In case you just lately ordered a Kindle Colorsoft Signature Version, you’ve got some unlucky information. As reported by Good e-Reader, Amazon is briefly halting shipments of its first colour Kindle as a consequence of show points.
As we reported, some early customers of the Kindle Colorsoft have reported a discolored yellow space on the backside of the display. This drawback has considerably impacted person critiques, leading to a median ranking of solely 2.7 out of 5 on the Amazon web site.
Anybody who has ordered or preordered a Kindle Colorsoft and has not but obtained it might want to await cargo between November 9 and 18 within the U.S. and till November 26 within the U.Okay. Till then, Amazon is engaged on a software program replace to deal with the difficulty.
Within the meantime, Amazon is contacting early consumers who left adverse critiques to gather info concerning the yellow bar subject. The corporate is requesting system logs and, in some circumstances, asking prospects to ship their gadgets to Amazon’s engineering staff for replacements.
Earlier than the software program repair is launched, Amazon has knowledgeable Good e-Reader that the yellow bar subject is likely to be resolved by bodily rebooting the system and permitting it to stay powered off for a couple of minutes earlier than turning it again on.
Along with the yellowing subject, the Kindle Colorsoft has been shipped with out the promised darkish mode function. This function inverts the colours on the display, making the background black and the textual content white.
Amazon’s U.S. web site now states that this function doesn’t work on the brand new system. It notes: “Darkish Mode is presently not accessible on this system. Clients can allow the same studying expertise inside thousands and thousands of books utilizing the Web page Coloration function, which, like Darkish Mode, inverts the e-book web page colour to black and the e-book textual content colour to white.”
The Kindle Colorsoft, a Kindle Paperwhite Signature e-reader with a colourful show, represents a major growth for Amazon. The primary Kindle was launched in 2007, and since then, this widespread system has obtained quite a few updates, however none included a colour show till now. Little doubt, Amazon will do what it takes to resolve these points sooner reasonably than later.
