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hey guys jon rettinger here earlier this week amazon announced the kindle DX which is the spiritual updates to the kindle two which was released earlier this year now the both be sold side by side the kindle DX won't be available until sometime later in the summer amazon hasn't pinned down a solid release date yet so some of the specs and highlights of the kindle DX and it's got a 9.7 inch e-ink screen as opposed to the six inch screen found on the current kindle 2 DX also has native PDF support and it's got a built-in accelerometer similar to what you found not find out a lot of phones so when you turn the device you can see what's there in landscape now a little bit torn on the kindle DX means i should say that it's going to run you a whopping 489 when it's released that is a huge huge huge price tag especially over the already high kindle to price tag of three hundred fifty nine dollars so now after taxes you're going to be looking at probably over five hundred bucks for a very large screen ereader is it that important to you now I've gone on the record is being a big fan of the kindle to which i own and i was able to get over the significantly high price point because i feel like i can make that money back being a heavy reader by paying a lesser cost for books mostly releases are 999 and a lower costs for magazines heck potentially newspapers as well however that a little bit of leeway is really just shot with now a five-hundred-dollar price point the ology making that money back on the books is very slim and if you do it will be over a long period of time i'm not sure that i can get over five hundred dollar price point barrier entry to there is just so significant so huge and there are many competitors Peggy pedders on the market that offers smaller screens but more features sony has a touchscreen ebook reader and there are a few other ones on the market and some are even coming out potential color eating technology so I'm a little bit torrent also having just bought a kindle too I'm not just not that long ago I feel a bit slighted I'm sure a lot of kindle two owners a few lab it's slide it as well you know we don't have native PDF support now for the kindle to like the amazon kindle DX will have a native PDF support a really big deal if you're a business professional or student and you have to use the device something other than just reading books if you want to email yourself a PDF with the curb kindle to you have to wait for gets converted pay a fee and then it scales it's really not that accurate it's not graphically appropriate things you just look at a whack there's a lot of panning and scrolling the kindle DX of data support is supposed to really remedy that i'm wondering why they couldn't add PDF support natively on the kindle to via firmware update there aren't that many other features that the DX has over the kindle with the exception of a little bit bigger storage space largest screen and accelerometer PDF support but all that aside i just can't see spending five hundred dollars from ebook reader not in this economy doesn't have expandable stored it's not touch screen it's not color essentially looks like a kindle too but gigantic with the keyboard shrunk a little bit you know overall it was still disappointed with the announcement i was expecting you know perhaps a lower price point or some sort of subsidy they are going to be offering discounts for some sort of newspapers but nothing really official has been announced on that yet so I'm not that excited about the kindle DX i'm a big fan at the kindle too but i would have liked to seen amazon lower the price point of the kindle two and hit that kindle DX at the current choose price point of 359 really would have been a sweet spot and probably would have been enough for me to hit pre-order on the computer but i just can't be conscious by five hundred dollars for an e-book reader it's completely asinine to mean you know maybe I'm off-base maybe you think there's a market for if your student and you want to use it through place your text books or potentially about your textbooks you know that's one thing but there aren't that many textbooks that are available in digital format right now and by time or are avail y student the price will have dropped what amazon is doing is just priming the market for a competitor so i'm going to come in offering a larger ebook reader at a lower price maybe it won't have their sinking whispernet system perhaps not to plug it into your computer but I'd be more than willing to download books on my computer sync it up on a larger screen for is typically lower cost would you is having this amazon whispernet going to download books wirelessly worth the cost for you I don't know for me 359 was still a high price to pay but I was okay with it you know so what do you guys think this is just a little bit of a rant on the kindle DX i think it's a great product internally there's a market for I don't think the market is that big I think Amazon is greatly overestimating it so that being said what do you guys think are you gonna get a kindle DX you have any interest in the kindle DX do you have any interest in a kindle to even what would you figured if you liked to seen added you know what my review of the kindle to i said i would have liked to see the touch screen with like doing better navigation what about you've seen better used to real estate space which they seem to have rectified on the DX you know but what are you guys saying you know we leave your comments down below i'm very curious to see i'll definitely read them all for exclusive concepts be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com / John for lakers i'll see you guys at next video