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Amazon Set to Unveil $199 'Kindle Fire' Tablet
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The IQ of some here is lower than the temperature on a cold winter day in Green Bay.
I wonder how the pre fetch is going to interact with pay per view like the New York Times. Sounds like some crazy combination of the old AOL proxy system and Opera Mini. So much internet content is now personalised and customised I would be a little worried about what could go wrong if they get too aggressive with their optimisations.
From what I've read, the Fire doesn't connect to the Android App Market, it only connects to Amazon's limited market.
It also appears from the commercial (not sure if it's been confirmed or not yet) not to even have an accelerometer built in, as the lady in the ad has to hit an onscreen button to flip the image.
Has anyone found out if it has the rumored two-finger-only multitouch? That would also limit a lot of what this thing can do.
It runs an ancient version of Android.
It looks attractive and I'm sure will sell well, but with some of the basic things that make an iPad an iPad, I fail to see how this is true competition. It seems to be set up to dominate the Nook, not the iPad.
It also appears from the commercial (not sure if it's been confirmed or not yet) not to even have an accelerometer built in, as the lady in the ad has to hit an onscreen button to flip the image.
Has anyone found out if it has the rumored two-finger-only multitouch? That would also limit a lot of what this thing can do.
It runs an ancient version of Android.
It looks attractive and I'm sure will sell well, but with some of the basic things that make an iPad an iPad, I fail to see how this is true competition. It seems to be set up to dominate the Nook, not the iPad.
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It's competition.
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That being said. Wasn't it kindle that always said it was lightweight and did its job as a book reader?
Guess they found out that people want more than just a book reader.
People bash apple then they end up following them.
Lack of apps?
It uses the Amazon Apps store, so there's already plenty of apps available for it.
Remember... it's Android. Android 2.1 to be exact.
This means it will be rooted and have side loading the day it's released.
The devs on XDA should have it running Gingerbread in pretty short order.
Amazon never mentioned hard drive size here. It's a far stretch but a possibility that this device has no HD in place of amazons cloud services.
I'm not interested in the Kindle Fire, but the Kindle Touch seems like an amazing deal for a great product.
I am talking about the same degree of enthusiasm that developers have on the iPad. Sure, Amazon App Store has a good number of apps, but this time there could be real developer interest aka developers creating apps for the Kindle Fire to reach Apple App Store momentum.
All it needs is a user base. Which will happen after Christmas. Then the 10' Fire will be announced.
It has 8GB internal storage.
What wasn't mentioned on the tech specs was how much ram it has.
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-...pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321408942&pf_rd_i=507846
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+1 on this
That Kindle Touch will be my primary holiday gift for friends and family.
The same way we've been doing it... forever really. An HTTP request/response always contains a Date field in the response (I think it's called Last-Modified), indicating the timestamp of the last content update. So as a proxy server, by this timestamp, you can evaluate if your cached content is up to date for serving or if you need to fetch the newer content and cache it.
And since you can use the HEAD directive instead of the GET directive to only fetch the headers for a certain request, you can check this timestamp by only doing a couple of bytes of transmission rather than retransmitting the content all the time.
Then there's the Pragma: No-cache directive that can be inserted into paywall and dynamically personalized content to prevent caching of it.
Cool I just read "Free storage in the Amazon Cloud" which was a tad misleading.
The iPad is not a computer replacement at all. It's way too limited in every respect. It could be a computer replacement but the lack of a file system, the lack of printing capabilities, the lack of USB access (or any other open interface to connect devices) and many other limtations mean it is not a computer replacement. This is not about CPU power. It's about general usability for average productivity tasks that I could do on my Mac IIsi 15 years ago. The entire concept of the iPad is to be different than a classic computer.
iPad's are great for consuming media. The kindle is in that sense a more radical version of the iPad because it's cheap enough for the mass market and even more limtied as a computer.
I'm seriously considering to replace my planned upgrade to the iPad3 with a Kindle (plus a 11"MBA) unless the iPad 3/iOS5 becomes a lot more like a computer.
Read the tech specs... they're very clear about it.
"Free cloud storage for all Amazon content"
It has 8 GB of internal storage.
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-...pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321411382&pf_rd_i=507846
This one is funny :
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Seems like th specs are being thrown around. This is the same site that many say it's not about spec?
We have iPads, however the kindle is on the stocking stuffer list this year.
This announcement is very exciting. We are leaning towards a fire and a regular kindle.
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It has 512MB. Also it doesn't seem to have anything else but a power button.
From Engadget :
What it won't have, though, is the number of physical inputs. It'll make do with just a power button and nothing more -- if you want to turn down the volume you'll need to dive into the status bar. Whether or not that proves to be an annoyance in the long-run remains to be seen, but we're thinking it will be.
Software performance seems quite smart at this point, switching tasks and apps in rapid fire during the demo we were given. We were only shown a brief glimpse of the new Silk browser, but we must say the thing appears to deliver on its promises. The dual-core 1GHz, TI OMAP processor certainly seems adequate, too, even if it is only paired with 512MB of memory. It also has 8GB of storage on tap -- a bit light these days, but with all your content synced online, in theory there's no need for more. In theory.
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