![]() ![]() It’s still available on Amazon for $119 (new) and $104 (refurb). Netronix makes several waterproof ereaders, including a couple models for Kobo and the previous Nook model.īarnes & Noble’s last Nook model, the Glowlight Plus, is waterproof and has an IP67 rating. It has an IPx8 rating, meaning it is certified for up to 60 minutes immersion in up to 2 meters of water. Here's a list of ereaders that are currently available in various markets around the world.Īmazon's flagship ereader, the Kindle Oasis 2, is the first Kindle to have a 7" screen and it is also the first Kindle to be released with waterproofing. ![]() The first official release of a waterproof ereader came from Pocketbook, followed by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and finally Amazon last October. Over the past 4 years quite a few ereaders have been released by a bunch of companies. You just finished reading Apple to Unveil Lower-Cost iPad Next Week (?) which was published on The Digital Reader.Īmazon has popularized waterproof ereaders, but they are far from the first company to release one. I lost my iPad, in 2016, and now will be a good time to replace it. The lowest-priced 9.7" model now costs $329, down from $499 when the iPad launched 11 years ago, so it makes perfect sense that Apple could be planning to cut the price again. This is of course only a rumor, but it does make sense and it fits with Apple's past trends.Īpple has cut the price on the iPad several times. Last year, the global educational technology market generated $17.7 billion in revenue, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan. ![]() But as the company has driven toward mass-market and higher-margin products in recent years, Google and Microsoft have had success breaking into classrooms with inexpensive laptops and tablets. Steve Jobs made schools a priority for Apple early in its life. The company will also showcase new software for the classroom, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private plans. In Chicago, the world’s most-valuable technology company plans to show off a new version of its cheapest iPad that should appeal to the education market, said people familiar with the matter. It’s also a rare occasion for an Apple confab outside its home state of California. The event on Tuesday at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago will mark the first time Apple has held a product launch geared toward education since 2012 when it unveiled a tool for designing e-books for the iPad. In its first major product event of the year, Apple will return to its roots in the education market. The invite suggested that it would focus on the ed tech market, and now it appears that the presentation will center on a price cut for the iPad.Īpple is preparing to introduce new low-cost iPads and education software next week in a bid to win back students and teachers from Google and Microsoft. You just finished reading Do You Think the Next Kindle Should Have a Have Color-Shifting Frontlight? which was published on The Digital Reader.Īpple has a launch event scheduled next week. How about you? Do you think Amazon should add an adjustable frontlight to the next new Kindle? I'd never use this feature, but I could be in a minority here. Plus, I've just never liked the idea whenever I used it, it felt like a bug rather than a feature, and I kept wanting to "fix" it by returning the colors to normal. I myself have never found much use for the feature yes, changing the light emitted from a screen so it has an orange or reddish tint has been proven to actually help make it easier to get to sleep, but I have found it is just as effective to simply put down the gadget at some point in the evening and then not pick it up again. ![]() Kobo was the first to release an ereader with an adjustable frontlight color, the Kobo Aura One, in late 2016, and then they followed that up with the second-gen Kobo Aura H2O, in the summer of 2017.Īnd now even the Nook Glowlight 3, and the Tolino Epic, have frontlights where you can adjust the color temperature. Amazon, Apple, and Google had all added a a similar feature to their reading apps, and Kobo had even released a couple ereaders where you could adjust the color of the frontlight. Like my counterpart, before Amazon released the 7" Oasis, I was expecting that their next Kindle would feature an integrated color-changing frontlight. One of the surprising details about the second Kindle Oasis is how it doesn’t have a frontlight where you can adjust the color temperature. ![]()
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