Amazon's Kindle Fire is about to light up the competition

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So they just released their tablet. As expected it's pretty much a Blackberry Playbook (same company designed Amazon's) running 2.1 with their market and streaming music/video library.

The main interesting feature is their cloud browser which is basically like Opera Mini or what OnLive is doing, where part or all of the page loading is done on their end and then you get a compressed version. Should be pretty neat. No 3G version. Prices start at $199, Nov 15.

Might pick one up, probably won't use it, but I kind of want one anyways. My Touchpad is too awkward to shit with and use at the same time, maybe something a little smaller will do.

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[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-Multi-touch-Display-Wi-Fi/dp/B0051VVOB2"]Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi[/ame]

They also redid their Kindle line as seen in the picture. Basic model starts at $79 with the adsaver. Wish they would support .epubs instead of .mobi's.
 


actually, you can still get the old kindles with the keyboard.

Not really excited about the touchscreen ones, though.

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emp said:
Not really excited about the touchscreen ones, though.

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I'm with you there. I don't see how swiping a screen to change page is easier/better than pressing a single button? It's just a pointless gimmick for those that feel they need "modern" features.
 
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I'm with you there. I don't see how swiping a screen to change page is easier/better than pressing a single button? It's just a pointless gimmick for those that feel they need "modern" features.
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I've used both a Kindle with keyboard and buttons, and a Nook Touch with touchscreen and buttons.

On the Kindle, the keyboard was wasted space for me. The only time I used it was to register and input my wifi settings. After that, never used. The buttons were a little loud.

On the Nook, I use the touch screen (you don't have to swipe, just touch on one side or the other to advance/rewind pages) most of the time, and the buttons when I can't or don't want to switch hands. I prefer to use the touch screen because it's silent and takes a light touch; the buttons take a firm press.

Based on my experience with both of these devices, both used for several months each, I would get a touchscreen device over one with just buttons for page turning.

Also, it's kind of a pain in the balls, but Calibre will do conversions back and forth from epub/mobi easily.
 
Hey look it's a big smart phone that can't make phone calls or use 3g, running an outdated os

It's so awesome, we should post it on reddit!

Oh wait

Truth about tablets:
Apple made a big iPod touch and used their insane marketing prowess to convince their retarded fanbase to buy them -> competitors -> tablet craze. Tablets existed before this and ran full OSs, yet now we have these oversized smartphones which don't serve a practical niche. I'm waiting for Windows 8 and the Transformer 2 to jump into tablets.
 
kindle fire is the wrong direction for the kindle brand

limited battery life
useless in daylight (like any colour tab)
not too good for reading with (vs e-ink)

This is a backward step, imo.

I can see people "upgrading" their kindle 2/3 to this and being verrrrry disappointed. it is *not* an ebook reader.
 
A friend of mine has, and I must say it's horrible. I hate the fact that after 3 hours the battery is out. And in daylight I managed to read with a protection that I had to buy it separately.
 
BNR34 said:
kindle fire is the wrong direction for the kindle brand

limited battery life
useless in daylight (like any colour tab)
not too good for reading with (vs e-ink)

This is a backward step, imo.

I can see people "upgrading" their kindle 2/3 to this and being verrrrry disappointed. it is *not* an ebook reader.
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this.
 
It looks great to me, perfect for 'shitting with'. I definitely agree that it shouldn't really have the name Kindle, as its a different animal to the magic-ink kindle e-reader.
 
Not a single one of you seems to get it. At all.

It's their CONTENT, Stupid.

Kindle fire's Gonna WIPE THE FLOOR with iPad.

Plus, they're cheap enough to buy two or three and use as toilet paper when you're done watching movies on the john.

You peons need to think bigger. -And try Amazon Prime while you're at it; it's awesome! (And 1 month of prime comes free with this dual-core, speedy beast!)
 
lukep said:
Not a single one of you seems to get it. At all.
And try Amazon Prime while you're at it; it's awesome! (And 1 month of prime comes free with this dual-core, speedy beast!)
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Prime makes me feel like I live in Europe. 2-day shipping has forever spoiled me. Content selection is okay, slowly getting better.
 
I was very very close but then I realized that if I don't have access to the market place I only have access to the apps in amazons store... sure not a problem except things like Netflix and Dropbox are not there. Then I also found out it has no accelerometer, no cameras, no sd slot, no compas, and no microphone.

I am pretty sure this is why the Fire is still considered a Kindle and not a tablet. Its more on par with a nook color than any normal tablet. Its been made to be a reading device but also one that lets you play games not a tablet or ipad killer.
 
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