The Amazon Kindle Fire is an Android-based tablet from the online giant retailer, which is having all the mid-range specifications. It looks a lot like a BlackBerry PlayBook.
Amazon Kindle Fire runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS with Amazon’s own eye-candy overlay on top of it, sporting a 7″ IPS-LCD backlit display with 1024 X 600 pixels of resolution with Gorilla Glass coating, powered by a 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP4 processor, 8GB of internal memory storage, 512MB RAM to keep things running, 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity, top-mounted stereo speakers, access to the Amazon’s own App Store, Kindle books, full-color magazines, etc. — all stored for free via Amazon Cloud Storage, access for 100,000 movies and TV shows, 17 million songs and much more. Amazon is also throwing a 30-day trial of Amazon Prime. Whispersync works with movies and TV Shows. Kindle Fire is also bringing an incredible computational horsepower of Amazon EC2 to accelerate mobile browsing with the help of “Amazon Silk” browser.
Sadly, Amazon kindle Fire is lacking camera and 3G connectivity and there is no access for Android Market.
Specifications Of Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet
| Network | |
| 2G Network | NO |
| 3G Network | NO |
| Dimensions | |
| Size | 190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm |
| Weight | 14.6 ounces (413 grams) |
| Form Factor | Candybar Touch Tablet |
| Display | |
| Type | IPS-LCD Touchscreen |
| Size | 7.1-inch |
| Resolution | 1024 X 600 pixels |
| Input/ User Interface | Gorilla Coating Multi Touch Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate Light-Sensor (Ambient) Gyroscope |
| System Properties | |
| Operating System | Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS |
| CPU | TI OMAP4 Dual-Core 1GHz Processor 512MB RAM |
| Storage Capacity | |
| Internal Memory | – 8GB Internal Memory Storage |
| Expandable Memory | — |
| Browser & Messaging | HTML, Flash MMS, SMS, IM, Email, RSS |
| Camera | |
| Still | NO |
| Secondary | NO |
| Video Recording | NO |
| Connectivity | |
| Bluetooth | — |
| USB | v2.0 Micro USB |
| Headset | 3.5mm stereo headset jack |
| Radio | – |
| WLAN | 802.11 Wi-Fi b/g/n |
| GPS | — |
| 3G | NO |
| Video & Audio | |
| Audio & Video Formats | Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8. |
| Battery | |
| Type | Li-Ion Standard Battery |
| Video Playback Time | Up to 7.5 Hours |
| Usage Time | Up to 8 hours of Continuous Reading |
| Other Features | Android Flash Support G-mail, Google Maps, G-Talk Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Picasa Whispersync Free Cloud Backup |
| Colors Availability | Black |
Price & Availability
The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet will be available to purchase for just $199.99 without your signature on any contract plans. The tablet will be shipping from November 15th.
Users will be getting 30-day free trial of Amazon Prime, which is $79-a-year membership service that includes streaming video and free two-day shipping.
Pre-Order: You can now Pre-order Amazon Kindle Fire at Amazon (hit the link) for $199.
Fullspecs? Where? You are missing Weight, Resolution, CPU, and Memory. Change the name of the article.
will this device be able to connect via cable to HDTV screen to view movies, magazines, etc..???
Have a couple of questions. Would it play DIVX/XVID (MPEG-4 part 2) or does it only do MPEG-4 part 12 (MP4)? Having never used anything “smart” before, a naive question perhaps: would it be possible to install applications that user wishes or is it going to be locked into whatever Amazon decides to provide?
Thanks!
What about GPS? It’s critical to many aps you might want on this thing.
Doubt it
will future versions have the capability of expandable memory?
What is the system memory? 256 or 512?
It does not have Bluetooth
You don’t need a Kindle to read Amazon Kindle eBooks. You can download the free Kindle Ereader for Windows to your netbook or laptop or desktop and do everything. So why bother with a limited device mainly for eBooks? No reason that I can see!!
Looks like it would be good for kids and a score for education in general. We’re talking 200 bucks here people don’t expect a Ferrari when you’re paying for a Pinto!
Not really impressed…Gingerbread? Ug. 8 gigs of storage, 512 megs of ram is really small amount especially with no expansion. The only thing I can see this doing is improving android tablet market share which I suppose is good for those of us who own other tablets. Was really hoping for something bit beefier from amazon but guess cant argue with the price.
If it doesn’t have HDMI output, USB Port to connect USB 3G, MicroSD Slot and it’s CPU is not at least 1ghz armv7 Cortex then I am sticking to my Meiying M11 (1024*768 IPS, HDMI, MicroSD, 1.2Ghz A8 Cortex CPU, Android 2.3 and fluent 1080p h264 streaming), Zenithink C91 & Aishuo A816 Capacitive. Their cost is also up to $200.