Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire’s app muscle ahead of next week’s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot.
Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more …
If it’s a cheap tablet you’re after, Barnes & Noble and Amazon want your business. Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s $249 Nook Tablet both look promising on paper—the former with its suite of Amazon services, and …
Amazon’s Kindle Fire may be a bigger deal than many were expecting, if J.P. Morgan’s about-turn on the device is anything to go by. Weeks after telling investors that the device was “noise” with a low price point that only reflected how much it lacked in terms of usability, the company is forecasting Kindle Fire sales of between 4.5 to 5 …
It’s still more than a month away from release, but the Amazon Kindle Fire is already drawing the wrong kind of attention from a company called Smartphone Technologies. Namely, the kind of attention that involves touchscreens and a patent infringement lawsuit.
Smartphone Technologies has made a name for itself by suing Apple, Research …
Ben Bajarin is the Director of Consumer Technology Analysis and Research at Creative Strategies, Inc, a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm located in Silicon Valley.
As is to be expected, many in the media are commenting on the extremely aggressive pricing of the Kindle Fire as the most disruptive element of the …
Amazon came out firing at its press event yesterday with the Kindle Fire tablet and two new Kindle e-readers. Although there weren’t a lot of surprises in terms of tech specs—we’ve heard rumors of the Amazon tablet and a new Kindle before—Amazon did manage to keep images of its new products under wraps until now.
Let’s take a …
On Wednesday, Amazon will almost certainly announce its highly-hyped Kindle tablet. And like so many other big tech rumors, the details are dripping out ahead of time.
Here’s what we already know (or think we know) about Amazon’s Kindle tablet:
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