Is This The New Amazon Kindle?
When Amazon first introduced its Kindle e-book reader in 2007, the gadget was almost universally derided for its looks (my take: it had a "sort of late 1970s Battlestar Galactica/Pong/digital watch aesthetic"). But the fugly device appears to have been a big hit for the electronic retailer.
So what do you make of these pictures, which come from MobileRead.com and are purportedly leaked images of the new device Amazon (AMZN) is set to unveil on Monday?
My uninformed opinion: I like it. One of the more practical critiques of the Kindle wasn’t that it looked bad, but that it wasn’t designed that well - in particular, an oversized tab on the side of the gadget made it too easy to accidentally turn pages. So this would-be design seems to have addressed that problem.
As a reminder, here’s Kindle 1.0:
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