The online merchant’s new Fire is more powerful and less quirky than its predecessors — and its built-in tech support is a …
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With the New Kindle Fire HDX Tablets, Amazon Stays Ambitious and Goes Upscale
Jeff Bezos shows off better screens, slick TV tricks and built-in help from real people.
Amazon One-Day Deal: Refurbished 9-inch Kindle Fire HD Tablet for $179
Though these are refurbished models, Amazon says they are “certified to work and look like new” and carry the same one-year warranty as new models.
Amazon Discounts Kindle Fire HD Tablets for Father’s Day
Starting today through June 8, Amazon is cutting $20 from its line of Kindle Fire HD tablets when you use the promo code DADSFIRE.
State of the Tablet Market: 3 Takeaways
By now, it’s clear that anyone who thought tablets were a fad is dead wrong.
How Amazon Plans to Tackle a Lack of Tablet-Optimized Android Apps
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets have a lot to offer that vanilla Android tablets don’t–lower prices and a larger media selection, for example–but a huge selection of tablet-optimized apps isn’t one of them.
Still, Amazon has a …

Review: Kindle Fire HD Is a Very Amazon Tablet
From the moment Apple shipped the first iPad back in 2010, pundits started wondering when someone else would ship a tablet that rivaled it for overall appeal. The initial wondering, logically enough, focused on hardware …
Amazon’s New Kindle Fire Tablets: Interesting, but Not for Me
Usually when I follow liveblogs or read the coverage for a big tech product launch, some level of gadget lust takes over. I start to imagine myself using the product, and think about where it would fit into my existing lineup of …

Yes, You’ll Absolutely, Positively Be Able to Remove the Special Offers from Amazon’s New Kindle Tablets
When I show you products like that, with those hardware features, it creates an elephant in the room. This elephant goes by the name of How Are These Prices Possible?
That was Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at the company's Kindle
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My First 21 Questions About Amazon’s New Kindle Devices
Before Amazon.com held its Kindle event in Santa Monica, California on Thursday, the big questions involved what sort of products it would announce. Now we know: CEO Jeff Bezos single-handedly introduced and demoed a new e-reader …

Amazon’s Big Day: Kindles, Kindles and More Kindles?
FOLLOW-UP: Amazon Unveils New, Larger Kindle Fire Models
I’m in Santa Monica, California for Amazon.com’s press event, which kicks off at 1:30pm ET on Thursday. The company has officially said that–well, actually it hasn’t …
7-inch Tablet Wars: How Low Can Prices Go?
The low-end of the tablet market keeps getting more interesting, as device makers scramble to lure people in with cheap hardware.
The latest move comes from Barnes & Noble, which over the weekend slashed prices across its Nook …