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Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Re: Kindle Fire - Full Color Kindle with 7" Multi-Touch Display, Wi-Fi

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Post by dvdhsu »

joshhart wrote: post #12

Darn, the Kindle DX is still $379. Everything else got a nice price drop. I've been waiting for a hardware/software update to the Kindle DX and a possible price drop for quite a while now, but I'm not sure I'll ever get it at this point.

The Kindle DX is a niche device. As of now, Amazon probably just wants to charge as much as they can, as long as it still sells.

With that said, I'm also interested in the DX. The only problem is that I can't justify that price when I can get a TouchPad for the same price (or less).

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Post by cincinnatus »

nfriedly wrote: post #59

> does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks. That struck me as a little odd at first, but after considering it for a minute, I think it's probably a smart move.

Quite, there is no situation where a muggle isn't about to get pwned that involves an ad-hoc network.

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Post by khafra »

josefresco wrote: post #26
runjake wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Funny tip: It was only last weekend I discovered than an iPad works with polarized sunglasses on, IF you use it in landscape mode. That was a major d'oh realization. I hope for Amazon's sake, the Fire works in sunlight.

Curiously, the iPhone 4 works in both modes with polarized glasses.

Weird. My iPhone 4 only works in portrait mode with polarized glasses, the glass turns opaque in landscape.

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Post by blinkingled »

Well at $199 with that kind of integrated experience there is little room for complaints! ($300 would be a different story.) Plus it supports Flash and most Android games/apps from Amazon app store.

If people put up a better email client on Amazon store for decent price it would be even better. For someone who already has Prime but no tablet - this is a no brainer.

Thinking of all this - I think this will eat into the iPad sales. There are going to be many people buying this instead of the iPad - price, weight, integration etc. Q4 iPad sales would be worth watching.

The new Kindles also seem to be blazing the new trail - high quality low price. $79 is just an awesome price and so is $99 for the touch Kindle. (Bezos took a jab at Apple in two ways - cabled sync/backup and companies that work hard to make customers pay more vs. companies that work hard to make customers pay less!)

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Post by viscanti »

kin wrote: post #43

This has such a competitive price point that I think it'll do relatively well. I know it can watch movies, play music, browse, etc., do all these tablet things, but I'd definitely like to see it A) execute on those things (especially the browser) and B) have the apps so I don't feel left out for owning a non-iOS device all the time. I'm hoping this gets a high enough market share that Android developers start porting…

The issue with the Android platform, and these new low cost devices perpetuate, is that Android users spend significantly less on apps. Android is getting good traction in the low end smart phone market, but those people just aren't buying apps. The Amazon product seems to be centered around Amazon's offerings, making it more of a media device than an app device. If having access to lots of high quality apps is important to you, iOS is the platform for you.

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Post by scottrudy »

bradleyland wrote: post #23
philbarr wrote: post #2

You'd think they'd mention which version of Android it uses.

Why wouldn't they mention the RAM it has? Why wouldn't they mention what wireless chipset it has? Why wouldn't they mention the amount of internal storage? I can answer all these questions, as well as the hundred other ones that geeks will ask: Because none of this matters to the millions of people who will buy them. To understand the difference between a company that "gets it" and your average geek who wonders why t…

I wonder if customers will care about the lack of privacy by default? http://bit.ly/oz2RZL
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