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Here is a new Amazon tablet: $ 199

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After months of conjecture, it is here: Amazon’s tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, was unveiled Wednesday.

Smaller sized and cheaper than Apple’s major iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 7-inch screen and runs on a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating-system. The tablet offers Wi-Fi connectivity, but no 3G or other cellular connection. It also lacks a camera and microphone, two features found in most rival tablets.

The Kindle Fire has a 7-inch IPS display with 1024-pixel by 600-pixel resolution, plus a dual-core processor, 8GB of storage and 7.5 hours of video playback. The Fire has a USB port for file transfers, but no cameras and no microphone. The tablet measures 7.5-by-4.7-by-0.45 inches, and weighs 14.6 ounces.

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But this tablet is not supposed to be about tech features. It’s intended to be a dead-simple slate for consuming Amazon content. The interface has a search bar on top, which could search locally, in the cloud, and on the Web. Below that is a strip of content categories, followed by a stylized list of recent content. On the bottom of the screen, users can pin their favorite apps, books, and other media.

Amazon’s digital storefronts include e-books, movies, Television shows, music, and applications. Several magazine publishers are also bringing their periodicals to the tablet. Although the Kindle Fire doesn’t offer much internal storage, any content purchased from Amazon may be stored online in cloud storage for free. There’s no mention of Google services, so don’t expect Google Maps or the Android Market to be built in.

For browsing the Web, the Kindle Fire utilizes a new browser called “Amazon Silk,” which taps Amazon’s cloud computing services to render pages faster. An e-mail app is also built-in, with support for multiple mail services in a single inbox.

Amazon says the Silk browser resides both on the Fire and on its own servers. For each page request, Silk divvies up the work between the tablet and the cloud. The result, according to Amazon, is faster page loads and lower latency.

The Kindle Fire costs $199, including a free month of Amazon Prime, and ships November 15. Amazon’s taking pre-orders on its Website.

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New Kindle E-Readers

Amazon isn’t abandoning its E-Ink readers with present day tablet announcement. Amazon also announced new Kindles along with the Kindle Fire tablet.

The Kindle Touch uses the same infrared touch system found in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and Sony’s touch screen e-readers. Amazon is touting what it calls the “EasyReach” system with this Kindle, which lets users tap a short horizontal strip along the top of the screen to call up the menu, a narrow vertical strip along the left side to go back one page, and the rest of the screen to go to the next page.

The Kindle Touch costs $99 with Special Offers–a service that displays ads and deals on the device’s home page–and $139 without them. A 3G model will cost $149. Amazon’s taking pre-orders now, ahead of a November 21 ship date.

In addition to the touchscreen Kindle, Amazon will launch a non-touch Kindle with Special Offers for $79. This model drops the physical keyboard of previous Kindles in favor of a small set of buttons on the bottom bezel, along with the usual left and right bezel buttons for page turns. Amazon says this model is 30 percent lighter than previous Kindles. Without Special deals, this Kindle costs $109. Both editions ship today.

Amazon Android Appstore released in India along with 1 lakh applications

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Amazon Android Appstore continues to be released in India with 1 lakh applications to choose from. The amount of Android applications is rising steadily

Indian android cell phone users must be very happy with this information. Amazon is introducing Android applications stores for the Indian users who for long have been feeling like left behind.

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The amount of Android cell phone and tablet users is growing rapidly. Samsung too is betting big on India and recently boasted that it is market leader in the Indian market in cell phone and tablet market. This is not wrong.

Android applications have soared to closed a hundred thousand applications and these applications make smart phones and tablets a lot more attractive than without them.

Earlier Amazon Appstore was accessible to people in United States. The website indicated that only the users in the united states can buy the applications from Amazon Appstore and people elsewhere couldn’t use it.

If you want to visit the store you can login to http://www.amazon.com/app-email and can order an application. The store was launched merely six months ago and has become a huge hit for Android lovers across the world.

Amazon is trying to become formidable rival to Apple. It is also launching a tablet for as little as $250. A 7 inch tablet pc it will come with all the wonderful features that are associated with top tablets already available for sale.

A minumum of one Android tablet to be sold by Amazon in October

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The Wall Street Journal has revealed new bits of information on the rumour that Amazon could be releasing an Android tablet, using the paper predicting 2 tablets will be launched in October.

The rumour that Amazon is developing Android tablets to assist extend the success they’ve seen with the Kindle reader continues to be circulating for some months now, although new details are now starting to read the news.

