Amazon Announces A Slightly Cheaper Kindle Colorsoft With Half The Storage

Amazon yet launched its first-ever colour Kindle past year, and while nan Kindle Colorsoft was an awesome first effort, nan precocious value of introduction apt put it retired of scope of a batch of people. Well, we person good(ish) news. Amazon has now added a somewhat cheaper Colorsoft to its lineup. At $250, it’s still very expensive, but $30 cheaper than nan original model, albeit pinch immoderate sacrifices made.

At 16GB, nan cheaper Kindle Colorsoft has half nan retention of nan much costly variant, but fixed that astir ebooks seldom inquire for much than astir 2MB of abstraction successful your library, this mightiness beryllium bully enough. If you ain a batch of integer schematic novels and comics (ie nan benignant of media that really makes bully usage of colour display), you tin expect those to hog much storage, but you’d still request a very ample room to commencement pushing towards that 16GB limit.

The cheaper exemplary besides loses nan auto-adjusting beforehand ray and wireless charging from nan Signature Edition, but beyond that, it’s nan aforesaid ereader. Like its pricier counterpart, nan caller Kindle Colorsoft has a 7-inch colour E Ink show pinch up to 8 weeks of artillery life, a useful pinch-to-zoom characteristic and an adjustable lukewarm light. Amazon has besides fixed nan yellow-band rumor that plagued immoderate early units, including our first reappraisal unit.

Amazon is besides offering theKindle Colorsoft Kids, which comes pinch an illustrated cover, 1 twelvemonth of Amazon Kids+ and a two-year guarantee. It besides has child-specific features specified arsenic Vocabulary Builder and Word Wise to thief kids study caller words arsenic they read, arsenic good arsenic support for nan OpenDyslexic font and Bluetooth for audiobooks. There are 2 covers disposable — Fantasy River and Starlight Reading — and parents tin usage nan Amazon Parent Dashboard to negociate and show what their kid is reading.

The Kindle Colorsoft pinch 16GB of retention costs $250 and comes pinch 3 months of Kindle Unlimited included, and nan Kindle Colorsoft Kids costs $270. Both are disposable today, while nan Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition remains $280.