The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 12th generation has just launched in India. This is the first time a more premium e-reader has launched in that country; the Kindle Basic 11th Generation has been available for some time. The Paperwhite retails for ₹16,999, with a special promotion. The regular price is ₹21,999. This model is more expensive, but I am sure some people will buy it since it is sold and fulfilled by Amazon.
The Kindle Paperwhite 12th generation features a 7-inch E INK Carta 1300 e-paper display with a resolution of 1264×1680 with 300 PPI. The new e-paper display uses an oxide thin-film transistor that gives it the highest contrast ratio of any Kindle, so text and images pop on the screen. The device is 25% faster when scrolling through a library or zooming through pages. If you like to read at night, the front-light system has undergone a revision and now has 10 White LEDs and 9 Amber LEDs.
The Kindle Paperwhite runs a Mediatek dual-core 1GHz processor; the previous Paperwhite only had a single-core processor. Peter and I noticed that this is the fastest Kindle that Amazon has ever made. It has 512MB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. The Signature Edition has 32GB of storage. For those who like to read in the bathtub, it is rated IPX8 so that it can be submerged in freshwater for up to 60 minutes. If you have it in salt water, washing it underneath fresh water, such as a tap is important. It has Bluetooth 5.1 for listening to Audible audiobooks via wireless headphones or earbuds.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.