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Amazon Kindle 2 Review

August 10th, 2009

Well this review is going to start as a funny story, for starters, I never actually bought this gadget, I actually won this gadget via a Twitter contest, yes a Twitter contest, and a month later Amazon announce the new Amazon Kinlde DX, but since I didn’t spend a single cent on this gadget I didn’t feel bad about it. There now you why this review is happening.

Lets beginning, and my review of the Amazon Kindle 2 starts like this, I live in Puerto Rico, and… Amazon doesn’t ship the Kindle to Puerto Rico, so I had it ship to my Florida house, and then down to Puerto Rico, almost a 2 months wait till I really got it. Now… buying books on the Kindle or/for the Kindle, another EPIC fail, I needed to setup one-Click buying with my Florida address. and I also need a USA base credit card, Come on! Amazon… I got Sprint back home, no need to make me jump so many hoops.

Om to the device itself, the Amazon Kindle 2 its pretty small and thin, but very very tough, feels firm on the hand. WhisperNet thanks to Sprint in Puerto Rico works great, I got a Edge connection almost everywhere, and some 3G speeds in some places, pretty cool. Book reading is also EPIC, books load fast, switch pages nicely, and the Text-To-Speed is a huge plus. Sound quality is great, and picture quality is perfect. Experimental services like a built-in HTML browser and MP3 play back work, with a few glitches, but Hey! Experimental means Beta.

Bottom line, I won this gadgets, Amazon lowered the price recently, and with my minimal experience with eBook reader, Hell! I’m not a big reader. I think this is the best/fully feature eBook reader on the market right now. If you want a eBook reader, forget the Sony one, go for the Amazon Kindle 2, or the DX version. Go to Amazon.com for more info.