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Touch test
Ask anyone who shuns ebook readers why they dislike the digital
devices and you'll hear a common theme: they miss the physicality of
books. It's hard to let go of the cover art, the book jacket, the
whisper of pages under the finger, the turning down of a corner to
bookmark a spot...
There's no freshly inked paper to wistfully sniff when this delivery arrives in the post from Amazon. |
The first touch-sensitive Kindle goes some way to addressing that.
Instead of clicking plastic buttons, you simply tap the screen to turn a
page -- or better still, swipe naturally from right to left to flick
through pages. Swiping upwards shifts to the next chapter, or downwards
heads back.
Amazon has clearly thought long and hard about the interface. Tap
anywhere in the right or lower sides of the screen and you'll go
forward a page, or tap a much smaller area to the left to go back. It's a
solution that seems to work well for either right or left-handed
readers. Tapping the top of the screen brings up the menu and toolbar.
Regular Kindle users will notice that the screen on the Touch has
a deeper setback than previous models. This is to accommodate the
infrared system that adds touch technology, without using any extra
sensing layers on the screen itself.
The soft keyboard is one of the more responsive elements of the touch interface, which can otherwise be sluggish. |
Annoyingly, the touch system is not as responsive as it could be.
While the virtual keyboard lets you tap away pretty quickly, menu
buttons and options can be very sluggish, leaving you bashing away at
the screen in frustration.
It's hard to see here but we think the screen on the Touch has the edge over the standard Kindle when it comes to contrast. |
For all the perennial talk of a high-resolution, full-colour,
full-motion video E-Ink technology 'coming soon', the Kindle Touch ships
with the same monochrome 6-inch Pearl display found on all major ebook
readers. Put side-by-side with the latest non-touch Kindle, the screen looks just as sharp and slightly more contrasty -- a bonus for low-light reading.
Books and reading
Those four tiny horizontal stripes below the screen aren't a
speaker -- they're Amazon's homage to Apple's home button, taking you
straight to the first page of the Kindle's home screen.
Amazon has made a few changes to the Kindle's dull text-only home
screen layout. The menu bar has been redesigned to shrink the battery
meter and add wireless and (strangely non-auto updating) clock icons.
There's
also a back arrow, a cart icon to access the Amazon Kindle store, a
search box and a menu button, all of which reduce the number of actual
books and magazines on your home page from nine to seven.
You can flick through home screen pages with swipes only (no taps),
or press and hold an item to call up a pop-up window holding search,
notes and delete options. It's definitely simpler and more intuitive
than previous Kindles although it does take a little getting used to.
Inside a book, just the top menu bar remains, with title, clock,
Wi-Fi and power icons. The progress bar has been replaced by location
numbers (or real page numbers on some titles), and a 'read' percentage.
One disappointment is that the Kindle Touch is slower to turn
pages than its smaller brother; it lacks the smooth page transitions of
the Kindle Fire's LCD screen.
With
the Touch, you have the choice of the device refreshing the screen on
each page turn, giving clearer text but a nasty black flash every time
-- or only every sixth page, which offers better transitions at the cost
of a little text degradation. The Touch is set to refresh every page by
default; try both and see which you prefer.
Social sharing and X-Ray search
If you want to add a note or
highlight to a book, or search for a definition, just press and hold a
word and a menu (eventually) pops up. This is also how you share
passages via Facebook and Twitter.
Tap the top of the screen to get the same shop, search and menu
buttons as the home screen, plus three further options at the bottom.
The first controls typeface and font size; the second lets you skip
straight to the start of the book, the end or points in-between; in most
books, the third button is a simple Sync option to refresh your cloud
purchases and progress. But on some books, this will say X-Ray instead.
This
new feature aims to centralise and supercharge the contextual search
functions, bringing up a list of key terms in the book along with a
barcode-style image of their distribution throughout the text.
X-Ray's choice of which terms to extract seems a little random,
but it actually works quite well. Tap on a character or concept to get a
brief Wikipedia introduction, quotes from the text and a link out to
the full Wikipedia article.
Click on any X-Ray term to see the first few paragraphs from Wikipedia -- you can then click through for more. |
You can filter results by page, chapter or book, and split them between people and the vaguely-worded 'Terms'.
