Amazon Tablet - a real rival to the iPad at last?
The iPad has been the only tablet in town - realistically, for some time. However, things might be about the change, the Amazon tablet Fire runs Android and offers real price competition as just $179 - $199 a pop. It will be on-sale in mid November in the US, more likely 2012 for the UK.
It is a seven-inch tablet running a customised Android OS and offers Amazon content including music, films, TV shows, games, e-books, newspapers, magazines and Apps. It also includes Amazon Instant Video allowing owners to stream or download, purchase or rent or get unlimited access with Amazon Prime subscription service. Amazon’s MP3 store is included – more than 1 million Kindle e-books, graphic novels, magazines etc. The Amazon Android App Store is apparently going to offer a free paid for App every day!
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, said “Kindle Fire brings together all of the things we’ve been working on at Amazon for over 15 years into a single, fully integrated service for customers”.
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