Kindle gets better battery life, native PDF support
Published: 25 Nov 2009 15:09 GMT
As Christmas approaches, Amazon has announced it has improved the Kindle's battery life when the wireless connection is turned on and will now be offering native PDF support for its e-book reader.
Both the battery-life boost and native PDF support will be available to owners of new Kindles and some older models via a firmware upgrade.
In a press release, Amazon said the Kindle now has battery life of up to seven days with wireless turned on compared with four days previously. However, battery life with wireless turned off remains the same (around two weeks).
According to the release notes: "Battery power management for portable wireless devices is a complex technical area, and the battery-life improvement announced today is the result of a six-month firmware improvement and testing programme."
For more on this story, see Kindle gets better battery life, native PDF support on CNET News.
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