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According to a press release, Kindle Colorsoft “uses an oxide backplane with custom waveforms for fast performance and a higher contrast on both color and black-and-white content. Its custom Colorsoft display includes a new light-guide with nitride LEDs that, when combined with our custom algorithms, enhances color and increases brightness, all without washing out details.”
The Kindle Colorsoft is being reported as the more colorful version of the Kindle Paperwhite, offering all the same benefits as its black-and-white predecessor.
“All the things you think about with Kindle — high resolution, long battery life, fast page turns, good fluidity — we weren’t willing to sacrifice those,” Keith told attendees.
But what do real-life tech experts have to say about the new Kindle Colorsoft?
At the demo event was The Verge ‘s editor-at-large, David Pierce , who, in his review, called Colorsoft “a more expensive Kindle Paperwhite with one neat new trick.”
“The most obvious drawback is that when there’s a color image on the page, the device does a full flashing refresh every time you turn the page,” he noted. “You can pinch to zoom on most images, and in my demos the image will zoom smoothly but pixelate until it refreshes a moment later.”
Pierce’s main concern is that “all the screen flashing might get annoying as you navigate through a long graphic novel.”
In a TikTok video, TechRadar highlighted the Kindle Colorsoft’s additional benefits , including its 32G of storage and the capacity to display 4,000 colors. According to them, the new e-reader is a “hot ticket.”
The Kindle Colorsoft retails for $279.99 and is currently available for preorder, with shipments going out on Oct. 30.
