![]() That, plus this bit from the Bloomberg article:Ĭhief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is betting he can leverage Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce to pose a real challenge to Apple’s iPad, after tablets from rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. November 15 can’t come soon enough.Īs for competition, check out this side-by-side specs comparison of Amazon’s Fire, Apple’s iPad 2 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color, courtesy of The Verge. The Kindle Fire is available at Amazon’s newly published Fire page and over at /kindlefire. Heck, it even lacks 3G access so looks like the Fire will be a Wi-Fi affair only. Bad news: It has no cameras – not even a microphone. Meanwhile, our own Seth Weintraub is on the scene in New York at Amazon’s press conference and here’s what he was able to glean from Amazon’s announcement…Ī biggie: The device will come with a 60-day free trial of Amazon Prime (a $79 a year value) membership and pre-registered with your Amazon account, so you can literally use it right out of the box. You can read e-books on it, listen to music, watch movies and play games available for download through the Amazon Appstore for Android. The tablet is powered by a dual-core processor, has a seven-inch color display which responds to touch ( just two fingers at once, though) and a “fresh and easy user interface” running on a forked Android version. ![]() It will be called the Kindle Fire, as rumored, and will cost just $199, which is a pretty big deal. Just as Amazon’s media event begins in New York, serving as a launchpad for their inaugural tablet, Bloomberg spoils the announcement by publishing key pieces of information about the device.
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