Now its Amazon’s turn to rock the tablet PC market. Yesterday, Amazon announced the launch of the Kindle Fire, a tablet computer version of company’s famous and successful Kindle e-book reader. The Kindle Fire will have a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and run on a forked version of Google’s operating system (OS) Android. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle’s e-books. It is scheduled to be released in mid-November 2011. The price of this device will be only US$199 (10,000 INR).
Amazon Kindle Fire Technical and other details ::
Developer :: Amazon
Manufacturer :: Quanta Computer
Generation :: 1st
Release date :: November 15, 2011
Introductory price :: $199 USD
Operating system :: Android 2.3
CPU :: TI OMAP 4 (dual core)
Storage capacity :: 8 GB
Memory :: 512 MB
Display 7" multi-touch gorilla glass display, 1024×600 at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Capacitive touch sensitive.
Connectivity :: Micro-USB 2.0 (type B)
3.5 mm TRRS
Dimensions :: 190 mm (7.5 in) H
120 mm (4.7 in) W
11.4 mm (0.45 in) D
Weight :: 413 g (14.6 oz)
Predecessor :: Kindle 2 and 3
Website http://amazon.com/gp/product/B0051VVOB2
You can buy Amazon Kindle Fire online from Apple’s official website.
I’m really excited by this, to be honest. It’s nice to see a company finally get truly competitive with the iPad.
Article has got all the info I was looking for… nice
Hi this is Ritika here. I just heard that the NXG electronics recently launched Xtab A10 which has 1.5 GHz processor,7″ 5point capacitive screen,
HDMI and USB port with Android 4.0.
Can someone please suggest whether buy this tab or not.