Amazon e-reader platform; Instapaper premium includes Kindle support for saved articles.
Amazon's Alexa Tablet 12 Pro takes the top of the lineup from the $155 Fire HD 10, offering up to 16GB of RAM and an optional matte 12-inch screen. For people who buy Amazon tablets to read, that screen and a new Kindle mode matter more than the Alexa+ pitch.
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The X4 Pro has a front light, a 72-gram body and no e-book store. Fast Company's reviewer planned to replace its stock software before the device arrived, and the replacement is maintained by unpaid coders.
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The company says it absorbed DRAM and NAND increases for as long as it could. If the cheapest hardware vendor is repricing overnight, a bill of materials with silicon in it should not wait for renewal.
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The DRAM shortage has stopped being a datacenter capex line. Amazon is recovering it at retail, and the arithmetic says the pass-through is only partly done.
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The 2008-era read-it-later app shipped a rebuilt web client, an iOS refresh and voice playback on Android. What the source does not show is where the users came from.
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