With Amazon’s dominant position as a bookseller, it Could have easily sat on its laurels When it comes to eReaders. Instead its often Do Kindles have led the way in terms of new features – slender designs pocketable, touchscreen interfaces and page backlighting have all PROVED popular. Its latest Kindle eReader is the Voyage, Which Brings a bezel-less display, a high resolution screen and an automatic brightness control.
All of These make the Voyage to tablet- more like device. The rear design reinforces this, mimicking que of the Kindle Fire tablet, with angular lines and the power button que falls neatly under your forefinger, if you’re holding the device in your left hand anyway. The angled rear panel, low weight of 180g and soft-touch finish combine to make this is the easiest Kindle to keep a hold of. It’s slightly sleeker than previous models too, at 162x115x7.6mm.
Around the front, the single pane covers the display from edge to edge with only the merest lip around the edge. It looks great Compared to previous devices, With Their thick, raised bezels; but more importantly it makes it far more natural and Easier to make page turns using left and right swipes, to your finger does not hit the moves it across the bezel.
The Also a smoother screen surface, eradicating the rasping sound and sensation on previous Kindles When you swipe the screen. Also it’s incredibly responsive, now an E Ink screen is never going to react like an LCD, but this is the best we’ve seen to date, starting with the screen refresh to instantaneously with your input. It’s notably faster than the Paperwhite, though admittedly not by much.
On Either side of the screen are pressure-sensitive buttons, Which calls PagePress Amazon. We’re guessing some que Kindle users have bemoaned the removal of physical page turn buttons, last seen on the Kindle in 2012, and this is Amazon’s attempt to placate em. The lower, larger buttons go forward, while the upper ones go back. There’s a tiny amount of physical em give in, and you can Set the sensitivity of the buttons, and the amount of haptic feedback you get When they’re pressed. They work fine, though we find the new touchscreen so good Them That We quickly disabled altogether, letting us rest or thumb beside the screen without accidentally activating em.
The 6in screen may have a smoother finish, but it’s still the reflections resistant to the rougher its predecessor. Beyond que top layer is 300 pixels-per-inch (PPI) screen, up from 212 PPI on the previous Paperwhite. We calculate que to be a 1,430×1,080 resolution, the same resolution on the bigger 6.8in the Kobo Aura H2O at 265 PPI.
Putting numbers aside, the screen on the new Kindle Voyage is fantastic. It’s incredibly crisp, making the old look a little smudged Paperwhite in comparison. We tried to compare the two head-to-head and, Despite the same font and size wellbeing rendered slightly differently on the two screens, the Voyage Comes Out as a clear step up. It’s the best-looking eReader screen yet, with detail and contrast that’s a step ahead of anything we’ve seen.
^ The Voyage side-by-side with the Kindle Paperwhite, click the image to see the full resolution and compare the sharpness of the text
However, at present the screen wellbeing is held back by the software on the device, it simply needs more font size increments to Make the Most of the higher resolution. Out of the eight font sizes on offer, all our staff used one of the bottom three, and wanted more need adjustment of text size in this area of the scale. Generally we found the smallest size too small, but the next one up a touch too big. We Also Understand que a small minority needs very large sizes font, so why not Provide more choice across the whole range?
While the screen is very impressive, it’s the automatic brightness control that’s the real star here. We simply hasnt realised just how little we adjusted the brightness to suit the lighting on our Kindle Paperwhite until we saw the Voyage in action. The brightness shifts smoothly up and down, in a way that did not distract our reading, and keeps the page in sharp contrast in any lighting conditions. You can turn it off of course, plus there’s an additional mode Which slowly dims the text When You’re reading at night, the more your eyes get used to the dark.
The Voyage is the best eReader we’ve ever seen, refining everything from the previous Kindle. The automatic backlight will be very hard to live without When we go back to our own Paperwhite. The display is brilliant, and it could be better still if Amazon give us more options text size. Elsewhere, though, Amazon has strived to Provide Numerous options are the que Voyage lets you read the way you want to.
At £ 169 the Kindle Voyage is not cheap, that’s £ 60 more than the Paperwhite; Certainly and we would not advise Paperwhite owners rush to upgrade. If you have an older Kindle though, and you read it everyday, Then the extra cash is money well spent. Our only remaining point is That We’d like a slightly larger model with a bigger screen, but maybe we’ll have to wait to next Christmas for that. As usual there’s the 3G model too, costing a whopping £ 229, though with the proliferation of Wi-Fi These Days, we do not think it’s worth the extra cash.
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