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Amazon has bestowed the Kindle namesake onto a basic and inexpensive, yet powerful e-reader. The Kindle no longer has a keyboard, but it includes the 5-way toggle button that has been present on all previous generation Kindles. A common description among reviewers is “minimalist”, but it serves its intended audience well.

The Kindle includes wi-fi only, but comes with the option to have special offers or not. Without special offers, this version goes for $109. It includes 2GB of space, which means it can hold around 1500 books. That is about half the amount of the Kindle Touch and the Kindle Keyboard, however, there is always Amazon storage backup.

With the basic Kindle priced lower than any of the competing e-readers such as the Nook or Kobo, it will be a great gift for readers of all ages. More customers are being drawn to the Kindle than ever before, and this version is an excellent introductory e-reader. Many of the games already out have been developed for compatibility with the Kindle 4. It wouldn’t be surprising to see a huge Kindle game sale happen.

For all Amazon Black Friday deals, make sure to bookmark the official Black Friday Deals page. Right now, there are discounts on various Amazon products. Lightning deals are year round, and so are daily deals. Amazon has been known to include Kindle deals through these outlets, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to key a close eye on them.

In addition to the Kindle 4, Amazon offers the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire. They are in direct competition with the Nook and Kobo equivalents. The Kindle 3, now known as the Kindle Keyboard is still a big part of the Kindle Family, and appeals to those who prefer a physical keyboard.

The Android Marketplace has been getting a lot of useful eCommerce apps lately and the latest amongst them is from the auction site eBay. While it is technically totally possible to sell your stuff and buy someone else’s stuff on eBay through your Android phone’s browser, having a dedicated app to do your work for you is always a better way to do it.

This dedicated app puts all your stats and information in an easy to use format. You can check the statuses of your auctions, bids and you can also leave feedback for your transactions on the popular auctions site. The best feature is of course notifications, where you can be notified about when an auction is about to end. This app has just about everything that you could expect from such an offering and it does not disappoint.

Some estimates put the Android adoption rate at something of 60,000 units moving per day. That’s a lot of phones to reckon with and you can bet that a lot of them are eBay users. Most of them are average users and only some of them are power users or professional sellers on eBay. The great thing about this app is that it does not look like something that would intimidate the average user but it will also appeal to the power user who needs things done even when away from his main screeen.

The full reaction to this app has not become apparent yet, mainly because it is still too new to tell. But from what it is and it does, it should appeal to a wide demographic of Android phone owners, the number of whom is getting bigger and bigger with every passing day. This is something eBay could not ignore doing.

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