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Amazon Kindle Touch (2011)

Amazon Kindle Touch (2011)
80 TECHNADO SCORE
CATEGORY: F4
AVERAGE: 80%
%POSITIVE: 80%

Consensus
The Kindle Touch is possibly the best e-reader to date, but may struggle to against the new hot budget tablets like the Fire and Nook that offer much more than e-readers do.
Critic Reviews






90%
Far from hanging on for dear life, text e-readers are undergoing a renaissance. There’s still plenty to improve, like the price (The $80 non-touch Kindle is almost, though not quite, cheap enough to make e-readers a basic, birth-right necessity). But there’s enough here for e-readers to demand a seat at the table in a world dominated by smartphones and tablets....Go To Full Review

83%
The Kindle Touch is Amazon's best e-reader to date....Go To Full Review

80%
Amazon's Kindle Touch is a very capable touch-screen ebook reader, but when it comes to price, the Wi-Fi-only version makes the most sense. The 3G option puts it too close to the more-versatile Kindle Fire tablet....Go To Full Review

78%
Overall, I really like the Kindle Touch. Hardware-wise, I found the Nook Touch more responsive and more comfortable to hold, and software-wise I found the Nook Touch more intuitive and mature (outside of the Kindle's amazing new "X-Ray"). But if I needed a touchscreen E Ink reader right this second, I'd get the Kindle in a heartbeat ...Go To Full Review

70%
Though the Kindle Touch brings Amazon up to speed with other e-readers, its hardware and software offer little in the way of imagination and useful innovation....Go To Full Review