SlashPhone » Kindle Mobile http://www.slashphone.com Worldwide mobile phone news, reviews and wireless innovations Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Kindle for Android now available http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-now-available-2810382 http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-now-available-2810382#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:36:07 +0000 Budi Putra http://www.slashphone.com/?p=10382 Dear Android users, are ready to get your Kindle on? Amazon announced that its free Kindle reading apps is now available in the Android Market (requires Android 1.6 or higher). Just go to the Android market and search for “Kindle”. Yeah, this app allows you to access all of your previous Kindle purchases –even if you don’t have your Kindle with you!

Its features including:

  • Search and browse more than 620,000 books, including 108 of 111 New York Times Bestsellers, plus tens of thousands of the most popular classics for free directly from their Android device. Bestsellers such as “Backlash” by Aaron Allston, “Big Girl” by Danielle Steel, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, and “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown, and hundreds of thousands of other popular books are $9.99 or less in the Kindle Store
  • Read the first chapter of books for free before they decide to buy
  • Access their library of previously purchased Kindle books storedon Amazon’s servers for free
  • Synchronize last page read between their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry and Android-powered phone
  • Customize background color, font color, and font size to help ease eyestrain
  • Read in portrait or landscape mode, tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pages
  • Adjust screen brightness from within the app to make reading easier .

Kindle for Android is currently available for customers in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States.
 
There are no full text search and purchasing of Kindle books from within the app capability so far, but Amazon promises to release them in the near future.

]]> http://www.slashphone.com/kindle-for-android-now-available-2810382/feed 0 Amazon to Launch Kindle Mobile eBooks for Mobile Phones http://www.slashphone.com/amazon-to-launch-kindle-mobile-ebooks-for-mobile-phones-104526 http://www.slashphone.com/amazon-to-launch-kindle-mobile-ebooks-for-mobile-phones-104526#comments Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:34:50 +0000 Kim Poh Liaw http://www.slashphone.com/?p=4526 With the announcement of Kindle 2, Amazon is planning to let Kindle 2 to sync with other mobile devices. According to its press release, “Amazon’s new “Whispersync” technology automatically syncs Kindle 2 and the original Kindle, which makes transitioning to the new Kindle 2 or using both devices easy for customers. Kindle 2 will also sync with a range of mobile devices in the future.” Amazon spokesperson Drew Herdener also told the NY Times the company is now working on Kindle books for mobile phones.

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