Amazon is coming out with two new Kindle Fire Tablets – the HD and HD
8.9″. Both tabs offer a full array of new features over the first
Kindle Fire introduced last year. The base Fire remains in Amazon’s
expanding stable of tablets and its price has dropped $40, to $159.
Although it still has the original tab’s lower resolution 7-inch screen,
it now has double the RAM, a 40 percent faster CPU and boasts longer
battery life.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet
The new Kindle Fire HD has a 7-inch display with 1920×800 HD resolution and is available in 16GB and
32GB variations,
priced
$199 and $249, respectively. The new tablet is powered by a 1.2GHz
dual-core CPU and is equipped with an HD front-facing camera that
supports Skype integration, plus the new Amazon tab reportedly will
provide the user with 11 hours of battery life. Amazon is indicating its
HD tablets, which are outfitted with dual-band Wi-Fi, will receive
faster download speeds when compared to the New iPad and Google Nexus 7
Tablet. USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) and Micro-HDMI (micro-D connector)
ports are two of its features and the device is also outfitted with an
ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope.
Kindle Fire HD 8.9
With the exception of processor model and screen size, the new 8.9-inch and 7-inch Amazon tablets are essentially the same, spec-for-spec. T
he
HD 8.9 features a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU and an 8.9-inch display with
1920×1200 resolution. This model is available in Wi-Fi-only or Wi-Fi +
4G LTE variants. The 4G version will run on AT&T’s LTE network in
the U.S. The Wi-Fi only version will cost $299 for 16GB storage and $369
for 32G of storage. Prices for the 4G LTE version is $499 and $599 for
16GB and 32GB, respectively.
New Tablets for Christmas 2012
Amazon knows many parents will soon be looking to buy an appropriate new tablet for children for Christmas 2012. In a brilliant bit of Holiday Season timing, the company’s new HD tablet line will come preloaded with “Kindle FreeTime.” With this new app, parents can limit which apps their kids use and also limit the amount of time they are allowed to use the tablet.
Would you like some ads with those fries?
Advertisements will appear on the lockscreens and home screens of these new tabs. Initially the e-retailer wasn’t offering to remove them for a buy-out price, as it had with its original Kindle Fire. But a few days after its new tablet and eReader media event, Amazon finally came out and said that for $15 owners could opt out of these “special offers” after registering their device.
This illustrates how new mobile tablet hardware is progressively being made to serve two masters – the owner of the tablet and the tablet’s maker. For Amazon, every new Kindle tablet sold dynamically serves as one more high performance advertising delivery device for the company. Or, it wins a $15 “consolation prize” from those customers who elect not to play.
incremental device improvements bring incremental customer conditioning
But this may actually tell us more about the typical Kindle buyer (and a growing number of other mobile device buyers) than it does the seller. Amazon knows its customers very well. And it knows its market better than anybody because it essentially invented it. We’ll be able to opt-out of the ads for a relatively small cost after accomplishing some time-consuming (like 3-minute) procedure. Like those of us prompted to make a purchase at Fry’s or Best Buy because of a great mail-in rebate offer that we never get around to mailing, Amazon has likely already projected out, by quarter, the tablet customer segment who will convince themselves that they’ll opt out of the ads but never will.
The Soundtrack of our Lives
But a lot of people don’t seem to mind the ads. “Look around,” as Nitrozac and Snaggy has their Jeff Bezos point out to us in their recent Joy of Tech comic. “What once seemed widely annoying and totally unacceptable is now Completely Normal!”
Many musicians have become famous because their unknown song was the soundtrack for a popular ad – a 180-degree shift from not too long ago and propelled even further recently thanks to apps like Shazam. And for those of us who enjoy ADD/OCD-ing our movie-watching experience by incessantly searching for info about the film’s stars, there’s now an app for that –”X-Ray For Movies.” Amazon’s new movie viewer app will let us call up information about an actress, actor and other related info simply by touching the screen as we watch the movie.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD Tablet
The new Kindle Fire HD has a 7-inch display with 1920×800 HD resolution and is available in 16GB and
32GB variations,
priced
$199 and $249, respectively. The new tablet is powered by a 1.2GHz
dual-core CPU and is equipped with an HD front-facing camera that
supports Skype integration, plus the new Amazon tab reportedly will
provide the user with 11 hours of battery life. Amazon is indicating its
HD tablets, which are outfitted with dual-band Wi-Fi, will receive
faster download speeds when compared to the New iPad and Google Nexus 7
Tablet. USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) and Micro-HDMI (micro-D connector)
ports are two of its features and the device is also outfitted with an
ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope.Kindle Fire HD 8.9
With the exception of processor model and screen size, the new 8.9-inch and 7-inch Amazon tablets are essentially the same, spec-for-spec. T
he
HD 8.9 features a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU and an 8.9-inch display with
1920×1200 resolution. This model is available in Wi-Fi-only or Wi-Fi +
4G LTE variants. The 4G version will run on AT&T’s LTE network in
the U.S. The Wi-Fi only version will cost $299 for 16GB storage and $369
for 32G of storage. Prices for the 4G LTE version is $499 and $599 for
16GB and 32GB, respectively.New Tablets for Christmas 2012
Amazon knows many parents will soon be looking to buy an appropriate new tablet for children for Christmas 2012. In a brilliant bit of Holiday Season timing, the company’s new HD tablet line will come preloaded with “Kindle FreeTime.” With this new app, parents can limit which apps their kids use and also limit the amount of time they are allowed to use the tablet.
Would you like some ads with those fries?
Advertisements will appear on the lockscreens and home screens of these new tabs. Initially the e-retailer wasn’t offering to remove them for a buy-out price, as it had with its original Kindle Fire. But a few days after its new tablet and eReader media event, Amazon finally came out and said that for $15 owners could opt out of these “special offers” after registering their device.
This illustrates how new mobile tablet hardware is progressively being made to serve two masters – the owner of the tablet and the tablet’s maker. For Amazon, every new Kindle tablet sold dynamically serves as one more high performance advertising delivery device for the company. Or, it wins a $15 “consolation prize” from those customers who elect not to play.
incremental device improvements bring incremental customer conditioning
But this may actually tell us more about the typical Kindle buyer (and a growing number of other mobile device buyers) than it does the seller. Amazon knows its customers very well. And it knows its market better than anybody because it essentially invented it. We’ll be able to opt-out of the ads for a relatively small cost after accomplishing some time-consuming (like 3-minute) procedure. Like those of us prompted to make a purchase at Fry’s or Best Buy because of a great mail-in rebate offer that we never get around to mailing, Amazon has likely already projected out, by quarter, the tablet customer segment who will convince themselves that they’ll opt out of the ads but never will.
The Soundtrack of our Lives
But a lot of people don’t seem to mind the ads. “Look around,” as Nitrozac and Snaggy has their Jeff Bezos point out to us in their recent Joy of Tech comic. “What once seemed widely annoying and totally unacceptable is now Completely Normal!”
Many musicians have become famous because their unknown song was the soundtrack for a popular ad – a 180-degree shift from not too long ago and propelled even further recently thanks to apps like Shazam. And for those of us who enjoy ADD/OCD-ing our movie-watching experience by incessantly searching for info about the film’s stars, there’s now an app for that –”X-Ray For Movies.” Amazon’s new movie viewer app will let us call up information about an actress, actor and other related info simply by touching the screen as we watch the movie.
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