The Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon Kindle Fire

The Amazon Kindle Fire | The Kindle has been around for quite some time now with the standard version, Kindle Touch and Kindle 3G being absolute favorites among consumers. The kindle makes it possible to order and read magazines and books from the comfort of your own home 24/7 365 days a year. The kindle has become so popular that it has even been given credit for the revival of the eBook, which was beginning to flounder and become a nonstarter.

As great as the Amazon Kindle is there have always been a couple of things missing. One of those things is color and the second is the ability to cruise the Internet. Well all that is about to change with the introduction of the Amazon Kindle Fire on November 15 2011. The Amazon Kindle Fire is the first Kindle to enter the world as a PC tablet giving you a lot of features that you would expect to find in a much higher priced unit. Yes the Amazon Kindle Fire is aimed at grabbing some of the market share from the Apple iPad and it may just be able to accomplish that feat especially at a sub $200 price.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is not a 3G capable unit by itself, but it does come with WiFi and when you pair this with a cell phone that is WiFi hotspot capable and has a proper data plan, you’ll be able to use it anywhere that has a cell signal to purchase books, cruise the net, check e-mail or any number of other things that you do from your Home Computer.

So let’s jump into the Amazon Kindle Fire specifics a little more deeply so that you can get some idea of just what Amazon is offering up this time. Make no mistake that this little unit is geared at making the massive content available on Amazon directly available at a moment’s notice.

Amazon Kindle Fire Specifics.

The Amazon Kindle Fire is a device that has the android operating system at its core, albeit a heavily customized version.

The computing power for the Amazon Kindle Fire is provided by a Dual Core 1GHz TI OMAP 4430 (2 x Cortex A9) processor with 8 GB of on-board storage provided.

The WiFi capabilities of the Amazon Kindle Fire include 802.11n, which means that its WiFi reception and speed will be greatly increased.

The screen is a 7 inch multi-touch display which includes IPS (in-plain switching) and an anti-reflective treatment. The screen also boasts a respectable 1024 by 600 pixel resolution and color rendition of 16,000,000 colors. The screen is also constructed of gorilla glass making it 30 times harder than plastic for increased durability.

Although the Amazon Kindle Fire only offers 8 GB of on-board storage Amazon is giving away 5 GB of free cloud storage on their network making anything you store their available anywhere you can get a WiFi connection.

Full access to Amazon’s Android market apps and one of the largest content networks on the planet containing 18,000,000 movies, TV shows, magazines, books and songs.

You’re internet browsing will be accomplished using the Amazon Silk browser. This revolutionary new browser supports Amazon Web Services (The cloud), Adobe Flash and pre-pushes content to your device based on the results of thousands of searches previously conducted on Amazon Web Services.

The Amazon Kindle Fire has a compact size of 7.5” x 4.7” x 0.45” making it easy to hold in one hand and is also relatively light coming in at 14.6 ounces.

Join Amazon Prime for $79.00 a year (first month is free) and you’ll not only enjoy unlimited FREE Two-Day Shipping on all orders, no minimum order size and one-day shipping for $3.99/item you’ll also get unlimited instant streaming of thousands of movies and TV shows.

If you’re a content junkie like we are then the Amazon Kindle Fire will provide you a fast, reliable and colorful way to feed at content habit. As usual if there’s ever a problem with your new Amazon Kindle Fire, Amazon is only a phone call, email or chat away.

The Amazon Kindle Fire appears to be a great little computing device, but it does have its limitations such as only one USB Port, no SDHC slot for expansion and only 8 GB of storage. When taken into account that this is a content consumption device more than a computer and the fact that it’s under $200 the above items shouldn’t be a deal breaker.

If you’re looking for more from a tablet such as size, storage and expandability then you may want to look into a higher end Android tablet such as the Acer Android tablet or the Toshiba Android tablet.

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