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Amazon launches new high-tech tablets Fire and Kindle readers at crazy low prices

Today, September 6, at a special press conference, Amazon announced the release of new versions of the Kindle Fire tablet and the Kindle reader. We are waiting for a whole wave of innovation at affordable prices.

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Forward!

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Updated Kindle Fire



Amazon has officially unveiled its long-awaited Kindle Fire tablet. The presentation took place just a few days after the last year’s Kindle Fire model inventory was sold.

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The tablet will come with a new processor, 1 GB of RAM, which is twice as much as in the previous model, with a longer-lasting battery and will be available for $ 159 already from September 14.

New Kindle Fire HD


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It was also announced the release of two versions of the tablet Kindle Fire HD c 7 and 8.9-inch screen. The big novelty got an IPS-screen resolution of 1920x1200. Screen resolution 7-inch model will be 1280x800. The screen covering itself is touch and anti-reflective. There is a HD camera, HDMI output, Bluetooth. The tablet runs on an OMAP 4.470 processor from Texas Instruments, which, according to Amazon, is superior to Tegra 3. The amount of RAM is 1 GB. The Kindle Fire HD also includes stereo speakers with Dolby technology and, for the first time, support for dual-band MIMO Wi-Fi. The operating system is highly modified Android 4.0. New software chips - X-Ray for the movie, during which you can click on the actor’s face during the movie and get IMDB information on it, as well as the synchronous reading mode for audio books, during which while listening on the screen in “karaoke mode” "Read over" the read text.

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For the version with a 7-inch screen and 16 GB of internal memory, they ask for only $ 199, for a 32-gigabyte one - $ 249. And for the version with the 8.9-inch FULL HD-screen - $ 299, for the version with 32 GB - $ 369. Sales of this version will begin in November.

Kindle Fire HD LTE


In addition, for the US market will Kindle Fire HD 8.9 LTE with support for 4G networks and a memory capacity of 32 gigabytes. It will cost $ 499, not counting the annual subscription to online services Amazon.
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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite


Amazon has released a new version of the Kindle Reader . Already from October 1 (pre-orders are already now) it will be possible to purchase a reader with Paperwhite technology (25% more contrast screen), a capacitive sensor, HD resolution and backlight, which, according to information, took 4 years of research. Thickness is 9 mm, weight is 215 grams. The battery for 8 weeks of work and the feature of calculating the amount of time remaining until the end of the book, based on the speed of reading. The Wi-Fi version costs $ 119, and the 3G version costs $ 179.
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Well, a little updated the cheapest Amazon Kindle , it is now smaller in size, weight, with an increased by 15% turning speed and cheaper by $ 10 - $ 69
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In my opinion, the prices are just great! And the improvements are very encouraging.

Via Bigmir with additions and clarifications.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/151031/


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