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Kindle DX graphite??

Postby mmlife on November 14th, 2010, 12:43 am

Hi

Is anyone using the Kindle DX graphite to view the pdf texts and Mp3 audio. if so how is it going?

Kind Regards

Michael
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Re: Kindle DX graphite??

Postby mmlife on November 23rd, 2010, 11:36 pm

I guess not; so I will have to be the first.

My Kindle DX graphite is on its way and when I've used it a bit I'll post a review. At this stage I know the DX does not have the 3.0 firmware of the Kindle 3 which is much better for PDF's and the MP3 function is very very basic (primarily used for playing background music) but the battery life and screen resolution is so hard to pass up that I'd be happy to combine it with a Ipod at this time.

Cheers Michael
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Re: Kindle DX graphite??

Postby mmlife on December 15th, 2010, 1:30 pm

So far the DX Graphite is proving very good for PDF viewing of the Vietnamese course. The UI is fairly clunky in my opinion but I have substantially improved things with the addition of a second OS by Duokan. The Duokan OS is a beta OS which is constantly being improved and it is much better in terms of customizing the UI. It is far superior for PDF viewing and allows for PDF navigation by individual chapters as well as bookmarking areas of interest. The MP3 player is much more advanced but lacks a rewind/fast forward button but at least I can choose which lesson to listen to and call up the MP3 UI at will unlike the Amazon OS.

The battery life with the 3G/wifi turned off is spectacular and this combined with the viewing pleasure of e-ink technology is what sold me of a Kindle over a Ipad.

If Duokan or Amazon offer a feature rich MP3 player in the future then the DXG will be my ultimate language learning machine.

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