With the extreme success of Amazon's popular e-reader, which accounts for 59% of all e-readers that are shipped, it is no surprise the company have decided to build on that platform and design a tablet PC. The Kindle Fire is essentially a tweaked and tuned version of its ancestor the Kindle, that provides extra services and potential.
The Kindle Fire includes a 7" colour touch screen display that uses in-plane switching to achieve a wider reading angle (much like what we have seen on the iPad). The tablet will run a modified version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and it is still unclear whether this will be updated to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at some point. Also included is 8GB of internal storage + free Amazon cloud storage, a dual-core processor, WiFi connectivity, a 3.5mm audio jack, and approximeately 8 hours of reading battery life (7.5 hours video playback). On top of this, Kindle Fire users will have access to 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, e-magazines and e-books, fast internet-access, plus a wide variety of apps available on the Android Appstore. If you are a Amazon Prime member you will also gain access to unlimited, immediate streaming of thousands of movies/tv shows.
The tablet is on sale in the US already at a very reasonable price of $199.00 (£124.37), and will be released on the 15th November. It is unclear when the Kindle Fire will be due for release in the UK yet. Reasons for the cheap price presumably include the fact no camera is included, no 3G is available and neither will GPS be a possibility. One thing I personally think could distract potential buyers, is that it steers away from the E-Ink electronic paper display, which makes reading on the Kindle so easy. However still at this brilliant price, it certainly looks like a good budget-tablet
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