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Ravynmagi  Title: Moderator
Posts: 1,098
Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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Date Posted:
9/28/11 8:52am
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Amazon announced three new Kindles today. First two are e-inks displays and the last an IPS LCD.
Kindle Touch
* IR touch screen
* no keyboard/buttons
* "most advanced" e-ink display
* $139 ($99 w/ads) wifi or $189 ($149 w/ads) with 3G (3G access still free)
* ships November 21st, pre-orders start today
Kindle
* button navigation, but no keyboard (no touch screen)
* 18% smaller than Kindle 3
* $109 ($79 w/ads)
* ships today
Kindle Fire
* 7 inch 1024x600 IPS display with Gorilla Glass
* Dual core TI OMAP4 processor
* 512MB memory
* 8GB internal storage
* 14.6 oz (414 grams or 0.9 pounds)
* Amazon Silk web browser. "Dynamic split browsing" intelligently renders pieces of a website locally and other pieces via the cloud to boost browsing performance.
* $199
* ships November 15th, pre-orders start today
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/live-from-amazons-tablet-event-in-nyc/
edit: updated some specs on the Fire
edit 2: updated prices with and without advertising |
Lonestar_1  Posts: 259
Registered: 2004-8-26 08:40:28
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Date Posted:
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
I was reading that the kindle fire really based alot off of the playbook. Not a fast CPU either.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Lonestar_1 posted:
I was reading that the kindle fire really based alot off of the playbook. Not a fast CPU either.
The same company that designed and manufactures the Playbook also is making the Kindle Fire. It's a shortcut Amazon apparently had to take to get it out this holiday season.
Processor is believed to be a TI OMAP4 dual core, this is actually very impressive for a $200 tablet.
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Ookane  Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-10-15 12:42:14
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Date Posted:
9/28/11 8:52am
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Blown away. Go watch the Youtube video on the development and setup behind their Silk browser on the Fire. Perfectly what is needed - offload EVERYTHING you can to the cloud, let the server farm do as much as possible, and only use the network to push data back and forth to be presented in the browser - much like how remote desktop works.
Love the new Touch versions, I have a 3gen one I got last Xmas, and these are smaller, nicer, and cheaper. Bezos' letter on the Amazon front page says it all:
"There are two types of companies: those that work hard to charge customers more, and those that work hard to charge customers less. Both approaches can work. We are firmly in the second camp."
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Terminius_Est  Title: Moon River
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Date Posted:
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Does it force you to go to their store for everything?
What if I wanted to read a book in e-pub format?
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Keypek Posts: 47
Registered: 2006-9-12 08:45:41
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Date Posted:
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
I don't like that they started doing this advertisement spam on the homescreen and screensavers junk but I guess if it NEVER intrudes during actual reading and reduces them by $40 like it seems to than I'll deal with it I guess.
Think I'll get the $99 touch one. Could care less about having all the other crap. Just need something to read books on hehe.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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Date Posted:
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Terminius_Est posted:
Does it force you to go to their store for everything?
What if I wanted to read a book in e-pub format?
Kindle supports sideloading other epub files pretty easily. I'm guessing that isn't changing.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Keypek posted:
I don't like that they started doing this advertisement spam on the homescreen and screensavers junk but I guess if it NEVER intrudes during actual reading and reduces them by $40 like it seems to than I'll deal with it I guess.
Think I'll get the $99 touch one. Could care less about having all the other crap. Just need something to read books on hehe.
Thanks. They didn't even mention those prices were the ones with the ads in it during the live blog. Ugh, guess it did seem too good, should have known. Now I'm wondering if the Kindle Fire has any adware in it for it's $200 price tag.
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Jyiiga Title: The MMO Snob
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Registered: 2001-3-15 22:36:09
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Date Posted:
9/28/11 8:52am
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Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Makes me wonder if I should cancel my HP TouchPad orders. They are still sitting in limbo and this seems like a nice little device.
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heiromancerdrackus Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
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Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
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Date Posted:
9/28/11 8:52am
Subject:
Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and Kindle |
Ravynmagi posted:
Keypek posted:
I don't like that they started doing this advertisement spam on the homescreen and screensavers junk but I guess if it NEVER intrudes during actual reading and reduces them by $40 like it seems to than I'll deal with it I guess.
Think I'll get the $99 touch one. Could care less about having all the other crap. Just need something to read books on hehe.
Thanks. They didn't even mention those prices were the ones with the ads in it during the live blog. Ugh, guess it did seem too good, should have known. Now I'm wondering if the Kindle Fire has any adware in it for it's $200 price tag.
There are no alternate SKUs for 'ad supported' Fire tablets, so I'd say no.
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