EDIT: After launched for 9 months, Amazon has added free international 3G wireless (coverage in over 100 countries) to its best selling Kindle 2, and cut its price for $100. The Kindle DX, which is larger than the Kindle 2 and has native PDF support, is now $230 more expensive than the Kindle 2. Personally, I’ll go for the Kindle 2 because it is more handy (I love the ereaders because they are "mobile ebook readers"). The Kindle 2 has now added native PDF support as well, making itself a more well-rounded ebook reader.
When it comes to different functions, the Apple iPhone would top the Amazon Kindle 2, but let’s look it for the purposes of reading a book, which is what the Amazon Kindle 2 was created to do.
The Amazon Kindle features a larger screen, to make for easier reading than you could do with the iPhone. The iPhone screen is but 3.5 inch diagonal color screen while the Amazon Kindle 2 features a 6 inch screen with 16 levels of gray for higher resolutions. The Amazon Kindle 2 also features re-sizeable type for those that have a little trouble with small type.
The Kindle 2 also offers basic web-browsing features on text-based websites such as Wikipedia and Google. The screen gives a "paper" like appearance, and the pages flip over much faster than those in the Kindle 1.0. This wireless access is free to purchasers of the Kindle 2, so there only other fees you’ll pay are for the books that you buy. You can buy bestsellers to read on the Kindle 2 starting at just $9.99 per title. The iPhone currently cannot connect to Amazon to purchase such books. I’m not sure you would want to anyway, given the size of the iPhone’s screen. It’s too difficult to see the type properly.
The Amazon Kindle 2 can subscribe to various newspapers and it will be delivered to your Kindle 2 daily, and this won’t be possible with the iPhone. And with the Amazon Kindle 2 you can store the purchases on the Amazon servers for later retrieval, and connect anytime to retrieve a book, free without depending on finding WI-FI hotspots.
All in all, if you want a telephone then buy an iPhone, but when you want to read a book, why trouble yourself with the small print and screen of the iPhone? The Amazon Kindle 2 is better by far, with a larger screen and re-sizeable type too!
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