Amazon Extends Battery Life of Newest Kindle by 85 Percent and Adds Native PDF Reader
Kindle Now Lasts up to Seven Days on a Single Charge with Wireless on, up
from Four Days, and Displays Native PDFs in Their Original Form
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today
announced two new enhancements to the latest generation Kindle—85 percent more
battery life and a native PDF reader. Kindle now has battery life of up to seven
days even with wireless turned on, a significant improvement from the previous
battery life of four days. Battery life with wireless turned off remains at the
previous level of up to two weeks. Battery power management for portable
wireless devices is a complex technical area, and the battery life improvement
announced today is the result of a six month firmware improvement and testing
program.
Amazon also announced today that the 6-inch Kindle now has a built-in native PDF
reader that enables Kindle customers to read professional and personal documents
in their original PDF format without conversion. Kindle is in stock and
available for immediate shipment today at www.amazon.com/kindle.
“Kindle, already the #1 bestselling, most wished for, and most gifted product on
all of Amazon.com, is now even better—with 85 percent more battery life and a
built-in PDF reader,” said Ian Freed, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “These two
significant enhancements are available now.”
To read their personal or professional documents, Kindle customers simply email
PDFs to their Kindle email address or move them over using a USB connection.
Customers that prefer to have their PDF documents converted to the Kindle format
simply type "Convert" in the subject of the e-mail when sending documents to
their “@kindle.com” address.
Amazon also announced today that previous purchasers of the new Kindle will also
receive the 85 percent battery life improvements with wireless on, and native
PDF support via a firmware update automatically delivered via Whispernet
wireless. Native PDF support will also be available for some earlier versions of
Kindle via an automatic Whispernet wireless firmware update.
About Amazon Kindle
Kindle is the revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books,
magazines, newspapers and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch
electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle utilizes the
same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt
for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1
bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened
on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection.
Amazon.com, Inc., seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where
customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and
endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and
other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in
categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics
& Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes &
Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to
in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology
platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business.
Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon
SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments
Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca,
and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms
include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates
otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's
expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth,
new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating
results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims,
fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements,
acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system
interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud.
More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's
financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and
subsequent filings.
Kindle devices are sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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