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hey guys John Ranger here with an unboxing for you of the Amazon Kindle 2 this is an e-reader so it's a way to read books without the paper let's go ahead and unbox it this is straight from Amazon it's the packaging that will come in open it up the obligatory big knife now let's go ahead and dig in this is a little bit on the expensive side for devices it'll run you about three hundred and fifty nine dollars u.s. right now it's only available on the US and unlike the first Kindle this does not come with a cover the cover is another $30 I'm sure you factor that into your purchase so you're probably looking at around four hundred dollars total here we've got the Kindle cover this should be a decay for a symmetry let's go ahead and open this thing up first just in cardboard very eco-friendly from Amazon with a little pull tab here so go ahead and pull that open the packing stuff there alright take that off this is my first digital reader I've ever had some very curious to see what it looks like you can see there's a little some symbols and letters in there and it says Amazon Kindle and kind of embossed black and it says Kindle stead on Fire inspire stir up catch fire or become animated so here's the actual cover itself and another little flap that was in and this one does feel like it's made out of actual leather does pass the smell test it's got some cushioning in here to protect the device a little diagram showing you how it fits in rotate and snap but that's not what you guys are here to see so this is the cover which I think everybody should definitely have the Kindle the front of the device actually doesn't have any protection but what your reading is actually the eating display without anything covering it so here is the Kindle itself box just says Kindle some information on the side you know that assembled in China the little pull tab and nothing on the box go ahead and pull the tab here I'm very excited to to use this for most books even new releases and New York Times bestseller they're about $10 on the Kindle Store and you know to get a hardcover book is generally twenty-five to thirty dollars so you're looking at a anywhere from ten to fifteen dollars possibly $20 savings on your book so if you do a lot of reading you can't recoup the cost of the device that way open it up again it's got the sort of embossed letters flowing and here's the tray that it comes in some more of the embossing right there no cushioning or anything just straight cardboard so here is a device itself it's got that same sort of embossed color on the front and get that in the camera you can see it's sort of flowing right there this Amazon Kindle right in the middle that'll pull tab on the side and on the back so those more little lettering let's go ahead and open this thing up yet another tab that one's a little bit easier cardboard just comes off and there's a another cover here and pull that up and there is the device itself Amazon Kindle it's my first time actually holding one of these it has a nice weight to it but not too heavy it's only a very thin I'll show you guys some size comparisons in a moment it says right here step to the slide and release the power switch above your screen will refresh in a few minutes plug in your new Kindle so we'll go ahead and do all that in just a moment let's see what else comes in the box here you can pull up this tray it's actually made of a very hard plastic here this is not cardboard so that's nice to know things are protected in there but it does showing you that it is recycled so that is always nice we've got Amazon Kindle users guide and getting started probably never use that not a directions kind of guy but if you are go ahead and take that here is the Charter sooo this looks like very thin for the us adapter right there and this actually uses a microUSB so it's a standard port which is very nice a lot of cell phones use micro USB and this right here pulls right off plug just in via USB cable so you can actually use this to charge your iPod or any other USB device it's kind of handy thing to have around plug that back in let's take a look at the device itself Amazon claims that this is actually thinner than any 3G phone you can actually download books directly on here using Amazon's whisper net essentially what that does it uses Sprint's 3G and now older legacy networks to download books right to the device so you actually never ever have to use a computer download your books which is very cool it does sort of look like a first gen iPod so let's do a some size comparisons for you and get a sense of how big inhale ticket is I'll show you there it is with the iPhone it's significantly bigger here it is with the pantech matrix pro you can see a pretty decent size comparison right there Emily compared a normal sized hardcover book for you to you guys can see the difference here here's one of my favorite books Jack Welch's winning can see that it is significantly smaller so I'll stack that on top you can see a difference obviously what you're gonna read is just the screen but size-wise is a significant difference let's go ahead and do a thickness comparison to and see if what Amazon says is true here's the iPhone only phones I have laying around right now and that is definitely a difference right there you can clearly see that the Kindles thinner and certainly it's gonna be thinner than the pantech as well here I've got these Samsung epics big difference there also so let's go ahead and take off the plastic and I'll give you guys a hardware tour very quickly so the cool thing about this eating display is that the battery is only used when the image on the screen is changing so right now this is actually on the screen but it's not using up any battery which actually makes it very very neat so on the front of it we've got a put it down here I'll zoom into guys conceal it but there we go almost a blackberry style QWERTY keyboard obviously that's intended for thumb typing for looking at books and such this have a full row of number keys across the top and I can use the keyboard and that much but before you need it for it does seem to be very usable so one of the complaints people had with the previous Kindle was the next page button extended across the entire side of it when you picked it up for just a reading now I take that next page button there was a lot of complaints about it so it looks like amazon fixed that with this Kindle you can't turn the next page button by hitting the outside you actually have to push the inside to make it click so that should eliminate the accidental presses no click and there's the click so there's your next page button on top is a home button which takes you back to obviously your home it shows you what you have downloaded previous page next page so if your left or right handed a menu button a back button and now a five-way little joystick toggle that also pushes in for that fifth way the previous Kendall had a scroll wheel this one actually now lets you go left and right and kind of scroll all around here so that's a very nice they did get rid of the removable battery unfortunately so the battery is sealed in here but they do are amazon is claiming improved battery life so let's see if that's true got the two speaker grills on the back for the speaking functionality so what this will actually do is will read the text to you it sounds very computer and mechanical but it will still read the text which is kind of neat actually I don't give you guys a demo of that in an upcoming video the battery is sealed so nothing else to see you there on top of the device you've got your power button and your 3.5 millimeter headset jack so you can listen to your books from headphones if you're on airplane nothing else really on the side nothing on the side there except for a volume volume up and down rocker and that's about it guys on the bottom is the charging port for that microUSB so as that is just about it let's see this has any power in it at all slide and release the switch above do that let's see what happens say I got a follow step 1 and plug this thing in first so I will do that and I'll ship nope there it goes doing something Amazon Kindle get that little bar flashing let me know that it's loading I'll leave that there that you guys see this in real time and again like I mentioned the e-ink none of this is using any batteries only battery that's being used right now is just moving this bar across the top and the screen feels pretty secure but I wouldn't want to throw this in a backpack and risk of something getting damaged on it so definitely the case and the cover is gonna be something you're really gonna want to invest in so when you buy a Kindle it actually registers it to your Amazon account so your information should already be there so this turns on it should say John's Kindle at least in theory so let's see if it does that once it finishes loading refreshing it's a little icon up it right there letting you know that it's downloading and syncing welcome to Kindle alright I'll go ahead and look at that later let's go home my Kindle so it looks like that's all taken care of I have to sync it up possibly on the computer maybe I didn't put my account information correctly when I purchased it nope there it goes refreshed Jonathan's Kindle now it says right in the upper left hand corner so it really did a very nice job of taking itself up automatically it's downloading an item right now welcome Jonathan from Jeff Bezos who is uh the heads of Amazon so that's very cool I'm just navigate it's in that little line now guys I'm gonna go give this a charge and actions already got a decent charge in it but I'm gonna go use the device and stay tuned the rest of the week for new videos showing some software features how to download a book and at the end showing me a full review of the device hope you guys enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on 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