBooks for iPhone [iTunes link] is now available. Like its big brother on the iPad, iBooks is an elegant, easy-to-use e-reading solution. While we haven’t had a ton of time with the pint-sized version of the app, our first impressions are very positive.
The iBooks interface is smartly designed, and pages and text are rendered extremely well. Simply put, other e-reader applications pale in comparison to iBooks. It’s only too bad that the selection isn’t as good as some of its rivals. The newest version of iBooks supports in-app PDF viewing, as well as ePub files.
Check out this excerpt from our longer iOS 4 Walkthrough video that shows off iBooks for iPhone and compares it head-on with the Kindle app. You can also take a look at the features in the gallery below.
What do you think of iBooks for iPhone? Will you use it to read books on your phone?
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