Yesterday we read the news from Citi Group’s Taipei-based Kevin Chang, who is Citi’s hardware research analyst said Amazon was in making of smartphone made jointly by Foxconn Technologies and it would be released during the holiday period of 2012, a year from now. Now Forbes.com states "Channel checks suggest the Amazon smartphone will have … Read more
The Kindle Fire has been the center of attention for the past several weeks as there may be a true contender to the iPad dominance. Priced right at $200, the slightly underpowered scaled down Android tablet seemed to have a good strategy to set it apart from other lack luster Android tablets. The Kindle Fire … Read more
That headline might have been too much? Nah, it works just fine. Anyway, Belkin is ready to go with six new cases for the new series of Kindles that just came out. I’m sure these aren’t the first we’ll see either, with new products comes new accessories.. Grip Sleeve (F8N726 – Kindle and Kindle Touch; … Read more
So last week Amazon announced their new Kindle line of products which included the anticipated Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is a light tablet that makes use of a touch screen, Silk Browser, Amazon unique user interface, Amazon Cloud Services, and a ton of media content including movies, games, and books. Amazon’s announcement got a … Read more
95,000 Kindles sold on first day. Not bad for one day huh? This info is from a company called eDataSource that is a ‘provider of online competitive intelligence’ (whatever that means exactly, I’m not sure). By analyzing purchase receipts received by email, eDataSource is able to estimate the daily orders places at major ecommerce sites … Read more
Damnit I was wrong and Simmons apparently was doing fine without those meds. Here’s the deal, according to Tech Crunch (who was hands on with it) the Amazon Kindle is…drum roll please…essentially a Nook Color. It’s a 7” color touch screen running Android that’s said to look just like a Playbook. It’s multitouch but possibly … Read more
This isn’t a bad deal at all, if you were ever thinking about getting a Kindle now would be the time I think. You can get the 3G enabled Kindle starting Sunday for only $139 at AT&T stores across the nation. Fall semester is back and students everywhere are looking for ways to save … Read more
Ads are all the rage (thanks Google) and the latest device to get ads is the Kindle. Honestly, I didn’t see that coming since it doesn’t strike me as the right model but they’re being cautious in how the ads are displayed. Essentially the ads will only come at two times – as full screen … Read more
Even though the App is freely available from Amazon, Verizon has announced today that it will include Amazon’s Kindle Reading Software on the Motorola Droid 2, Droid x, and the Samsung Fascinate. There is no doubt that these devices are some of the best suited by Verizon to let the user enjoy their Smartphone reading … Read more
Kindle has to appeal to its strengths if it wants to stay relevant in a world where the iPad and other multipurpose devices are competing so it’s interesting to see them go after the iPad directly here as failing to be a good e-reader and specifically at failing in bright light. I think it’s a … Read more