Amazon Kindle Fire and New Kindle

Today at a press conference in New York, the head of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, showed several new products at once, the most interesting of which is the Kindle Fire , a tablet computer closely integrated with various Amazon services and stores.

The Kindle Fire has a seven-inch screen, 8 GB of memory and will cost $ 199. It does not have 3G, camera and microphone, but there is WiFi. The weight of the device is 415 grams. Delivery of the Kindle Fire will begin on November 15, but you can pre-order the device now.
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The main purpose of Kindle Fire will be the consumption of various multimedia content: listening to music, reading books, watching movies. Amazon has its own store for each of these types of content.

Everything that a user buys in Amazon stores is tied to his account, so any content can always be downloaded from the Internet to any Amazon device.

Kindle Fire is built on the Android operating system, but the user will never know about it, because Amazon completely redid the interface and uses Android only as a technology platform.

Kindle Fire software will be sold in the Amazon Appstore. There will be no official Google apps on the Kindle Fire.

Amazon Silk

One of Amazon’s innovative ideas is to render pages on its own EC2 servers and deliver it to the Kindle Fire browser to view the pages already collected from various files. This greatly speeds up the opening of complex sites like cnn.com. In essence, Amazon will cache the entire Internet and deliver the cached pages to Kindle Fire from its servers. This technology was called Amazon Silk.

Amazon Silk video:


Kindle Fire, B & N Nook and iPad 2 feature comparison from the blog This is my next :



Official Kindle Fire video:

Kindle with electronic ink screens

In addition to the tablet computer, Amazon also introduced three Kindle models for reading with an electronic ink screen: an updated Kindle , a Kindle touch, and a Kindle touch 3G with a touch screen.

Kindle

• 6 inch screen
• 2 GB of memory, which is enough to store approximately 1,400 books
• battery for 1 month of use
• WiFi
• size 16.5 x 11.4 x 0.86 cm
• weight 169 grams

Kindle touch

• 6 inch screen
• 4 GB of memory, which is enough to store approximately 3000 books
• battery for 2 months of use
• WiFi
• 3G option
• size 17.2 x 11.9 x 1.01 cm
• weight 212 grams / 221 grams for a model with 3G

Prices

Amazon pricing is tricky. Each device can be purchased a little cheaper by agreeing that when you do not use it, ads will appear on the screen.

• Kindle - 79 dollars with advertising and 109 without it.
• Kindle touch - $ 99 with advertising and 139 without it.
• Kindle touch 3G 149 dollars with advertising or 189 without it.

The price of Kindle touch 3G includes free 3G Internet in one hundred countries of the world.

Kindle touch and Kindle touch 3G will begin shipping to customers on November 21. The updated Kindle is coming in direct sale today.