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Kindle Fire
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DeveloperAmazon.com
ManufacturerQuanta Computer[1]
Generation1st
Release dateNovember 15, 2011
Introductory price$199 USD
Operating systemAndroid 2.3
CPUTI OMAP 4 (dual core)[2]
Memory512MB[3]
Storage8 GB[4]
Display7" multi-touch gorilla glass display, 1024×600 at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.[4] Capacitive touch sensitive.[5]
Connectivitymicro-USB 2.0 (type B)
3.5 mm TRRS[citation needed]
Dimensions7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm)
Mass413 grams (14.6 oz)

The Kindle Fire[6] is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire will have a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and run on a forked version of Google's Android operating system. It includes access to Amazon's app store, streaming movies and TV shows in addition to Kindle's e-books. It is scheduled to be released in mid November. The device will sell for US$199.[7] Its external dimensions are 7.5" x 4.7". Excluding its external border the screen is a little larger than a 4x6 picture.

Design

The Kindle Fire, on its launch, will run a customized Android 2.3 OS (Gingerbread)[8] on a 1 GHz TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor. The screen is a touch sensitive 1024x600 7" color screen. Connectivity options are limited to WiFi (b/g/n) and USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) and will not have 3G or Bluetooth at launch. The device will include 8GB internal storage - said to be enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books,[9] but will not have expandable storage such as a SD card slot.[citation needed]

Besides access to Amazon Appstore, the Kindle Fire will include a cloud-accelerated "split browser" called Amazon Silk, free storage for all of the user's Amazon digital content in the Amazon EC2 cloud, built-in email app that gets webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail etc.) into a single inbox and a free month of Amazon Prime (which includes unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 movies and TV shows and free two day shipping on millions of items) at the time of its launch.

Content formats supported are Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8. It does not support the standard EPUB book format used by Google Books and some other publishers.

See also

  • Nook Color, similar color E-reader released by Barnes & Noble in 2010.

References

  1. ^ Amazon to burn new Kindle Fire tablet this week, says report, retrieved 29 September 2011 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  2. ^ Casey Johnston (28 September 2011), "Amazon unveils $199 Android Kindle Fire tablet, $99 e-ink Kindle Touch", arstechnica.com, Ars Technica
  3. ^ Dan Grabham (29 September 2011), "Kindle Fire vs iPad 2 vs Galaxy Tab 7.7 vs HTC Flyer", www.techradar.com, TechRadar
  4. ^ a b Tyler Lee (28 September 2011), "Amazon Kindle Fire unveiled", www.ubergizmo.com {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  5. ^ Shahbaaz (28 September 2011), "Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire Android Tablet ($199) & Kindle Touch ($99), Kindle 2011 Priced at $79!", tnerd.com {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  6. ^ "Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi", www.amazon.com, retrieved 28 September 2011 {{citation}}: Text "publisher [[[Amazon.com]]" ignored (help)
  7. ^ "Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet to sell at $199, challenging iPad". Chicago Tribune. 28 September 2011.
  8. ^ "Amazon's Kindle Fire UI: it's Android, but not quite". thisismynext.com. This Is My Next. 28 September 2011.
  9. ^ Sources:
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