Amazon released some preliminary information about the Kindle 2.0 Monday morning. Online reaction to the new device has been mostly positive.
Some of the new Kindle's features include:
• An improved display. The new screen is six inches high and can display 16 shades of gray.
• Improved controls. A new joystick helps users navigate through pages. According to Amazon, those pages will now flip 20 percent faster, too.
• More memory. Users can now store about 1,500 books at one time.
• One less tenth of an ounce. It not weighs 10.2 ounces, versus the original's 10.3
There are other improvements, but tech analyst Mark Hendrickson noted the overall sleeker look of the new version.
"It’s much less ugly," he wrote for TechCrunch.com. "Gone is the retro look of the first generation for a curvier and more symmetrical design that — like every other mobile device hitting the market these days — borrows elements from the iPhone."
But despite the Kindle's prominence in the future-tech firmament, it remains a dubious delivery platform for adult content. It only lets users read books, and literary erotica remains a smaller market that the visual kind.
But Booble.com CEO "Booble" Bob Smith pointed out that it took the adult industry to figure out what to do with mobile phones — perhaps all the Kindle needs is time.
"The industry has always been forward-thinking when it comes to technology," he said. "If a new technology comes out and people use it and it's easy to produce content for, then the adult industry will produce content for it."
For more information, visit Amazon.com/kindle.
