The primary few weeks after Amazon launched the Kindle Colorsoft, a bunch of adverse opinions have been posted on Amazon’s web site, with a number of 1-star opinions due to the frontlight concern and a normal lack of high quality management.
The general ranking for the Kindle Colorsoft was means decrease than another Kindle that’s ever been launched. and it nonetheless is, however issues are slowly bettering. After it first received launched the Colorsoft’s general ranking was caught within the 2.6-star vary, after which it was at 2.8 for some time, however in latest weeks it’s crept as much as 3.0, and now it sits at 3.1-stars. That also isn’t anyplace near the Kindle Paperwhite’s 4.5-star ranking, however issues are slowly getting higher.
Over at Greatest Purchase the general ranking for the Colorsoft is even larger at 3.9-stars, however that’s solely with 44 opinions whole.
It will be fascinating to know what the opinions would have been like if there wasn’t a frontlight drawback. Most colour E Ink gadgets fail to crack a 4-star ranking (besides Kobos for some cause) as a result of some individuals simply don’t just like the look of colour E Ink with the added filter layer.
It additionally makes you surprise who is de facto in charge for the frontlight points on the Colorsoft. Was it an E Ink drawback or an Amazon drawback?
E Ink’s high quality management has at all times been suspect; it’s not simply Amazon’s Kindles. That’s what occurs when an organization monopolizes an trade. There was a second epaper firm, however then E Ink purchased them out and put them beneath in order that they wouldn’t have any competitors.
To Amazon’s credit score, they did admit there was an issue and so they promised to repair it, however whether or not they have or not nonetheless stays in query, and their customer support hasn’t dealt with issues very effectively.
Regardless of all of the adverse opinions, Amazon doesn’t look like having any drawback promoting the Kindle Colorsoft. It nonetheless has a 10k+ bought quantity on the prime of the web page, the identical as different Kindle fashions.
