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Amazon Finally Releases OTA Kindle Fire Update To Address Performance And Touchscreen Issues
Great news, Kindle Fire owners. Amazon just announced the long overdue Kindle Fire update that’s said to resolve many of the issues with the budget tablet. Most of the common complaints are addressed: owners can now select and remove items from the carousel, the WiFi system is more robust and supports passwords, but most importantly, update 6.2.1 reportledly improves overall performance and the touchscreen response.More » -
Pulp Friction: The Kindle Debate
My article in The New York Times on Monday citing high levels of dissatisfaction with Amazon’s new tablet generated a torrential response, much of it from people who said they loved their Kindle Fires. The wilder commentators suggested that the whole article somehow came from Apple, which, in their view, was trying to get people to hock grandma’s jewels to buy $500 iPads. None of those conspiracy theorists explained why so many original users of the Fire put mixed to negative reviews on Amazon’s own site.More » -
Kindle Fire: good reviews, but some complaints
While many early users are happy with their Kindle Fire experience, some have complained about glitches in the Amazon tablet, and the bookselling giant has already promised an over-the-air update to the software to address some of the problems.. . -
Amazon takes a slight loss on each Kindle Fire, study says
A look at the build of materials and manufacturing costs concluded that Amazon spends $201.70 on each Kindle Fire, only slightly above its $199 retail price, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. The cost is lower than the nearly $210 estimate the firm initially placed on the device. Amazon was able to shave off a few dollars by using a few unknown suppliers and employing less memory for the Kindle Fire. The company's strategy of selling the device at a loss--even a slight one--follows the game plan it uses for all of its Kindle products: sell at a cheaper price to spur adoption, and make it up through the sale of goods and services on that device.More » -
Why the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are Wi-Fi-only
The low-cost computer tablets coming next week from Amazon and Barnes & Noble connect only over Wi-Fi networks, which reduces costs and also cuts the nation's 3G/4G cellular carriers out of the equation. Other tablets, such as the iPad 2 and several Galaxy Tab versions, however, connect to 3G/4G cellular as well as Wi-Fi, but also have Wi-Fi-only models. So what's behind the decision to support Wi-Fi-only in Amazon's $199 Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's $249 Nook Tablet? Part of the answer stems from the way Amazon and Barnes & Noble see their tablets being used. Both see their devices primarily for consuming massive amounts of video, games, e-books and other media, which is best served over a low-cost Wi-Fi connection.. -
Leaked Sales Screenshots: Amazon’s Kindle Fire Already Burning Up?
Now that we've got this iPhone-not-5 business out of the way, eyeballs are back on Amazon's Kindle Fire over a leaked sales report. Here's the report's short version: People are preordering the thing like mad. Take with a pinch or two of sodium—the report comes from a tech blog dubbed Cult of Android, after all—but word is would-be Kindle Fire owners are snatching up Amazon's Android-based tablet to the tune of 2,000 units an hour on average, which adds up to slightly less than 50,000 a day. . -
Kindle Fire an iPad killer? Yes. It’s the price, stupid
The company's new Kindle Fire tablet, a 7-inch touch-screen device powered by Amazon's content ecosystem and priced at just $199, may be an orange to Apple's iPad apple, but I'd argue that it's an iPad killer all the same. On paper, the Kindle Fire has half the features of the iPad. In fact, it's almost literally half the features--here's a handy comparison chart so you can see for yourself. There's no camera, front or rear; the 8GB of onboard storage is half the amount of the base-model iPad; the Fire has no cellular options, no built-in GPS, and no Bluetooth, as the iPad does. The software options compared to the iPad are minimal, and the app library for Android still isn't nearly as robust as the iOS app library. All true facts. Doesn't matter. There may be more strikes against the Kindle Fire, too: Amazon hasn't explicitly denied that it will block access to competing content-delivery apps like Hulu, Netflix, or any upstart e-bookstores that might want to be on the Fire, but I'd be surprised if you ever find them there. Amazon has taken a closed, proprietary approach with the Kindle line, and I think it's more than a safe bet to say that this won't be the "open" Android tablet experience you've been hearing about with the Galaxy Tabs or the Xooms of the world. Not even close, in fact.More » -
Amazon Takes on Apple iPad With Kindle Fire Tablet
The tablet wars are finally heating up! Putting to rest the endless speculation, Amazon on Wednesday officially introduced not one, not two, but four new Kindle devices. The company aims to lock up the e-reader market with an entry-level $79 Kindle, and to do what countless tech companies have failed at: building a color tablet device at a reasonable price that can compete with Apple's wildly successful iPad. The Kindle Fire is that gadget..
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