Jeff Bezos Says a New Kindle is Coming

My one and only April Fools joke last week involved a new Kindle launching this month, and now it appears my joke may be closer to the target than you might have expected.

Jeff Bezos tweeted the following about an hour ago:

While we don’t have any specific details on the next Kindle, I have heard that it will have Wifi, BT, and 3G. I can also add that you’ll find this in the product description:

Product supplied with cover in leather. The cover has internal battery recharged via the tablet itself.

That’s all we know until Amazon either drops the embargo or leaks more info.

I for one am hoping that it has a Liquavista screen, and Twitter users have responded to Bezos’ tweet and asked for their most-wished for features. “Please let it have proper clicking page-turn buttons! Touch screens and sensors are terrible replacements,” one writes.

Another one wished Amazon would release an upscale white Kindle: “Future wish: white bezels, allowing text to go up to the edge of the display, while still looking good,” while a third asked for the return of Text to Speech: “Have text-to-speech or go away forever. The Keyboard is the ONLY good Kindle.”

Both a Liquavista screen and text-to-speech would fit with Bezos’s calling the next Kindle “top of the line”, but of course this is purw speculation at this point.

What would you like to see in the new Kindle?