Kindle Fire Tablet
The wraps are finally off Amazon’s Kindle Fire
tablet.
Its splashy entry into the tablet firestorm was hard to miss–Amazon made quite a press
release with its $199 price–and yet I’m underwhelmed.
Although reporters were not allowed to...
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Kindle Fire Tablet
The wraps are finally off Amazon’s Kindle Fire
tablet.
Its splashy entry into the tablet firestorm was hard to miss–Amazon made quite a press
release with its $199 price–and yet I’m underwhelmed.
Although reporters were not allowed to the
touch the Kindle Fire during the demonstrations following Amazon’s New York launch event, I
spent considerable time observing the tablet in action, and grilling Amazon executives about
different features.
My gut reaction to what I saw today: This isn’t the Amazon tablet we’ve all been
looking for.
The rumor mill was rife with talk of an Amazon Android tablet for months.
And no wonder:
Amazon is the only real company whose shopping services could create an integrated tablet
experience that offers Apple a run because of its money.
What Amazon announced today when
using the Fire is a smaller amount of a ready-to-use tablet and mare like a targeted companion for
Amazon’s content and cloud services.
The Kindle Fire is
proscribed i
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