Amazon Kindle & Kindle Touch

  Amazon have announced their new e-Reader products Today from the popular Kindle series which are smaller, lighter and more affordable. The Kindle e-Reader (picture above) is the most compact, lightest and cheapest from Amazon. It has an advanced 6 inches e-ink display and can turn the pages 10 times faster or download these through wi-fi connection. The QWERTY keyboard is no longer present and the price starts at 79 USD.

   The Kindle Touch has an e-ink multi-touch screen (the same 6 inches size) which increases the battery life. This version supports text-to-speech and mp3 files for audio books - all can be downloaded through the wireless connection. Kindle Touch has a new feature named X-Ray as lets customers see all passages across a book that mentions ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places, topics as well as detailed descriptions from Wikipedia, Amazon encyclopedia with a single tap. The price for this starts at 99 USD. 

There is a 3G version which can offer free 3G connectivity but the price starts at 149 USD.

   I believe the new Kindles will have a real success in e-Readers market, the same as iPad did in the tablets market.

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Huawei Honor

   Huawei have announced their new Android smartphone. Huawei may not be very well known to common users - only as they are manufacturing operators branded phone (like Vodafone, Orange etc) and their main competitor is ZTE. However in the recent years they started to make phones branded with their name in search for their own place on the market. The Honor packs about the latest technology as you can check below:

-- DISPLAY: 4-inch capacitive touch 480 x 854 pixels screen

-- CPU:  1.4 GHz processor.

-- MEMORY:  512 MB RAM.

-- STORAGE:  4GB for internal, microSD card slot up to 32GB.

-- CAMERA:  Primary - 8 MP camera, video recording up to 720p.

Secondary - 2 MP, video chat, video calling.

-- CONNECTIVITY:  3G, HSDPA, HSUPA, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, micro-USB, 3.5 mm headphone jack, A-GPS.

-- BATTERY:  Li-Po 1900 mAh

-- MULTIMEDIA:  touch sensitive buttons.

-- OS:  Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, Adobe Flash support.

-- APPLICATIONS:  Google Apps, social networking.

   Their announcement is very poor in giving more details like what type of display has (AMOLED or LCD). The phone does not look bad and we hope they will release more information soon.

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