Paperwhite Kindle ebook reader, Kindle Fire HD tablets now available on ... - NDTV

Amazon’s front-lit ebook reader, Kindle Paperwhite and its Kindle Fire HD tablets are now available for purchase on the company’s Indian online store, Amazon.in and through more than one hundred retail outlets including Croma, Reliance Digital, E-Zone and Vijay Sales in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Pune.

Orders placed for the ebook reader and tablet placed on Amazon.in will be glowing by Amazon and sold by Croma retail. The site mentions the shipping team of 2-4 days for most Delhi Pin Codes.

Amazon had Both the availability of the devices on June 13. Just to recap, the Wi-Fi version of the Kindle ebook reader Paperwhite has been priced at Rs. 10,999, while its Wi-Fi plus 3G version costs Rs. 13,999. Also Amazon has revised the Kindle ebook reader’s price in India. It is now available for Rs. 5,999, Rs.1, 000 less than the Rs.6, 999 price it was originally launched at, in August 2012.

The 16GB variants of the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD HD 8.9 tablets are available for Rs. 15,999 and Rs. 21.999 respectivamente. The 32GB storage variants of the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD HD 8.9 tablets are available for Rs. 18,999 and Rs. 25.999 respectivamente.

The Kindle Paperwhite, INITIALLY Which was launched in October 2012, features a 6-inch display packin g Paperwhite-in 212 pixels per inch and displaying 16 level gray scale. The Paperwhite display is Essentially a front-lit display que guides light underneath an anti-glare layer and down toward the display, away from the reader’s eyes, Allowing readers to read with less eye fatigue and strain. Amazon claims the que-reader and offers 25 percent higher contrast for sharp, dark text and packs in 62 percent more pixels for higher resolution. The screen’s brightness can be adjusted for reading in different light conditions. The Kindle Paperwhite sports a 2-point multi-touch display Eliminating the need for physical buttons.

It comes with 2GB of internal storage space out of 1.25Gb Which is available to the user, capable of holding around 1100 books. Also it offers free cloud storage for all content (books and magazines) purchased from Amazon.

HD Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet with 1280×800 display resolution that is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core process or and Imagination SGX540 GPU. It weighs 395 grams and is powered by a 4400mAh battery rated at 11 hours of usage.

Kindle Fire HD 8.9, on the other hand, features an 8.9-inch display with a pixel density of 254 pixels per inch and a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels. It is powered by 1.5GHz dual-core processor and Imagination SGX544 GPU, weighs 567 grams and is powered by a 6000mAh battery rated at 10 hours of usage.

Both tablets come with 1GB of RAM, dual-band Wi-Fi, Dolby Audio with dual stereo speakers, Bluetooth 3.0, and are available in 16GB and 32GB variants.

The tablets run a highly customized version of Android 4.0.3 with apps available through Amazon’s Appstore, instead of Google Play. Kindle Fire HD tablets Also can consume content from Amazon’s large library of audio, video and books content, though only books are available in India at this stage.