The excellent news is we now have affirmation that Amazon is about to launch a brand new fundamental Kindle for 2024; the dangerous information is that they’re principally simply re-releasing the 2022 model with just a few minor adjustments—typical Amazon.
The brand new Kindle turned up on the market on a Spanish web site final night time and somebody posted a screenshot of it on reddit. The webpage has been quickly taken down, however all of the pertinent information has already been ascertained.
There’s a brand new inexperienced colour, and the frontlight is 25% brighter, and that’s about it for adjustments. There’s nonetheless no heat frontlight. The ability button remains to be on the underside edge the place it’s straightforward to unintentionally press. There aren’t any web page buttons. No actual upgrades and no innovation in any respect.
There may be point out of higher distinction and smoother web page turns, however these are frequent claims that all the time change into barely perceptible.
Amazon is so uncreative with regards to releasing new Kindles. Hopefully the brand new Kindle Paperwhite can have some precise upgrades (or regardless of the second new mannequin seems to be, but it surely nearly needs to be a Paperwhite since Amazon is simply too unimaginative to give you one thing totally different).
This new Kindle for 2024 has nothing attention-grabbing going for it in anyway. Who actually cares a few brighter frontlight? Most individuals would moderately have a heat frontlight, however apparently that’s asking an excessive amount of.
It nonetheless has 16GB of space for storing, and a 6″ E Ink display screen with 300ppi. Battery life is now rated at 8 weeks as an alternative of 6 so it seems like they did enhance that a minimum of. In addition they modified the scale simply sufficient so covers for the 2022 mannequin most likely received’t match. However the total design is generally the identical because the 2022 mannequin. There are black and blue colours like earlier than, and a brand new inexperienced possibility.
The brand new 2024 Kindle nonetheless isn’t listed on Amazon’s web site but, but it surely’ll most likely present up quickly. The web site that leaked the brand new Kindle says it’ll get launched on October 1st.
