Amazon Kindle Fire is the highly anticipated 7-inch color Kindle tablet from Amazon. It weighs only 14.6 ounces (413 grams), and it’s 0.45 inches thick and it will have all the services Amazon has to offer.
Amazon Kindle Fire
Amazon feature and description:
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Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon’s revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser
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- 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books
- Amazon Appstore – thousands of popular apps and games
- Ultra-fast web browsing – Amazon Silk
- Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content
- Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle
- Fast, powerful dual-core processor
- Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows
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Although The Kindle Fire will probably be one of the best sellers of the Kindle family, it comes with some limitations; for example, it only comes with 8gb of memory. After downloading a few eBooks and/or audio books, you’ll find yourself wishing you had more space for movies to watch on the road. Let’s not even mention upload your music.
Kindle Fire TV Commercial—Amazon’s New Kindle Ad
Price
At a price tag of $199 for an Android based tablet, most people would not care about the memory issue. The Kindle is visually beautiful, with a custom browser that will work well with all the Amazon services.
Technical Details
| Display |
7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors. |
| Size (in inches) |
7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm). |
| Weight |
14.6 ounces (413 grams). |
| System Requirements |
None, because it’s wireless and doesn’t require a computer. |
| On-device Storage |
8GB internal. That’s enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. |
| Cloud Storage |
Free cloud storage for all Amazon content |
| Battery Life |
Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content. |
| Charge Time |
Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB. |
| Wi-Fi Connectivity |
Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or 802.1X standard with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks. |
| USB Port |
USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) |
| Audio |
3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers. |
| Content Formats Supported |
Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8. |
| Documentation |
Quick Start Guide(included in box); Kindle User’s Guide (pre-installed on device) |
| Warranty and Service |
1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the terms found here. |
| Included in the Box |
Kindle Fire device, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start Guide. |
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Follow this to Pre-order your Kindle Fire, Full Color 7″ Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi
Kindle Fire will be released on November 15, 2011. Orders are prioritized on a first come, first served basis.
On Saturday, I had the pleasure to test drive the HP Touchpad and I was blown away. I have been on the market for a tablet for a while and very hesitant about spending $500 to $600 for something that did not have all the features that would satisfy me.
Ever since HP purchased the Palm last year in 2010, I knew it was a matter of time before they’d put out something great running WebOS. The HP tablet has a brilliant 9.7-inch, 1,024-by-768-pixel touch-screen LCD which I think is great for watching movies or even photos. This tablet is fast, really fast, between browsing this site and watching a video there was absolutely no lag. According to HP’s ads they have about a thousand Apps for the tablet, which I’ve not seen yet.
The HP tablet comes in 16 or 32GB of internal storage for $499 and $599. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core APQ8060 1.2GHz processor. There’s also a Bluetooth keyboard, a case, a charging dock
buy the HP Touchpad Wi-Fi 16gb
buy the HP Touchpad Wi-Fi 32gb
