Amazon announces a slightly cheaper Kindle Colorsoft with half the storage
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Amazon announces a slightly cheaper Kindle Colorsoft with half the storage
The Kindle Colorsoft with 16GB of storage costs $250 and comes with three months of Kindle Unlimited included. Amazon is also offering theKindle Colorsoft Kids, which comes with an illustrated cover, one year of Amazon Kids+ and a two-year guarantee. Both are available today, while the Kindle Color Soft Signature Edition remains $280. The Kindle ColorSoft Kids costs $270 and is also available today. The ereader has a 7-inch color E Ink display with up to eight weeks of battery life.
Amazon finally launched its first-ever color Kindle last year, and while the Kindle Colorsoft was an impressive first effort, the high price of entry likely put it out of range of a lot of people. Well, we have good(ish) news. Amazon has now added a slightly cheaper Colorsoft to its lineup. At $250, it’s still very expensive, but $30 cheaper than the original model, albeit with some sacrifices made.
At 16GB, the cheaper Kindle Colorsoft has half the storage of the more expensive variant, but given that most ebooks rarely ask for more than around 2MB of space in your library, this might be good enough. If you own a lot of digital graphic novels and comics (ie the kind of media that really makes good use of color display), you can expect those to hog more storage, but you’d still need a very large library to start pushing towards that 16GB limit.
The cheaper model also loses the auto-adjusting front light and wireless charging from the Signature Edition, but beyond that, it’s the same ereader . Like its pricier counterpart, the new Kindle Colorsoft has a 7-inch color E Ink display with up to eight weeks of battery life, a handy pinch-to-zoom feature and an adjustable warm light. Amazon has also fixed the yellow-band issue that plagued some early units, including our first review unit.
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Amazon is also offering theKindle Colorsoft Kids, which comes with an illustrated cover, one year of Amazon Kids+ and a two-year guarantee. It also has child-specific features such as Vocabulary Builder and Word Wise to help kids learn new words as they read, as well as support for the OpenDyslexic font and Bluetooth for audiobooks. There are two covers available — Fantasy River and Starlight Reading — and parents can use the Amazon Parent Dashboard to manage and monitor what their child is reading.
The Kindle Colorsoft with 16GB of storage costs $250 and comes with three months of Kindle Unlimited included, and the Kindle Colorsoft Kids costs $270. Both are available today, while the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition remains $280.
Amazon expands the Kindle Colorsoft family with a cheaper version
Kindle Colorsoft 16GB is cheaper than the Signature Edition. Comes with extra storage, auto-adjustable light, and wireless charging. Kindle Colorsoft for Kids is essentially the same as the 16GB model, but with the added bonus of a year’s worth of Amazon Kids+. It costs £259.99, while an annual subscription to Amazon Kids+ usually costs £38 for Prime members, £68 if not. Both of the new Colorsoft models are available to order from Amazon now. US, European and Australian prices are to follow, with UK and Australia prices to follow in the coming days. The Kindle Color soft Signature Edition is available now for £269.99.
Amazon first introduced its full-colour Kindle at the tail end of last year, with the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition taking the company’s e-readers to the next level.
Ideal for reading comic books, seeing cover art as intended for the first time, or adding coloured notations, the device lives up to its flagship status. Yes, there were some issues with the display on some early units, but those have seemingly been ironed out since.
Now there’s a couple of new models being added to the Kindle lineup, with a cheaper option and a version just for kids.
The Kindle Colorsoft 16GB is basically the same as the Signature Edition but with half the storage, a couple of features removed and a friendlier price tag. Available for £239.99 (rather than the £269.99 for the 32GB original), it also comes with three months of Kindle Unlimited.
You don’t get the auto-adjusting front light or wireless charging on the Signature Edition, but everything is similar.
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That means it comes with a 7-inch full-colour display that offers a 150 ppi resolution in colour mode, 300 ppi in black and white. And while there’s no auto-adjusting light, it still offers a manually adjustable warm light for reading in the dark.
Battery life is claimed to last for “weeks” and the reader is IPX8 rated, so is waterproof enough for reading by the pool without worry.
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The other model that’s been launched at the same time is for younger readers. The Kindle Colorsoft for Kids is essentially the same as the 16GB model, but with the added bonus of a year’s worth of Amazon Kids+.
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This allows children access to a library of more than 1,000 curated ebooks that are age appropriate. The reader also sports dedicated features, including Vocabulary Builder and Word Wise to help readers to learn new words and their meanings. There’s also an OpenDyslexic font that can be chosen, plus Bluetooth connectivity to listen to audiobooks through headphones.
The Kindle Colorsoft for Kids also comes with a choice of two vibrant covers – Fantasy River or Starlight Reading. It costs £259.99, while an annual subscription to Amazon Kids+ usually costs £38 for Prime members, £68 if not.
Both of the new Colorsoft models are available to order from Amazon now. US, European and Australian prices are to follow.