Amazon: Kindle for BlackBerry App “Coming Soon”

The day is not very far when users of BlackBerry smartphones can get access to their Kindle digital-book library. The news of a free Kindle for BlackBerry mobile application had been doing the rounds since a few months. However, the date as to when the application will be available for download is still not available. Presently, the Kindle page shows a BlackBerry icon on top of the words “coming soon”. Till then we can only wait anxiously for the day when the users of BlackBerry smartphones will get access to a whole range of Kindle and many other books.

At present, Apple’s iPhone is the sole major smartphone with an official Kindle mobile application. The BlackBerry smartphones will soon join the league to become the second platform to get a Kindle application. There is some more news in this regards on Amazon.com page. Apart from the application for BlackBerry, it is also known that a new Kindle software for Macintosh computers will also be released. These applications will surely enrich one’s reach of quality books.

However, there’s something more to it. This is not going to be the first electronic reader for the BlackBerry platform. Prior to the Kindle for BlackBerry, eReader and Mobipocket are two applications that are quite popular and allow access to digital libraries. But in terms of use, Amazon’s Kindle far exceeds both of them. Moreover, eReader and Mobipocket doesn’t allow users to read Kindle books. They need to be purchased from the applications’ respective online stores.

The phone’s display screen size also plays a role in the reading experience. The iPhone has a screen which is just enough for reading. Reading lengthy novels on the iPhone can be tiresome and dreary. So it is going to be attention-grabbing to find out how Amazon translates the Kindle experience to the comparatively smaller screen sizes of the BlackBerry phones. The RIM devices like the BlackBerry Storm and Storm2 will most likely be the ideal devices for this application owing to their large screen sizes and the touch-screen navigation feature. With the other BlackBerry phones with smaller displays, the experience can be frustrating and trying, the outcome remains to be seen.

Kindle for an iPhone user does not allow access to Kindle content besides novels like magazine subscriptions and blogs. It can be expected that it will be the same for BlackBerry users as well.