The Wall Street Journal states that they have verification that the release of a tactile tablet will require place in October, together with two new models to be added to the Kindle family – one of these will be tactile. As predicted, the tablets offering multimedia options will likely be used by the book retailer as an entry point to their content rent and getting services.
Once more, its Apple and their iPad tablet (using their range of content provided by the iTunes Store) which is directly targeted. After dedicated devices like the Kindle, Amazon wants to get their own mobile/roaming product range to assist in the distribution of their content.

Amazon tablet

The Wall Street Journal verifies that the Amazon tablet includes a 9″ display and Android, but won’t have an on-board camera lens. Its conception and assembly are now being done in Asia.

Tablets and Kindle’s

Simultaneously, Amazon is also working on another tablet, with the conception of this gadget being done internally with it likely to be released later in the year (would this be the 7″ model that has recently been rumoured?). No details about the on-board processor has been released, and while a lot expect an Nvidia Tegra family processor to be used, Texas Instruments with their OMAP4 processors could create a surprise.

The commercial strategy is yet to be completed, with the problem being to try to not cannibalise the Kindle market by pushing Amazon service users to buy the new product.

The American group should also launch new Kindle models the third quarter, with one of these to have a tactile display. As for the tablets strategy, market observers believe that the American group is one of the best placed to compete with Apple as their already have their own content which can be offered as a less onerous alternative to the iPad – the product that continues to set the pricing pace in the sector.
However, its weakness is its lack of stores compared to the rest of the tablet market, which could result in this first launch tablet finding itself trapped behind Apple who has already released their second generation device.

Amazon tablet PC release date called for October?

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amazon tabletsBalance rumoured Amazon tablet would be to make an appearance this year, with the iPad rival apparently set to make an appearance this October.

It’s easy to understand why Amazon has an eye on the tablet market. Its ereader, the Amazon Kindle would be a runaway success and is still the main product bought on its store.

This type of enterprize model seems to work and it is most likely that Amazon will not change it for the launch of tablet – meaning it will probably get a United states release first, with the UK sell to follow.

For any tablet to work properly, it needs an eco-system and Amazon has this using the Amazon Appstore and its close links with LoveFilm.

With all the applications on the Appstore presently based on Android, it makes sense that it would use the Android Honeycomb OS and offer a direct link to its own Appstore (which seems to be getting a number of exclusive apps) and the original Android Market.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Amazon tablet will have a 9-inch screen and the first model will be outsourced, while a second model will be designed in-house and released later in 2012.

A number of new updates may also be coming to the Kindle, based on the WSJ, including touchscreen controls.

The WSJ is keeping its sources near to its heart on this, but as rumours go an Amazon tablet is a rather safe bet.

Amazon tablet PC release date called for October?

Amazon Tablet Codenamed Hollywood: No cost Movie Streaming

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Way back in May we told readers about rumors concerning Amazon joining the tablet market there was speculation that 2 tablets, the Hollywood and the Coyote, may be available towards the end of the year. These days we now have further news on the Amazon tablet codenamed Hollywood as it seems it may feature free movie streaming.

Information about the rumored Amazon Kindle tablets is very scarce right now but this intriguing snippet of information has come in the consumer research department at Detwiler Fenton who suggest the Hollywood could have Amazon’s movie streaming on release. It’s also thought that the service on this full color tablet will be free, for at least the first few months.
Additional information about the Hollywood to date hints at a quad-core cpu running on the Android Honeycomb OS, based on Rik Henderson over on Pocket-Lint, sourced from BGR and Barrons. Other plus points include Amazon AppStore access as well as Amazon’s Cloud Locker music service. There’s also a report on this speculation over on The Next Web, which talks much more about the 10-inch Hollywood tablet and says that Amazon has already placed orders with Quanta Computer in Taiwan to manufacturer it, so click the link for more on that.
Will you be interested in the Amazon Hollywood tablet and do you consider Amazon could ever rival the Apple iPad in the tablet market? Tell us with your comments

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Turns up On Amazon And 4G Version On Verizon

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 has become on Amazon. You can’t pre-order yet, however, you can sign up to get notified when it’s available. Based on Samsung’s previous announcement, the Wifi version of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be available on June 8th.

If the Wifi version isn’t enough for you, the 4G LTE-enabled version will also be available soon and is presently listed on Verizon, and the business will start taking pre-order starting from June 8th. The delivery date of the 4G edition will be “this summer”, and it will cost $530 for the 16GB model and $630 for the 32GB model, with 2 year contract.