The first Kindle app to be upgraded to allow viewing of Magazines and Newspapers is here and (lucky me!) it's the Android App that I run on my phone. No doubt this will drive even more speculation that a Kindle Tablet is just around the corner (of course, if you jailbreak your NOOKcolor and get the
Kindle App in the Android market, you'll have a Kindle tablet before anyone else). I've added a few photos, below, so that you can both compare the layout on the K3 and the phone, as well as see an article with a color photo and the same photo, zoomed to full size. Click on any one of them for a larger view.
It's all very readable on the phone, but this would be just
AWESOME on the iPad! But, what I am most excited to see? When I used SEARCH in my archives on the phone (yes, unlike the iPad, you can type in a name and get all the matches at one time), I had two weeks worth of
The New York Times there to choose from. Amazon has said that they were bringing Buy Once, Read Anywhere to their apps, along with Magazines and Newspapers, and this looks to be the first indication of that. Those same issues are NOT available in the archives from the iPad or a second Kindle device on my account, only from my phone with the new
Kindle for Android App. Poking around on
The New York Times subscription page, I found a tiny little addition:
Which seems to indicate that having back issues in the archive is the new normal. So, in a multi-Kindle home, if the subscription is on one Kindle, you can also read it on any Android device that is on the same account!
If you have an Android device with the Kindle app, be sure to sign up for your
TWO MONTH! free trial of
The New York Times (
$19.99 Month). The normal 14 day free trial is being extended for new subscribers, thru February 15, 2011. I haven't tried, but I suspect you can get this same free trial offer on each of your Kindle devices (but no need on Android, if you don't mind retrieving it from your archives, rather than having it pushed to the phone automatically).
I will add one warning: If you subscribe to something on your phone, you will want to have an unlimited data plan (or at least, a fairly high limit) or only use WiFi when running the Kindle app, so that it syncs with no charge. That's also true of some of the books I've looked at with Audio/Video content (one was over 100 MB), as well as some graphics intensive books (a Bible study guide I looked at was over 32MB, due to the maps).
New Features on the Kindle for Android App
- Read over 100 newspapers and magazines
- Sample and purchase content using an integrated store
- Customers can now share book reading progress
- Double tap on images to zoom in
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 pages
Shop for books and magazines in the Kindle Store- Search and browse more than 750,000 books, including 107 of 111 New York Times bestsellers from $9.99. If you are a non-U.S. customer, book availability may vary
- Read over 100 newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Reader's Digest with high resolution color images.
- Subscribe to a newspaper or magazine and have each edition automatically delivered, or purchase individual issues.
- Customers who receive newspapers and magazines on Kindle can download recent editions to their Android devices from Archived Items. Many newspapers and magazines are supported, and more are on the way.
Technical Details- Requires Android OS 1.6 or greater
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