SlashPhone » Amazon Kindle http://www.slashphone.com Worldwide mobile phone news, reviews and wireless innovations Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:45:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Android Kindle App Obtained New Features From Its Update http://www.slashphone.com/android-kindle-app-obtained-new-features-from-its-update-2311886 http://www.slashphone.com/android-kindle-app-obtained-new-features-from-its-update-2311886#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 02:30:33 +0000 Effie Tjhai http://www.slashphone.com/?p=11886 Amazon Kindle application for Android has just obtained an update. This time, the Kindle app receives many new and much requested features. Kindle surely trying to maintain their position as the top e-Reader application. Undoubtedly, the app will not lost its users interest anytime soon.

Now the Kindle apps has full text search, the ability to add notes and highlights and have them synchronized with other devices, voice search, Wikipedia lookup and more. Here’s more details regarding the updates.

New Kindle for Android features include:

* Search within the book: Customers can either type or speak a word or phrase to search within a book.
* Add, Edit and Delete Notes and Highlights: Kindle for Android is the only reading app for Android-based devices that allows readers to add notes and highlights to books, and have them automatically synchronized between devices.
Wikipedia Lookup: Look up words and phrases in Wikipedia simply by selecting text.
* Shelfari Book Details: For the first time, customers can view additional book details from the books-focused social networking site Shelfari. Readers will find a description of the book, synopsis, summary, cast of characters, and many more features, and be able to view real-time discussions that the Shelfari community is having about the book.
* Orientation Lock: Choose to lock the orientation of their screen in landscape or portrait mode to allow for comfortable reading in any position.

So far, the features has work pretty good and convincing. The Kindle application is available in Android Market, as for the update, it’s in there too.

[via AndroidCommunity]

]]> http://www.slashphone.com/android-kindle-app-obtained-new-features-from-its-update-2311886/feed 0 Kindle for Android Coming Soon for Free http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-coming-soon-for-free-199737 http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-coming-soon-for-free-199737#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 09:19:53 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=9737 Made for Android smartphone users, Amazon is releasing its Kindle for Android edition this summer for its Kindle book store customer. The software will utilize the company’s Whispersync technology, which saves and synchronizes your bookmarks across your Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac and BlackBerry.

“Kindle for Android is the perfect companion application for Kindle and Kindle DX owners, and is also a great way for customers to enjoy over 540,000 books in the Kindle Store even if they don’t yet have a Kindle,” said Jay Marine, director, Amazon Kindle. “We think customers are going to love the convenience and simplicity of having instant access to a massive selection of books from Amazon on their Droid, Nexus, Incredible and many more Android devices.”

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]]> http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-coming-soon-for-free-199737/feed 0 Amazon Launched Kindle Store Optimized for iPhone http://www.slashphone.com/amazon-launched-kindle-store-optimized-for-iphone-135670 http://www.slashphone.com/amazon-launched-kindle-store-optimized-for-iphone-135670#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 05:34:04 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=5670 Amazon.com has launched a Kindle Store optimized for the Safari Web browser on iPhone. The optimized Kindle store offers iPhone and iPod touch app users quick and easy access to the Kindle Store’s 280,000 books, including 106 of 112 New York Times Best Sellers and most New Releases that are available for $9.99 or less. The Kindle for iPhone application was released on March 4 with Amazon’s Whispersync technology.  

 

The Kindle application for iPhone and iPod touch lets customers bring their Kindle books with them wherever they go and takes full advantage of Apple’s Multi-Touch user interface. With the new Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch application

]]> http://www.slashphone.com/amazon-launched-kindle-store-optimized-for-iphone-135670/feed 0 Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch Now Available For Free From Apple’s App Store http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-now-available-for-free-from-apples-app-store-044908 http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch-now-available-for-free-from-apples-app-store-044908#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:00:39 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=4908 Amazon today introduced “Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch”, a free application that lets you access to its ebook with its Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your bookmark across your original Kindle.

The Kindle application for iPhone and iPod touch lets customers bring their Kindle books with them wherever they go and takes full advantage of Apple’s Multi-Touch user interface. With the new Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch application, customers can:

  • Shop for hundreds of thousands of books on their Kindle or online at http://www.amazon.com/kindlestore, and wirelessly transfer the books to their iPhone or iPod touch
  • Access their entire library of previously purchased Kindle books stored on Amazon’s servers
  • Adjust the text size of books
  • Add bookmarks and view notes and highlights

[via iphonebuzz]

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