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Amazon may sell over 5 million Kindle Fire tablets in Q4
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Amazon could ship 5 million or more Kindle Fire tablets in the fourth quarter of 2011, one analyst believes. Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar on Thursday stated that Amazon likely has a huge hit on its hands, with fourth-quarter shipments that may surpass even the most bullish estimates. ”Checks indicate that they could ship upwards of 5 million units in the December quarter, which is just shy of half of Apple’s volume,” Kumar told CNET in an interview. An earlier rumor from DigiTimes suggested that Amazon has placed orders in the neighborhood of 4 million units, and preliminary shipment estimates from Forrester suggested that Amazon might ship 5 million tablets this quarter. Barclays se...
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Kindle Fire Already Drawing Patent Lawsuits
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The Kindle Fire isn’t even due to ship to consumers for another month, but already it has attracted its first patent suit. Smartphone Technologies LLC, which as far as we can tell doesn’t actually make anything, has sued Amazon for infringing on four of its patents. These patents seem to describe operating a touchscreen device by tapping on icons; apparently that’s a real patent.
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Amazon slashes price of Samsung Epic 4G Touch
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Amazon has already slashed the price of the Samsung Epic 4G Touch and is offering the Sprint variant of the Galaxy S II for only $99.99 for a new line of service or $149.99 with a qualified two-year upgrade.
Amazon has made dramatic price cuts before and this one definitely should not be overlooked. The Samsung Epic 4G Touch is perhaps the best device currently available in Sprint’s stable of smartphones. Sprint version of the Galaxy S II features a massive 4.52-inch Super AMOLED Plus display and is powered by a dual-core 1.2GHz Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM. It also features the latest version of Android in the form of 2.3.4 Gingerbread.
The back of the smartphone houses an 8 megapixel ...
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Amazon brings Kindle and associated ebook shop to France
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France is getting the Kindle! No, seriously, until now the land of baguettes and Nicolas Sarkozy has had to make do without the world's most popular ebook reader. Starting today though, our French friends can pre-order a Kindle (no touch and no keyboard) for €99 and have access to over 825,000 titles from the newly launched Kindle store. The first French-language readers from Amazon will start shipping out on October 14th and, if you need some more details, you'll find the full PR after the break.
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Ad-supported Kindle 4 has built-in $30 "upgrade", gets rid of embedded special offers
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Was it too cheap? Well, here's some great news for fourth-generation Kindle users already tiring of its embedded ads looking cheap alongside their Vertu phones. You can now pay Amazon the requisite fee and unsubscribe from built-in advertising and offers. Visit the Manage your Kindle webpage and you can edit your subscriptions for the newest entry-level e-reader. There seems to be no option, however, to do the reverse just yet. Would Amazon hand over $30 to push those special offers into our currently ad-free Kindle?
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Kindle Fire pre-orders reach 95,000 units on day one, market research firm says
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Amazon reportedly sold 95,000 Kindle Fire tablets during the device’s first day of pre-sales availability alone. According to estimates from market research and intelligence firm eDataSource, pre-order sales of Amazon’s upcoming premier tablet may be on an astounding pace. To put the company’s estimated day-one sales in perspective, RIM sold just 200,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets into sales channels during the entirety of its second fiscal quarter. How did eDataSource arrive at the 95,000 figure? ”eDataSource’s panel of 800,000 inboxes allows us to gain insight into eCommerce sales” eDataSource CEO Carter Nicholas said. “Within hours we can get a read on hot product launches based on sales...
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Kindle Fire unveiling event makes you wonder whether Bezos is the new Steve Jobs
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire set the 7-inch tablet segment ablaze when it was announced two days ago as it matches their hardware for the most part, yet outdoes them in the price game by being more than twice cheaper than the majority of 7 inchers selling at around $500. The Kindle Fire sells for $200, but it’s the little details that count and for Amazon, it’s the fact that this is an end-to-end device that really makes it outstanding.
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Amazon Reportedly Interested in Buying Palm
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Amazon reportedly has Palm in its sights and is super close to pulling the trigger on a deal that could benefit both it and Hewlett Packard. Let's face it, HP screwed the pooch with its Palm acquisition with its 180 on webOS hardware, and even though the company claims it's committed to focusing on webOS software, that was never the sole intention. It's not surprising HP is shopping Palm, but will Amazon make a move?
