My Kindle has arrived. I recorded a quick unboxing video (embedded below), and will post some more comments/thoughts about it later. It seems to fit fine inside my geek bag, along side my EEE PC, so I am happy about that.
So far I would say my favorite things about the device are:
- Ease of setup. I think Amazon did a nice job here.
- The screen is amazing. I have never seen an eInk display before, and I am very impressed.
- The ability to play music while I read, and play Audible books just works flawlessly. The speaker is very nice for this size device.
- The keypad is quite usable, if a little clicky. I am used to the Blackberry, so thumb typing is not an issue.
I think that Robert Scoble and everyone else who complained about accidentally bumping the buttons must have bigger hands than I do (or perhaps they just like to complain :$). It is a total non-issue for me thus far. I have only bumped a button once, and that was when I was trying to get the back cover off. Read with the Kindle in the included case and it works great.
The only downside I have noticed is that if you want to highlight something across multiple pages it does not work. You need to shrink the file size down so that it al fits in one page. Kind of annoying, but not the end of the world.
Unboxing My Kindle