| Amazon has confirmed to Good e-Reader that they are opening up two pop-up stores in California to take advantage of the holiday season. The first location will be in Westfield San Francisco Centre and Sacramento, in the Westfield Galleria at Roseville. Amazon has been testing the waters of retail for a number of years with pop-up stores, lockers and vending machines. Industry experts are wondering if this is a larger push for permanent physical retail presence, similar to the likes of Apple's retail stores. There will be a number of devices that will be on display with product specialists on hand to answer any questions or concerns. The Kindle Voyage, Kindle Basic, Kids Tablet, HD6, HD7 and Amazon Kindle Fire 8.9 will be available. Amazon will also be showcasing their Fire TV and Fire Phone and they will also insure you can buy a data plan with AT&T for all of the new hardware. It is interesting to note that the Westfeld Galleria has hosted their fare share of pop-up stores in the past. Google opened up a Play Store there recently that allowed people to play with Nexus phones and tablets. Amazon Confirms Pop-Up Store Locations in California is a post from: Good e-Reader |
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Amazon Confirms Pop-Up Store Locations in California
Kindle Basic Touch vs Kobo Aura H2O
| Welcome to another Good e-Reader Comparison Video! Today we check out the Amazon Kindle Basic 2014 Touch Edition and the Kobo Aura H2O. Both of these readers are the latest and greatest and are getting a ton of media attention. Today, we look at the overall reading experience with eBooks and PDF files and also evaluate the big differences between them. The Kobo H2O has a dynamic home screen, whenever you open up books, the internet browser or other core functions, they are added to the home area. This enables you to quickly access content, without having to constantly jump into various sub-menus. The Kindle Basic home screen is basically your library shelf. Kobo gives more flexibility and control over the eBook reading experience, but the advanced options may be overwhelming for some users. They tend to have scroll bars that you can employ to augment the size of the font and even allow you to load in your own font styles. Amazon aims for a more simplistic system, which just gives you different font sizes, margins and line spacing. The Basic really excels in reading PDF documents. You can pinch and zoom to isolate particular regions and you get a small preview window on the top left corner. This assists you in determining where exactly you are in the document if you have really zoomed in. One of the things I really liked was the ability to use highlights, take notes or use the translate feature on PDF Files. The H2O does not have pinch and zoom, and instead you have to utilize manual zoom, which is not very intuitive.
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Multi-User Account Support a Reality With Lollipop
| Android has let us create multiple user accounts for a while now, as long as you were doing so on a tablet; it wasn’t until Lollipop that we could do this on a smartphone. As you decide how best to take advantage of this new feature, keep in mind that the first user you create will be branded as the device’s owner and enjoy all of the administrator-type privileges that go along with that role. Each user can install their own apps and personalize the account, but there are a few important things to keep in mind: uninstalling an app for one account will affect everybody (who has the app installed), decisions configuring permissions and access for apps will affect everybody on the device, and the device owner can remove entire accounts (and all associated data) at any time. Your initial reaction might be that it seems less likely more than one person would share a smartphone, but I would suggest that there are two main reasons to utilize multiple user accounts: creating a work versus home profile to segregate apps and data required for each, or to keep everything on your device safe from your toddler’s amazingly capable hands when you let them play during your next waiting room stint (especially when you learn that the device owner gets to decide whether secondary accounts can make or receive calls, or send and receive text messages).
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