Kindle DX Unboxing Photos

Unboxing

The box it comes in:

What's inside:

Packing slip, just to prove that I got what I got:

Toss out that packing slip; where's my DX?!?

Removed from the box. Cover on the left, Kindle on the right.

Again, same as previous verse:

The Kindle, still protected in its box:

The cover:

This is cute. You have to pull a tab to open the Kindle, and this is what's printed on the tab:

Rrrrrip.

Various images of the black inside:

Here's what's printed on the box for the cover:

The DX at last!

When you plug it in, here's the lovely image displayed:

There's always a blurry shot in one of these unboxings. In this case, it's a shot of the keyboard.

After that lovely reading-beneath-a-tree image, the User's Guide appears:

A quick detour to the cover, while the DX charges:

Trying It Out

A few shots of the DX in action:

Same as above, in landscape mode:

Another page:

A regular book (in this case, Peter Drucker's Management):

Expanded to the largest font size:

With a regular pen for scale:

A manga (Formera, an American comic in manga style):

I zoomed the camera in to look at the detail of the image. You can see the pixellation, but it looks quite good, in my opinion:

The web browser, with my Twitter homepage loaded:

Twitter in landscape mode:

The menu in landscape mode:

Various views of Wikipedia in landscape mode:

Side-by-side comparison of a Kindle 2 and a Kindle DX:

A PDF! With lots of text, charts, tables, and an image, no less:

A webpage with lots of formatting (this one, in fact):

Side-by-side comparison of a print book and a Kindle book (not the same book, though):

A less than lovely PDF; this one had scanning problems. Doesn't look great on my laptop, either.

A different PDF, this one scanned nicely. All crisp and clean.