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Amazon to sell 6 million Kindle Fire tablets, 8 million eReaders in Q4
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a smash hit, with fourth-quarter sales that may exceed even the most lofty estimates reported ahead of the tablet’s recent launch. In just over six weeks of availability this quarter, analysts at Goldman Sachs estimate that Amazon will sell as many as 6 million Kindle Fire tablets. Add to that another 8 million Kindle-branded eBook readers the firm sees Amazon selling between October and the end of this year, and the retailer looks to be in store for a huge holiday quarter. ”While the Kindle Fire certainly doesn’t have the breadth of functionality of the iPad (no camera or microphone, shorter battery life and less memory), it does a few things very well, which just ha...
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Amazon Kindle Fire to get software update within two weeks
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Amazon has revealed to the New York Times that a software update is coming for the Kindle Fire tablet that will address a number of the concerns that users have had with the tablet since its launch.
According to a company spokesman, the update will offer improved performance and multitouch navigation and will allow users to edit the carousel of recently-accessed items.
Amazon did not specifically say when the update would be delivered to users, but it said that it aims to release it within the next two weeks.
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Update coming in less than two weeks for Amazon Kindle Fire
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Sure, the Amazon Kindle Fire has been selling like the plate of proverbial hotcakes and is expected to be the top selling non-Apple tablet this quarter. But the growing legion of buyers is turning into a growing number of complaints with users upset with laggy touch-screen responsiveness and poor performance of the tablet in general. There is also no privacy to users of the tablet who can easily see what prior users were up to on the device. As a result, Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener promised the New York Times that an update to repair many of the problems would be sent out within two weeks. Amazon had already updated the tablet to software version 6.2 last month. Additionally, a usability ...
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Rumor: Amazon Kindle Fire launching in the UK next month?
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Amazon’s 7 inch Android tablet that isn’t an Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, has been out in the United States for a few weeks now. Sadly, for everyone else on the planet it isn’t. According to the folks at Know Your Mobile, that’s soon going to change, at least for the UK. They say that the Kindle Fire will launch as early as next month in Jolly Ol’ England. No other details, such as the all important price tag, were revealed. Now to be completely honest, we don’t buy this rumor. History has a way of repeating itself, so let’s look at what happened with the first Kindle. It came out in November 2007, was out of stock until April 2008, and it never left America. The second Kindle came out i...
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Kindle Fire offers 'disappointingly poor' user experience, UI expert says
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User interface expert Dr. Jakob Nielsen, who describes himself as an author, researcher and consultant on user interfaces, recently studied the user experience of the Kindle Fire and dubbed it “disappointingly poor.” Nielsen said the lack of physical buttons impeded the reading experience, the device was too heavy and was “unpleasant to hold for long periods of time,” and while there was potential for a good magazine reading experience, Nielsen said the result was “miserable.” Nielsen even proposes a bit of a conspiracy theory to why the web browsing experience on the Kindle Fire might be inferior to other devices. “If I were given to conspiracy theories, I’d say that Amazon deliberately des...
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Now you can install the Android Market on your rooted Kindle Fire
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Hackers have been making steady progress on the Kindle Fire, but a fairly important milestone was reached yesterday – rooted users can install the Android Market, providing access to all of the Android apps they already purchased through the official market. Prior to this, users had to choose between repurchasing the apps from Amazon’s market or installing a custom ROM.
Amazon may not be thrilled – they are selling each Fire at a loss and hope to make their profit from selling users content. This is a victory for consumers, however, who will most likely still want to use Amazon’s services, but not be forced to double-dip on apps they already paid money for.
The method involves connecting you...
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Forced Kindle Fire update strips roots, Android Market hack
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Amazon is now updating the Kindle Fire with required software updates that updates the device's software to version 6.2. While Amazon kept quiet about exactly what the update included, the software removes the ability to break the root file, AndroidPolice reported. The software also makes the Kindle Fire update automatically over Wi-Fi in the future, without giving users a clear way of opting out.
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PhoneArena awards 2011: Game-changing product
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the PhoneArena awards of 2011! Today, we are here to honor the game-changing product of the year; the product that boldly broke the well-established standards of the wireless industry and grabbed the attention of consumers and manufacturers alike.
Some might think that the device we have in mind today has the tech specs of a rocket ship and the looks of a luxury car, but they would all be wrong. For the game-changing product of 2011 brags neither with its hardware nor with its visual appeal. Instead, it stands out with its extensive set of features delivered at an almost too good to be true price.
