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Amazon released first generation Kindle
It was the only kindle with expandable memory, and was worth US$399.99 -
Amazon announced the Kindle 2
It was available for purchase February 23, 2009 -
Amazon announced the Kindle DX.
It had the biggest screen so far. It was also the thinnest Kindle to date and has an accelerometer, which enables the user to easily rotate pages between landscape and portrait modes when the Kindle DX is turned on its side. -
Amazon reduces the price of the kindle 2 from the original $359 to $299.
Amazon reduced price of the Kindle 2 -
Amazon announced the third generation of the Kindle, called the Kindle Keyboard
This Kindle was also called the “Kindle 3” or “K3” -
AT&T stores officially started sales of the Amazon Kindle.
Lots more Kindles were being sold in different stores. -
Amazon began a program that allows college students to rent Kindle textbooks from three different publishers for a period of time.
College students can rent kindle textbooks. -
Amazon announced the fourth-generation Kindle Basic and Kindle Touch
the fourth-generation Kindle features a slight reduction in weight and size. Kindle Touch is able to connect to the Kindle Store, download books, and access Wikipedia. The Kindle Touch began to ship on November 15, 2011 (U.S. only) -
Amazon announced Kindle Fire
It was released for $199 and has a 7 in IPS color touchscreen display. This was the first Kindle without an E Ink display. Its web browser is the Amazon Silk cloud-accelerated browser. However, unlike previously released Kindles, it has no 3G option, but only Wi-Fi. It has 8 GB of storage and a projected battery life of up to eight hours. -
The Kindle Paperwhite (1st generation) was released on in the United States.
It has a 6 in, 212 PPI display (an almost-XGA resolution of 758×1024) with built-in LEDs to illuminate the screen, and has 2GB of storage (1.25GB usable). -
Amazon announced the Kindle Paperwhite (2nd generation)
The Paperwhite 2 features a higher contrast E Ink Carta display technology,better LED illumination, 25% faster processor (1 GHz) that allows for faster page turns, and better response to touch input compared to the original Paperwhite. -
Amazon announced the Kindle Fire HDX
The third generation of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet line. It is available in 7 in and 8.9 in screen sizes, with starting prices of $229 and $379. -
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