Amazon’s next entry-level Kindle with a brighter screen leaks
by Andrew Liszewski from The Verge - All Posts on (#6R08E)
Amazon's new 12th-gen Kindle will come in at least two colors: black and matcha green. | Image: MediaMarkt With stock of its current generation of e-readers dwindling, Amazon is expected to announce new Kindles soon, perhaps as early as next week. A Spanish retailer has a listing for a new 2024 version of the entry-level Kindle with a release date listed as September 30th, as spotted by Good e-Reader.
The new Kindle will have a six-inch, 300ppi screen with improved contrast and a backlight that's 25 percent brighter than the model Amazon released two years ago. It will also offer faster page turns and a new dark mode that inverts its monochromatic E Ink screen, but there's no mention of it having warm screen lighting or whether it will feature the improved E Ink Carta 1200 screen that Amazon used on the 11th-gen Kindle Paperwhite that debuted...