The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft brings a color screen to the Kindle and retains its trademark low-power and easy-on-the-eyes e-ink display.
The device is lightweight, soft-to-touch, and comfortable to view with extremely wide viewing angles.
The color screen, however, shows slow performance when reading color sources, and sometimes formatting is not ideal, while the processing speed and screen refresh rate show up.
While the device is excellent for books, reading comics and magazines is a more ponderous experience than it is on a tablet.
The color screen does add a touch of class and modernity to the Kindle, but it doesn’t enhance the act of reading on one.
The Colorsoft is brilliant and a recommended buy, but mostly because it’s a Kindle and not really because it has a color screen.
It’s equally easy to jump into the Kindle Store, find a book, and immediately purchase and download it something you can’t do through the iPad’s Kindle app.
The Kindle Colorsoft is available to buy now and comes in only one color and one storage space option, costing $280.
For personal files, there are various options to transfer them over, including through the Kindle app on your phone or connecting it physically to a computer.
The Colorsoft's battery lasts up to eight weeks, has a maximum brightness of 94 nits, plus the device has an IPX8 water resistance rating.