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Amazon Kindle Fire hacked to run CyanogenMod 7
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Though Amazon may have buried Android under a deep layer of custom interfaces on the Kindle Fire, underneath it all, it is still Android at its base, which means that enterprising hackers are going to tinker with it. That tinkering is already bearing fruit, as everyone's favorite custom Android ROM, CyanogenMod 7, has been shown booting on the Kindle Fire.
The developers that got CyanogenMod working on the Fire have not yet released it for public consumption, as it is mostly a proof of concept at this point. Its not for the faint of heart either, as it does not have the Amazon Silk Browser or the tight integration with Amazon's book, music, and video services - arguably the most valuable par...
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Amazon Kindle Fire registers strong Black Friday sales, 8 week on top of Amazon's charts
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The Amazon Kindle Fire might not be a direct iPad competitor, but it’s shaping up to be the second most successful tablet on the market. Amazon has issued a rosy press release confirming the huge demand for the Kindle Fire, which has stayed on top of Amazon.com’s best selling devices for 8 weeks in a row.
The $199 7-inch tablet offers a heavily skinned version of Android and serves more as a gateway to Amazon’s massive ecosystem of content rather than offering the full-fledged Android experience. To confirm that, estimates have revealed that Amazon might be selling the Fire at a loss, hoping to reap the benefits of having more customers in its ecosystem. Along with the lack of Android Marke...
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Amazon may move 12 million Kindle Fire tablets in 2012
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We like the Kindle Fire’s odds, and we revealed as much in our review of Amazon’s new tablet published on Tuesday. Analysts have been betting on the Fire as well, with shipment estimates reaching as high as 5 million units for the fourth quarter alone. As detailed in a recent note to investors, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney sees Amazon’s success in the tablet market spilling into the new year, with sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets reaching 12 million units for the full year in 2012. Increasing competition and falling prices could make 12 million tablets a tall order, but if Amazon can pull it off, it will manage to acquire 15% of the tablet market and roughly $3.2 billion in revenue th...
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Amazon Kindle Fire hack allows installing Google apps, Nook Tablet can get the Amazon Appstore
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The Amazon Kindle Fire shocked us with its $199 price tag – after all, that's more than twice cheaper than the iPad, but with the lower price you'd have to compromise. The Kindle Fire features a dual-core processor, but still can't match in the spec race, but what could be more troubling for some – it doesn't have core apps like the Android Market with its hundreds of thousands of apps, and Google's suite of applications including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Talk and Books among others.
But after all, the Kindle Fire does run on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, albeit a heavily skinned version, so it should be able of running those applications. And it does – you'll just need to spend some time rooting th...
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Kindle Fire rooted and splayed, source code released
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The Kindle Fire — it's just a BlackBerry PlayBook with a big Kindle logo imprinted on its back, right? To help you answer that burning question, iFixit has taken Amazon's brand new Android tablet into the lab and subjected it to the usual teardown treatment. The first major difference between the Fire and the PlayBook is in the port selection: Amazon offers just a 3.5mm headphone jack and a MicroUSB port that doubles up as both a data connector and power intake. There's also a power button sitting next to them and that's all the intrigue you'll find on the outside. No volume controls like on the PlayBook or any other portable device.
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Amazon Kindle Fire catches the eye of Android developers
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Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet hasn't quite yet hit the hands of would-be buyers, but that hasn't stopped developers from saying that it is the most desired of all Android tablets to create apps for. Appcelerator and IDC polled almost 2,200 developers this month, and the Kindle Fire edged out the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the most attractive Android tablet to target their efforts at.
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Apple says Kindle Fire is actually good for them
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When the Amazon Kindle Fire was announced a couple of weeks ago carrying a price tag of only $200, for the first time we thought that the iPad really has gotten some competition.
The Kindle Fire is smaller at 7 inches, but offers a dual-core processor and a heavily modified Android that make it desirable.
Now, you might expect Apple to be challenged, but CFO Peter Oppenheimer actually said the Fire was good for the iPad. How come? Here's what Barclays published based on an interview with Oppenheimer:
“While the pricing at $199 looks disruptive for what seems to be the iPad’s most important rising challenge, the Amazon Fire – it is important to note that it could fuel further fragmentation ...
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