Amazon Kindle Touch impressions (video)

Probably the most three major devices launched at today’s Amazon event, the Kindle Touch is aimed firmly on the latest touchscreen Nook and Kobo devices. Like those readers, the recent Kindle is predicated around an infrared touchscreen, within the place of a physical keyboard, making the device a great deallots smaller than the Kindle 3 . The touchscreen in all fairness responsive, and the article flips through pages quickly with a swipe or a faucet, refreshing about once every six pages or so, a rate about on-par with that of its chief competition. a role like performing a search however, requires a far larger screen refresh — still, activities like these and typing are performed quite quickly for an E-Ink device. The hunt function itself is very precise, letting the user locate instances of factors like character names throughout a text. In all, it looks as if Amazon has produced a worthy competitor to the gap-leading touch devices — and the $99 / $149 price tags for the WiFi and 3G versions certainly don’t hurt. Try out a video of the device after the break.