Kindle Paperwhite
The new Kindle Paperwhite is now available for purchase on Amazon.it. This new model is a 6.8 '' anti-glare screen, a battery that promises up to 10 weeks of battery life, adjustable light tone, USB-C charging and 8GB of storage. The selling price is € 139.99.Amazon Offer New Kindle Paperwhite (8 GB) - Now with 6.8 '' screen and adjustable light tone, with advertising € 139.99
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The official product presentation states: "Kindle revolutionizes the reading experience for its customers, making it even more comfortable thanks to premium hardware, with improved performance over the previous generation. , a completely redesigned user interface and a compact, water-resistant design that allows you to enjoy reading anywhere, anytime. The new Kindle Paperwhite includes all the features that have made Kindles the best reading device , including: Whispersync, Book Covers, Word Wise and Accessibility. "
We also report that the new Kindle Paperwhite is made with 60% post-consumer recycled plastic and 70% die-cast magnesium equally recycled. .
This new K indle Paperwhite is also available for € 149.99 in an "Ad Free" version. In the official description of the product we can read: "The version With advertising (also known as" With special offers ") shows you a sponsored screensaver when the device has a locked screen or is in standby."
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The New Kindle Paperwhite Is Still the Best for Just Reading
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Sony may have been the first big company to get ebook readers with electronic ink screens into the hands of consumers, Amazon’s Kindle has since become the de facto e-reader of choice for most buyers. The newest Kindle Paperwhite, the fifth generation of Amazon’s flagship e-reader, remains the best E Ink device you can buy if all you care about is reading.
The Kindle Paperwhite 5 and the Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition I tested aren’t a complete overhaul of the popular ereader, but they do incorporate some useful features borrowed from the pricier Kindle Oasis, as well as other devices that e-readers now compete with (including smartphones). The most notable change, however, is that Amazon will no longer be offering a cellular model of the Paperwhite 5, which was one of the biggest selling points of the Kindles for years. Wireless access to the Amazon e-book store is now wifi only, and while that does limit where users can acquire content (think of a far-off vacation destination) it’s really not hard to find wifi access these days, so it makes sense for Amazon to finally transition away from built-in cellular access. It’s doubtful most users will even miss it.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature EditionAmazon Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature EditionWHAT IS IT?The latest version of Amazon's flagship e-reader which introduces a larger screen, screen lighting with color temperature adjustments, wireless charging, and (finally!) a USB-C port for tethered charging and syncing.
PRICE$190 for the Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition, $160 for the Kindle Paperwhite 5 Kids, and $140 for the base model Kindle Paperwhite 5
LIKELarger screen feels like a genuine upgrade, and warmer lighting makes reading at night easier on the eyes.
DISLIKEWireless charging is neat, but precisely placing it on smaller Qi pads is a challenge.
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A Small Screen Upgrade That Feels Much LargerThe most obvious upgrade on the Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE is its larger E Ink Carta HD touchscreen that gets a bump in size from 6 to 6.8 inches, but maintains the same 300 ppi pixel density that makes it all but impossible to see individual pixels with the naked eye.
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The Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE includes a larger 6.8-inch E Ink screen with much smaller bezels, but the same 300 ppi pixel density.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
That might not seem like a big upgrade, but it makes the Paperwhite 5 SE’s bezels much smaller and generally makes the e-reader look considerably more modern compared to the Paperwhite 4.
A screen that sits flush with the bezels makes it much easier to perform swipe gestures that start from the edge of the display.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
The Paperwhite 5 SE’s screen still sits completely flush with its bezels, which is not only important for completely waterproofing the e-reader—you can still read in the bathtub with it, or during a hurricane, without worrying about it getting wet or dunked—but it also makes performing various navigation gestures that require swipes from the edge of the screen much easier to perform.
The pricier Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition includes a sensor that allows for automatic brightness adjustments on the screen lighting based on the surrounding conditions.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
A Warm, Cozy GlowThe new Paperwhite 5 models bump the five LEDs used to illuminate the Paperwhite 4's screen up to 17 in total now: a mix of white and amber LEDs. It makes the screen illumination look perfectly even (despite coming from the edge), and if you opt for the Signature Edition you’ll never have to waste precious seconds manually adjusting the brightness slider because it does that for you automatically using an added sensor. (I still prefer to make these adjustments manually, and have been keeping this turned off.)
The Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE now uses 17 white and amber LEDs so that color temperature adjustments can be made on the screen’s lighting.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
Amazon has finally brought the ability to change the screen lighting’s color temperature to the Paperwhite line (it was previously available on the pricier Kindle Oasis), and you have the ability to manually adjust the warmth or coolness to go all white or all amber, the latter of which is so intensely orange that it’s like staring into a sunset. But while the screen lighting on older Kindles had sometimes made them appear too blue, with the amber LEDs turned off, the screen on the Paperwhite 5 SE looks very neutral and white.
The color temperature of the Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE’s screen lighting can be adjusted manually, scheduled at a specific intensity, or adjust automatically based on the time of day and your location.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
The color temperature adjustments are designed to accommodate the time of day you’re using the Kindle—due to that whole thing about how screens with blue-ish lighting might mess with circadian rhythms and make it harder for you to fall asleep—but instead of using a sensor for automatic adjustments you can either manually set the warmth by adjusting a slider, set up a schedule for when the amber LEDs will turn on and off at a specific intensity, or opt for an automatic mode which uses your location (based on your wifi connection and IP address) to gradually warm and cool the screen throughout the day.
Better Charging OptionsThere’s almost certainly a warehouse somewhere still filled with 15 trillion microUSB ports, and it will be decades before every gadget maker on earth stops including the menace. But thankfully, the Kindle has finally joined the USB-C camp with the Paperwhite 5, with a charging and sync port on the bottom that doesn’t care which way you try to insert a cable.
Goodbye microUSB, hello USB-C.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
If you splurge on the Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE, you’ll actually be given another way to power up the e-reader: wireless charging. It’s been a welcome feature on devices like smartphones and even wireless earbuds, but here it’s a feature that probably sounded better on paper (the real stuff, not the E Ink stuff). Kindle wireless charging works, but given the device’s size, placing the e-reader perfectly onto a charging pad or puck for the power to flow can be tricky. Thankfully, I’ve actually found that Apple’s MagSafe charger does stick to the back of the Kindle Paperwhite 5 SE when it’s properly aligned with the e-reader’s receiving coil (Amazon makes no claim of the Kindle being MagSafe compatible) but otherwise it can be hit or miss a few times before you see the device start charging.
The Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition also supports wireless charging, but perfectly plopping the e-reader on a Qi pad can be hit or miss.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
Is it Worth the Upgrade?If you’re a devoted Kindle user firmly entrenched in the Amazon camp with countless purchased books already in your library, then the new Kindle Paperwhite 5 is a no-brainer. The larger screen not only shrinks the bezel so the e-reader looks better, it also gives you more screen real estate to fill with text—or boosting font sizes if, like me, your eyes are starting to feel their age. The jury may still be out on the benefits of using a screen with a warmer color temperature at night to make falling asleep easier, but the warmer hues definitely feel easier on the eyes in the wee hours of the morning.
But as good as the Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition is, you’re probably better off going with the base Paperwhite model, which is $50 cheaper, unless you struggle to fit your ebook library of thousands of titles into just 8 GB of storage. (Which is highly unlikely.) Wireless charging isn’t a huge convenience here, and making brightness adjustments manually isn’t terribly difficult if it saves you half a Benjamin.
The Kindle Paperwhite 5 Signature Edition is all about the reading, where as devices like the Onyx Boox Nova Air includes stylus support for note taking as well.Photo: Andrew Liszewski - Gizmodo
If you’re legitimately looking to splurge on an E Ink device, the Kindle is actually one of the more basic e-readers you can buy today. Not only are e-readers from the competition adding features like note-taking and stylus support, making them more capable, devices like the Onyx Boox Nova Air run Android, which means you don’t actually have to say goodbye to your collection of Amazon ebooks or even the Kindle interface when switching e-readers. You can just install the Kindle app and feel right at home. The $350 Onyx Boox Nova Air is an expensive upgrade, no doubt, but Kobo has just introduced its stylus-compatible Sage, which is just $260, or about $70 more than the Paperwhite 5 SE.
But if all you want to do is read, you won’t find a more streamlined experience than what the new Kindle Paperwhites are offering.