The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft’s display issue just got worse

If you precocious ordered a Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, you person immoderate unfortunate news. As reported by Good e-Reader, Amazon is temporarily halting shipments of its first colour Kindle owed to show issues.

As we reported, immoderate early users of nan Kindle Colorsoft person reported a discolored yellowish area astatine nan bottommost of nan screen. This problem has importantly impacted personification reviews, resulting successful an mean standing of only 2.7 retired of 5 connected nan Amazon website.

Anyone who has ordered aliases preordered a Kindle Colorsoft and has not yet received it will request to hold for shipment betwixt November 9 and 18 successful nan U.S. and until November 26 successful nan U.K. Until then, Amazon is moving connected a package update to reside nan issue.

In nan meantime, Amazon is contacting early buyers who near antagonistic reviews to cod accusation regarding nan yellowish barroom issue. The institution is requesting instrumentality logs and, successful immoderate cases, asking customers to nonstop their devices to Amazon’s engineering squad for replacements.

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Before nan package hole is released, Amazon has informed Good e-Reader that nan yellowish barroom rumor mightiness beryllium resolved by physically rebooting nan instrumentality and allowing it to stay powered disconnected for a fewer minutes earlier turning it backmost on.

In summation to nan yellowing issue, nan Kindle Colorsoft has been shipped without nan promised acheronian mode feature. This characteristic inverts nan colors connected nan screen, making nan inheritance achromatic and nan matter white.

Amazon’s U.S. website now states that this characteristic does not activity connected nan caller device. It notes: “Dark Mode is presently not disposable connected this device. Customers tin alteration a akin reference acquisition wrong millions of books utilizing nan Page Color feature, which, for illustration Dark Mode, inverts nan book page colour to achromatic and nan book matter colour to white.”

The Kindle Colorsoft, a Kindle Paperwhite Signature e-reader pinch a colorful display, represents a important improvement for Amazon. The first Kindle was launched successful 2007, and since then, this celebrated instrumentality has received galore updates, but nary included a colour show until now. No doubt, Amazon will do what it takes to resoluteness these issues sooner alternatively than later.