Amazon Kindle DX : an electronic book

A nice rotating screen without lighting adjustments!
The large screen auto-pivots between landscape and portrait mode, making it extremely nice on the eyes. The text isn’t quite as clear as a paper book, but it is nevertheless very similar, meaning that if you are not particularly paying attention then it really resembles a printed page! The first surprise is that that there is no button or menu presenting lighting or contrast settings. Consequently, you can’t read in the dark or other poorly lit areas.

The control button: everything is straight forward!
Besides the keyboard, there are very few buttons. The essentials are all down the right hand side, with a Home button allowing you to access your contents index page, Previous Page and Next Page buttons, a Menu button for the settings (Wireless On, Kindle Store, Search, Settings…), and a Back button to take you back a step. Instead of directional arrows, you find a cursor built on 5 functions (left, right, up, down, accept).

Connection options: headphone jack, mini USB and 3G modem
Just next to the horizontal lighting button, to the top, there is a stereo headphones jack (2,5mm). On the bottom you will find two stereo speakers, one to the far left and the other to the right with the mini USB charge plug. We can say that the audio quality is more then sufficient, providing good sound quality! To finish looking at these features, we will state that on the right hand side is the volume button. Finally, an internal 3G chip (EDGE, GPRS, and GSM) uses the Amazon Whispernet network for your connections to the Kindle Store and Internet browsing through the use of your unique user@kindle.com email address.