This is going to be a mini-review. I’ll follow up later with a complete review.
Screen Contrast Improvement – The first think I can tell everyone is that it looks like Amazon addressed some contrast issues. Side-by-side, the text on the DX is noticably darker. I could tell as soon as I hit the Menu key, but got out my Kindle 2 just to verify. -
Navigation – Its nice to have the Previous page button on the right, but I would have appreciated the full set of nav buttons on both sides. I’m a lefty, but like many old-school lefties, use my right hand for a lot of things (since they where still trying to turn lefties into righties in the 60′s). Not too happy about having to turn it upside down to read with the left hand. That is going to be fine for reading, but any annotations or web browsing is gonna be pretty painful.
Screen Refresh – This seems to be slower in a side-by-side test, maybe because the DX has more to refresh? I uploaded an image heavy 86MB PDF and page refresh was slow. It was quicker, but still a little off on a smaller PDF. The text doubled weirdly before settling into the next page’s text.
Kindle Store – I finally can see the book cover images under the recommendations section; a nice change, but a dropped ball just went bouncing by. I couldn’t get landscape mode for the Kindle Store.
Final Dilemma – PDFs
Do I want to lose full text search in PDF documents just so I can navigate by page numbers? Just verified no search and no highlighting.
Last quick note. I didn’t think that I would like the size, but its looking like I’m going to have to find a bigger purse.
