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Kindle App For My Android Phone

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Amazon tells me that they’re going to introduce a Kindle app for Android Real Soon Now. That’s great news, but they’re being a bit coy about whether it will actually run on my G1. They say it “supports Droid Incredible, Google Nexus One, HTC MyTouch, Motorola CLIQ, Motorola Droid, and many more Android phones.” The MyTouch isn’t all that much different that the G1, but who knows?

(Thank you, Google, for punishing us early-adopters. That would be, oh, about 2/3 of your Android users. At least I didn’t let Google sucker me into an overpriced phone they won’t support after 5 months.)

OK, rant over.

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see how the Kindle app will stack up against Google’s browser-based bookstore, Google Editions, which also enjoys Real Soon Now status.

Written by newdangian

May 18, 2010 at 4:55 pm

Posted in Amazon, Android, eReaders

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  1. [...] Sounds great. But I’ll never see it with the phone I’ve got now. I’m stuck at Donut. I’m hoping I can get to Eclair before December, when my contract is up and I can upgrade my T-Mobile G1. That’s what I get for being an early-adopter. [...]

  2. [...] a comment » Faced with the iPad juggernaut and a dual threat from Google (Android Kindle app and the upcoming Web-based bookstore), eReader manufacturers have done the only [...]


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