Amazon’s intensely-awaited tablet Kindle Fire is up for grabs in U.S. The leading online vendor has floated up its first tablet PC on 15, November 2011 as it was scheduled. Kindle Fire is really a tablet version of Amazon’s Kindle eReader. The company has been in eReading market for last four years. From early this year, tech blogs have been rumoring over a tablet PC from Amazon. Indeed, it has realized now. Kindle Fire runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and it has special features for eReading, web surfing and music listening. Here are five things you should know about Kindle Fire.
Amazon Kindle Fire
A 7-incher
Kindle Fire sports a 7-inch display. The device is one of the first tablets to arrive with 7-inch display. The tablet market is slowly shifting from large displays to 7-inch and other small displays. Of course, Kindle Fire has initiated the 7-inch frenzy. After its announcement, many other companies including Barnes & Noble, Kobo Inc. and Samsung have announced their 7-inch tablets, respectively Nook Tablet, Kobo Vox and Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. Yes, the 7-inch tablet market is growing faster with more and more advanced products.
Rich content
You may know that Kindle Fire is a multimedia tablet mainly for eReading, video and music consumption. The device, coming from the world’s biggest online vendor, has rich sources for contents. Amazon sells most of books on the web and it has large video and audio content sources. Besides all, Amazon has recently stated that Kindle Fire will support Netflix, Pandora and Hulu Plus, leading sources for music, movies and TV shows on the web.
Unbeatable price
Amazon sells Kindle Fire for a stunning price of $199. It is now one of the cheapest Android tablets we have on market. The price tag is around $200 lower than the price of iPad 2, the chief contender of Kindle Fire. Influenced by Kindle Fire’s pricing, Kobo and Samsung have priced their tablets the same amount.
No cameras
Unfortunately enough, Kindle Fire is without any cameras. These days, most technological products – smartphones, tablets music players – comes with cameras for photo capturing and video calling. But Kindle Fire does not have both cameras. It means you won’t be able to video-chat with friends on the device. It is one of big drawbacks of the device.
Unlimited storage
You may feel amazed to hear that Kindle Fire is with unlimited storage; because it mounts an 8GB built-in memory with no SD card slots. Then what brings unlimited storage to Kindle Fire is that it is with Amazon Cloud Drive for unlimited data uploading. Apart from the 8GB built-in memory, you can upload images, books, magazines and newspapers on the cloud drive.
Remember these five things before rushing to buy a Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon has started shipping the device to stores and it is also available for grabs at Amazon. If you love reading eBooks, magazines and newspapers on a multimedia tablet, rush to buy a Kindle Fire.
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About the author: Samantha Harper is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on environment and technology. Beside this she is fond of gizmos. These days she is busy in writing an article on cheap cell phone plans.
