Kindle runs a heavily customized Linux operating system, and has a simple user interface keyed into the unit's unusual controls. Here's a tour of what you can expect to see. Also check out our Hands-On gallery of the thing itself.
Kindle's main menu adapts to the context, and is summoned by hitting the unit's clickwheel.
Kindle's online store is, of course, top o' the list...
Amazon's already queued up tons of content to buy, including a few daily newspapers.
The "buy now" page operates much like the website: you can even write user reviews from it.
Jeff Bezos suggests that you start buying stuff first, and figure it all out later.
The "experimental" menu has some cool perks, including a limited but usable web browser and an MP3 player.
The web browser has some useful pre-cut links.
Wikipedia is a good place to learn the unique control system, which involves "zooming" to a section of the page, links from which then appear as a list in a selection dialog box.
Searching is easy enough...
Many sites required the browser's "advanced mode" to be turned on. Wired.com's CSS-heavy top part renders O.K., but the blog section looks great.
Wired blogs also look very good. Amazon's browser is good enough to suggest that it could be easy for bloggers to circumvent the Kindle's RSS and blog-viewing fees with some clever scripting.
When viewing text, there are six levels of zoom. This is the zoomiest.
The MP3 player is in stereo. Sound quality was just fine.
