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In NewsAmazon Kindle Fire price and specs revealed: 7-inch IPS display, dual-core processor, $199
Posted by: Vlad Savov on September 28, 2011 9:40 am |
The $199 Amazon Kindle Fire has gotten its announcement a little early, and not from Amazon at all. Bloomberg, citing Amazon executives, reports that the Kindle Fire is a 7-inch tablet running Android and functioning as a “souped-up version of the Kindle.” To reach that keen price, Amazon has eschewed the integration of a camera, microphone or 3G, though the Fire will come with WiFi and a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. Prime membership typically costs $79 per year and grants the benefits of free two-day shipping and access to Amazon’s video-streaming service.
Jeff Bezos has confirmed all of the foregoing at Amazon’s launch event and has added some more specs: the Kindle Fire has a Gorilla Glass-protected, multitouch-capable IPS display, a TI OMAP4 dual-core processor, and at 14.6 ounces (413g), a pretty lightweight frame. The resolution on that screen is 1024 x 600, same as on RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook, and the Kindle Fire’s physical dimensions are 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.45 inches (190 x 120 x 11.5mm). There’s 8GB of built-in storage and the battery’s rated to last for eight hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback (with WiFi switched off). A 3.5mm headphone jack is naturally included as is a pair of top-mounted stereo speakers.
On the software front, we’re told that Amazon has “painted over the rough surfaces” of Android with its own, more accessible user interface and has closely tied the device with its content library. That includes the Amazon App Store, which has grown to number over 10,000 applications, and what’s described as a “lightning-fast web browser” running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing engine. Calling it Silk, Bezos explains that it splits the workload between the Kindle Fire and Amazon’s cloud, doing some backend hocus pocus to streamline what gets to your device. All other media and content on the Kindle Fire will also be backed up to the cloud, so you can delete things without a care. One final note of software import: the Fire supports Flash!
See video and more pictures of Amazon’s new tablet after the break. The Kindle Fire will ship in the US (and only in the US, there are no plans for an international launch yet) on November 15th for $199 and pre-orders are now being taken at the link below.
Finally an Android Tablet that I'm excited about.
This dunk was ridiculous!!
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I didn't purchase the fake Tweetbot but I'm sure a lot of people did. This isn't just a case of a coincidental app of the same name. This is a blatant attempt to scam customers who are looking for the official Tweetbot app from Tapbots. How did this even get approved? I thought Apple was supposed to have stringent quality control. The worst part is that this happens all the time. Do a search for a popular game/app and most of the time there'll be some imposter app with a similar name and a 1-Star rating because it was an obvious rip-off. Apple needs to crackdown on these apps or have a better refund policy.
Until then, please read the app descriptions and reviews before buying.
BTW... Tweetbot is pretty sweet :)
