Amazon's first color Kindle has just started shipping and readers are already complaining

Amazon's first ever colour ereader has only conscionable gone connected waste and users who've received their early orders are already unhappy, pinch immoderate returning nan Kindle Colorsoft aliases exchanging it for a caller one.

As first reported by The Verge, a portion of yellowish is marring nan bottommost of nan Kindle Colorsoft show for immoderate users, starring to a alternatively dismal 2.6 prima standing (at nan clip of writing) connected nan Amazon listing page successful nan US.

In fact, nan discoloration isn't azygous for each users. As per nan Reddit thread connected this problem, immoderate users are besides seeing nan discoloration on a vertical separator arsenic good arsenic on nan bottom. Others aren't excessively bothered by nan yellowing, but they person returned their instrumentality owed to "a area speckled pinch dormant pixels".

Not everyone seems to beryllium miffed by their acquisition nevertheless – different Kindle Colorsoft customers look really happy pinch their caller ereader and nan personification reviews connected Amazon are mixed.

It's arsenic yet unclear whether nan discoloration is owed to a package aliases hardware problem but, arsenic per a station connected nan original Reddit thread, Amazon says it's alert of nan problem and is moving connected a fix. That could bespeak it's conscionable a package glitch, but if nan lighting connected nan surface isn't even, it's apt much owed to faulty hardware and a firmware update whitethorn not help.

We haven't yet received a reappraisal sample of nan Kindle Colorsoft present astatine TechRadar, truthful we haven't knowledgeable this for ourselves, and nan short clip we spent pinch nan instrumentality astatine its media motorboat successful October showed nary specified problem.

The Verge, however, says nan "discoloration is much evident successful pictures than successful existent life" and their reviewer wouldn't person picked up connected nan problem if users weren't complaining astir it arsenic much.

A portion of maine is now a small gladsome that I won't get to spot nan Kindle Colorsoft successful personification until 2025 arsenic that's erstwhile it releases successful Australia (where I americium based). By past Amazon would person fixed nan rumor and I'll astir apt person what could really extremity up being nan best Kindle ereader ever made (we'll see). For nan early adopters, though, it's a existent shame that a celebrated instrumentality that costs astir $300 is shipping pinch a flaw.

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