{"id":521613,"date":"2026-04-09T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:07:08","slug":"user-anger-as-amazon-ends-support-for-some-older-kindles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521613\/","title":{"rendered":"User anger as Amazon ends support for some older Kindles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tech industry analyst Paolo Pescatore said while Amazon&#8217;s move may frustrate owners of models which still work, the decision was &#8220;understandable from a security and support perspective&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The challenge is that these devices were built for a different era and are not equipped to run newer, more data-hungry services and features,&#8221; he told the BBC, adding &#8220;ageing hardware&#8221; can also pose problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Pescatore said older devices losing the ability to connect to newer products and services can also &#8220;turn a once seamless device into a far more limited offline tool&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ugo Vallauri, co-director of the Restart Project, which encourages repair of electronics, said manufacturers&#8217; promises of newer devices offering better performance, when ceasing support for older products, has been seen before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;However, that&#8217;s hardly a good reason for soft-bricking millions of still functioning devices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vallauri added while the company has said the change would only affect 3% of current users, &#8220;this could amount to 2 million devices rendered obsolete according to some estimates, potentially generating over 624 tons of e-waste&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Additional reporting by James Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech industry analyst Paolo Pescatore said while Amazon&#8217;s move may frustrate owners of models which still work, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}