Watch the Kindle 2 Take Apart Video!

Here's our latest stop-motion video: an unboxing and disassembly of a 2nd gen Amazon Kindle, compared along side an original Kindle (also being taken apart). Special thanks to Chet Mallory for his help and patience in taking these apart.

Here, you can clearly see the difference in display quality, design and size. The much touted 'ideal' asymmetrical shape of the original kindle has been ditched in favor of a iPod-stye case, complete with metal backplate. Likewise, the ergonomic thumb-keyboard has been replaced with a simple grid layout. Most importantly, the joystick-style '5-way' controller replaces the thumb wheel, facilitating the built-in dictionary's word lookup, as well as the clicking of hyperlinks in web content. The built-in speech feature is also very cool - almost as good as the latest Mac OS voices, as you can hear in the video. Check it out...