{"id":3784,"date":"2009-02-09T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/2009\/02\/09\/amazons-kindle-2-announced-available-february-24\/"},"modified":"2009-02-09T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T15:32:00","slug":"amazon%e2%80%99s-kindle-2-announced-available-february-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s Kindle 2 Announced, Available February 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B00154JDAI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"361\" alt=\"kindle2_front_side\" src=\"http:\/\/pocketpccentral.net\/rss\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kindle2-front-side.jpg\" width=\"151\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Today, Amazon announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B00154JDAI\">Kindle 2<\/a>, the follow-up to the company\u2019s first Kindle ebook reader released in late 2007.&#160; <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The 10-ounce Kindle 2 features a new, slim design (it\u2019s about the thickness of a pencil), a re-thought key and button layout, 1.4GB of usable onboard memory (up from 180MB) for storage of up to 1500 books, 25% faster page-turns, 25% longer battery life and a 6-inch <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electronic_paper\">electronic paper<\/a> display that can render four times the shades of gray (16 shades instead of 4).<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There are currently 230,000 books available for purchase on the Kindle and Kindle 2 with more being added all the time. You can also subscribe to select newspapers and blogs on the Kindle.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There\u2019s also a new Realspeak Solo text-to-speech feature on the Kindle 2 which allows the device to \u201cread to\u201d users aloud.&#160; No word on how this affects battery life.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The one gray lining in this silver cloud: The Kindle 2 is still $359.&#160; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00154JDAI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=palmsizepccentra&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B00154JDAI\">pre-order the Kindle 2<\/a> now.&#160; The unit will begin shipping on February 24 \u2013 first come, first serve.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nToday, Amazon announced the Kindle 2, the follow-up to the company\u2019s first Kindle ebook reader released in late 2007.&#160;<br \/>\nThe 10-ounce Kindle 2 features a new, slim design (it\u2019s about the thickness of a pencil), a re-thought key and button layout, 1.4GB of usable onboard memory (up from 180MB) for storage of up to [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=3784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}