Back on July 28, after testing the new Kindle 3 with 3G and Wi-Fi for half an hour, I gave the newest Amazon device a pretty strong “Wow.” I’ve been using Kindles now for 32 months and have been through every model and every Kindle App but one, but it was clear to me almost immediately that Amazon had done some wonderful things with the new release, all while maintaining its new $189 price point. (More about that price point later, of course, but the initial thing to say about the $189 price point is that, while it may...

Kindle 3s are now sold out. Orders placed today are expected to ship around September 4. Of course we don't know how many were produced, so we don't know what to make, if anything, of this....

From Amazon Kindle Review. I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere: Here’s are the new fonts Kindle 3 and Kindle WiFi now support - 1. Chinese Traditional and Simplified. This would explain the rumors of Amazon getting its Chinese subsidiary ready to ship Kindle 3 in China. 2. Japanese. Japan is a pretty big market and this should allow Amazon to take a shot. 3. Korean. Obviously lets Amazon target North and South Korea. 4. Cyrillic. This will allow support for Russian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Mongolian, Tajik, and other languages....

 SEE THE MAIN NEW KINDLE INFO SECTION for details. This image at the left shows how much smaller the new Kindle 3G/WiFi and Kindle WiFi-Only are when seen next to the Kindle 2 International model. I saw this image from Amazon when reading Wilson Rothman's excellent summary for MSNBC of the new Kindle features, putting it all into perspective.  It was refreshing after reading another report, one representing the Kindle as a giant reptile that won't die although the unnamed writer really wants it to be buried. "HANDS-ON WITH AMAZON'S ZIPPY, ALLURING...