Apple iPad vs. Amazon Kindle- Who’s the Winner?
Posted on February 1, 2010 by by benrichter
Amazon’s Kindle just received new competition with Steve Jobs announcement this week regarding the Apple iPad. Everyone wants to know which device is better and why. To give you a little insight into the iPad and Kindle we have examined the specs and pricing. The winner still comes in with the Kindel 2 as the number one eReader, but if you want more from a small handheld device the iPad definitely wins for multi-use tech equipment.
The Amazon Kindle is 6” diagonal with E Ink display. It is 8×5.3x.36 inches in size with up to 1,500 book storage. You can download books in under 60 seconds with 3G wireless for global coverage. It also has a native PDF support, text to speech, whispershync, and rotating display all for $259.00. Amazon offers more than 400,000 books with 2GB of internal storage. You can read up to 1 week with wireless on for the battery life, and it takes approximately 4 hours to charge. The Kindle does have expandable storage with an SD memory card.
The Apple iPad provides dimensions of 9.56×7.47x.5 inches and a weight of 1.5 pounds. The display has an LED backlit with multi- touch display. It is 1024×768 pixel resolution and offers a fingerprint resistant screen. Like the Kindle the iPad offers 3G and it has WiFi. However, the iPad has a lot to offer that the Kindle cannot compare to. It has 16, 32, and 64GB capacity for storage in a flash drive. It also has the 1GHz Apple A4 processor. The built in battery will last for 10 hours of surfing on the web, video watching, or listening to music. For reading books the battery will last longer.
The iPad also offers multi-languages, and works on the Mac OS. The iPad also has a color screen unlike the Kindle. So, why do we say it is still secondary as an eReader? Well, if all you want is an eReader device the iPad is a little excessive. It starts at $499.00 for the 16GB Wi-Fi device. If you want it to have WiFi and 3G at 16GB of memory you are looking at $629.00. The Kindle offers enough space to save 1,500 books on the global version with 3G. For many people this is enough because they are really using it as an eReader device of books, magazines, and newspapers.
The Apple iPad costs just as much as a laptop with less memory. Sure you have a device that is a great size to carry around, as opposed to the laptop, but solely as an eReader the iPad is a bit overdone. It does combine email, phone services, internet surfing, music, and videos with being able to read books, so eventually the iPad could be the future of everything. Well, once the technology becomes less expensive.
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not sure where you get your information from but ” iPad also offers multi-languages, and you can buy it in two operating systems: Windows or Mac” the iPad most certainly does not come in windows. fool.
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the 16, 32 and 64gb sizes are storage not memory as well, double fool!
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There are so many things missing from the iPad who would buy that? no body. No usb port, no hdmi port, no multitasking, no true high definition, no drag and drop, no sd slot, no flash, no camera. What exactly does it come with again?
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Thanks for your comments iPad and andy. The post has now been updated.
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