News · 18 May 2010 · MTW Editorial Team
Amazon has just announced that the Kindle application is coming soon to Android. Here are the major feaure sna system requierements:
Read Kindle books on your Android phone
– Get the best reading experience available on your Android phone. No Kindle required
– Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
– Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
– Adjust the text size, add bookmarks, and view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible device
– Read in portrait or landscape mode
– Tap on either side of the screen or flick to turn pagesShop for books in the Kindle Store optimized for your Android phone
– Buy a book from the Kindle Store optimized for your Android phone and get it auto-delivered wirelessly
– Search and browse more than 500,000 books, including more than 96 of 110 New York Times bestsellers. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary
– Find New York Times® Best Sellers and new releases from $9.99
– Get free book samples. Read the beginning of books for free before you decide to buy
– Books you purchase can also be read on a Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible mobile devices
– Kindle newspapers, magazines and blogs are currently not available on Kindle for AndroidTechnical Details
– Requires Android OS 1.6 or greater
– Requires an SD card
– Supports Droid Incredible, Google Nexus One, HTC MyTouch, Motorola CLIQ, Motorola Droid, and many more Android phones
With the release of the Android app this summer it would beintersting to see if Amazon announes a Windows Phone 7 this fall (it’s already available on the PC, Mac, iPhon, iPad, BlackBerry..).
Source: Amazon
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