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This Is the New Amazon Kindle Fire Color Tablet—and It's Only $199!
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This is incredible. The new Amazon Kindle Fire will cost only $199! This is a killer price for a color tablet. Even while it doesn't match the iPad's features, there's going to be some fierce competition this year.
Check out our up close and personal video to see it in action and keep reading for all the details.
The right (basic) stuff
As the rumors pointed out, Amazon's color tablet has a 7-inch 16-million color display. Like the iPad, it's an IPS panel, which means it has a wide viewing angle and great color saturation. The resolution is pretty dense: 169 pixels per inch. It's not comparable to the 326 pixels per inch of the small iPhone 4's display, but it's better than the iPad's 132 pi...
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Amazon to reveal 'Kindle Fire' Android tablet on Wednesday
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Amazon will unveil its Android-powered “Kindle Fire” tablet on Wednesday during a press event in New York City. The Kindle Fire will begin to ship during the second week of November and, with a similar-sized 7-inch screen, the device looks very much like the BlackBerry PlayBook according to reports. GDGT explained that the device was built by Quanta, the same manufacturer that built the PlayBook, and the firm played a big role in designing each of the slates. While recent leaks have created a lot of buzz about the potential tablet, GDGT suggested the tablet might not be that exciting. Reportedly the Kindle Fire is “pretty poor” and was rushed out the door so that Amazon had a product on stor...
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Amazon may unveil first tablet on September 28
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Amazon has just sent out invitations for a press event taking place next Wednesday, September 28, in New York City. Since most such occasions are called for to unveil a major product launch, we can’t help but assume that this event is for the company’s first and long-rumored Android-based tablet dubbed the Amazon Kindle Tablet.
The much anticipated tablet has long been speculated to be an iPad-killer thanks to Amazon’s established ecosystem of services, price competitiveness, and strong distribution channel. However, the latest reports from analysts and industry folks who have been privileged with a limited preview of the slate say that it’s a 7-incher that’s more of a Barnes & Noble NOOK Co...
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Amazon announces Kindle eBooks are now available at 11,000 Public Libraries
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That Amazon will offer Kindle ebooks for rent has been rumored before. That they actually offer eBooks through public libraries is unexpected. Kindle and Kindle app customers can now borrow Kindle books from more than 11,000 local libraries in the United States.
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Amazon offers $50 gift card with all Verizon phones
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Amazon’s wireless division announced on Friday that it will provide a $50 gift card with the purchase of any Verizon Wireless device between Friday and Monday, September 26th. The card can be used anywhere on Amazon.com or can be used for wireless accessories on the AmazonWireless website. The HTC ThunderBolt 4G is currently priced at just $0.01, which means you’re basically getting paid $49.99 to pick one up. AmazonWireless is also selling new devices such as the Motorola DROID BIONIC, one of Verizon Wireless’ newest LTE phones, and other 4G devices such as the Samsung SCH-LC11 4G Mobile Hotspot and Novatel MiFi 2200 Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspot.
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Can the New Amazon Tablet Succeed?
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It's interesting that the Kindle (as opposed to the upcoming Amazon Kindle Tablet) was written off when the Apple iPad arrived, but curiously, sales rose. While the iPad is great for thumbing through magazines, the Kindle has it beat at book reading.
The Kindle has a MEMS display, which produces an image that sticks without power and supports a platform that parallels the readability of actual books. There's no glare. The page does not refresh continually. Also, the "digital ink" display uses very little juice to operate.
Amazon learned two things when the iPad came out. First, it found out that people would still buy the Kindle in an iPad world. Second, it discovered that it could sell a lo...
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Amazon rewarding Android developers with $50 towards AWS
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Looks like Amazon is really ramping up its Android efforts in preparation for a tablet launch by offering a new incentive to developers. Starting today, the online retailer will be giving a $50 voucher for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Android developers who submit an app to the Amazon Appstore.
Amazon’s AWS offers a variety of cloud-computing services and forms the backbone of a large portion of online businesses. For developers, the AWS offers access to a cloud solution and other services for building and deploying apps, including for social, gaming, media, and business. To be eligible, developers will have to register to be a member of the Amazon Appstore for Android.
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