Amazon Expands Kindle Line and adds Fire
September 28, 2011
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announced four new devices today. One of these was the much rumored Fire a 7 inch tablet.
Unveiled was the Kindle Touch ($99), an updated non-touch Kindle ($79), a new Kindle 3G ($149). And the product that many expected the Amazon Fire ($199).
The Fire ships Nov. 15, but it will probably be best if you want one to put your pre-order in as soon as possible.
The Fire is a 7-inch dual-core Wi-Fi tablet although it doesn’t have a camera or 3G. The specs says it will come with 6GB of internal storage.
The Fire also features Amazon Silk, a new browser that can render pages either locally on the device or on Amazon’s cloud, which Bezos says will lead to faster performance.
Perhaps most importantly, however, the Kindle Fire features deep integration with all of Amazon’s content services (apps, movies, music, cloud storage, eBookes, magazines, billing system).
“The question is: Why is Kindle working? Why is this working? I believe it’s because Kindle is an end-to-end service,” Bezos said, according to a live blog of today’s event posted on Engadget.com. “And I believe it is because we have been inventing and improving that service at a rapid pace for the last four years.”
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