X-Ray should prove particularly useful for students but, at the
moment, there's no way to tell which books have the feature and which
don't, even at the point of purchase.
Build and bulk
The Kindle Touch is a shade larger all round than the standard
Kindle, adding 1.5mm to its waistline. It's heavier too, to the tune of
just over 40g. Those differences may sound small but they add up to make
the Touch just that little bit less attractive for extended reading.
Having said that, it's still lighter and smaller than the Kindle Keyboard 3G.
Light -- if slightly heavier than the earlier Kindle -- and well made, the Touch can also cope with a spot of light rain. |
The biggest change in practicality comes with the touchscreen. If
you're not actively reading, always hit the tiny power button at its
base to put the Kindle to sleep.
In our tests, we forgot to do this several times and must have
accidentally brushed against the screen. Coming back to find yourself
halfway through a book or even in a completely different title is
irritating.
The infrared touch system on the Touch is more prone to this than
LCD multi-touch devices, which generally use capacitive technology
requiring fingers or skin to activate. The flipside is that you can turn
pages with the end of a pencil -- or gloved fingers -- if you want.
We did not test the battery fully, but you can expect the quoted
21-hour battery life with wireless on, or 30 hours with it off, to be
about right. Like the new Kindle, the Touch ships with only a USB cable
for charging; a UK wall adaptor costs around £13.
The Touch has a standard grey plastic case, lacking the classy etched Kindle logo found on the Fire. |
Other features
Unlike the newest standard Kindle, the Touch comes with speakers
and a headphone jack. Text-to-Speech works well enough, if you like the
idea of being read to by a stupid robot, and audiobooks sound fine. As
you'd expect, they're much better through headphones (not supplied).
Avoid the basic MP3 player.
Text-to-Speech is great for those with visual challenges but it's no substitute for a real audiobook. |
The Touch has 3GB of user memory -- enough for around 3,000 books.
Plus, of course, there's all the free cloud storage you could want for
Amazon-purchased titles. For other formats, you can email yourself PDFs,
MOBIs and text files. PDFs render well enough (although, again, slower
than the cheaper Kindle).
Pinch-to-zoom is clumsy and imprecise
but will get you there in the end. Unlike the standard Kindle, you can't
adjust the screen rotation for PDFs on the Touch.
You might expect the touch interface to give a new lease of life to
Active Content -- the mostly free, mostly gaming apps Amazon offers in
the US only (although expect them to come to the UK soon). And the
touchscreen is certainly easier than the standard Kindle's cheap
four-way pad to enjoy the gentle word and number puzzles that make up
most Active Content.
For anything timed or reaction-based though, the sheer sluggishness of the screen quickly becomes a pain.
The unobtrusive Special Offers, also currently US-only, are a
worthwhile option. Not only do they shave $40 off the selling price of
the Wi-Fi and 3G models, they also occasionally provide some genuinely
attractive offers -- such as a selection of best-selling humour books
for just $1 each. The redemption process is long-winded, however.
Special Offers saves you $40 on the retail price, in exchange for sponsored screensavers and a small advert on the home screen. |
The web browser is still 'experimental', which means you can expect
strange layouts and butchered content. Again, the pinch-to-zoom
multi-touch works well. You might find it useful for viewing text-heavy
sites on the 3G version as web access is free.
Conclusion
Amazon's great leap into the world of touch was inevitable.
Swiping through ebooks, pinching to zoom and pressing to select feels so
natural and intuitive that it's almost impossible to go back to a
traditional Kindle.
On the downside, Amazon has skimped on the
hardware, building the Kindle Touch for a low retail price, with
processing power the main casualty -- it can't keep up with your
fingers.
Even with the handy X-Ray feature and audio features back on board,
it's difficult to recommend the Touch over its cheaper, lighter and
faster little brother.
This HOT Product tend to SELL OUT VERY FAST!!
If this a MUST HAVE product, be sure to order now, to avoid disappointment.
We’ve done the research and spend lots of time for your interests.CLICK HERE to find out where to get the best deal on the Fire Kindle Best Price on Kindle Fire Fulll Color.
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