Up Coming BA - new Amazon Kindle & Kindle Fire tablet

Svetti Arss

Amazon announced some new kindles today but what really caught me eye was a new tablet kindle running android for an amazing for $199. These devices are not available yet but you can pre-register. Don’t know if you will be able to purchase them from amazon.com. The .co.uk website only mentions the new kindle but not the wildfire.

Details are on the front page of the .com & .co.uk sites..

celj

All boardsies that didn't get a HP Touchpad should email them asking for a discount on this.
FNAC gave us €100 voucher for messing us around,Amazon should do us a favour now!
I'm going to email them now!


EDIT:They are only selling the Fire tablet in the states for now.

Svetti Arss

If I remember rightly thats what happened with the last kindle - released stateside first and UK a few weeks (Or Months) after.

indiewindy

We can only buy the kindle from their U.S site:( so hopefully the kindle fire will be available to us from U.K site whenever it goes on sale

Svetti Arss

Not correct. I had my kindle delivered to a relative in the UK and forwarded on. My registered address with amazon.co.uk is and always has been in Ireland.

Keith186

I looked this up a few weeks ago when the specs came out.

I don't remember the website but I do remember being fairly underwhelmed by the specs compared to fully fledged android tablets.

okidoki987

It's a good price $199 (€150 approx).

jayteecork

That'll be €200 at least here.

Still good though, the compuB store in Cork sells 64GB ipad2 for €799! lol.

emo72

only 512 ram and 8 gig storage with NO sd card slot and no camera and only running 2.1 android. Honestly its a little underwhelming. But if 199 dollars translates into 150 euro and we can root it and update it, then, maybe it will be value

mayordenis

jayteecork wrote: »

That'll be €200 at least here.

Still good though, the compuB store in Cork sells 64GB ipad2 for €799! lol.

that's 8 times the storage at only 4 times the price, total bargain....

unklerosco

emo72 wrote: »

only 512 ram and 8 gig storage with NO sd card slot and no camera and only running 2.1 android. Honestly its a little underwhelming. But if 199 dollars translates into 150 euro and we can root it and update it, then, maybe it will be value

It seems to be designed purely for streaming data. Near enough all the data, movies, music etc, are streamed to it. The 8gb is for games, books etc which would be plenty... Nice device to have around the house, gonna get one for the missus.

_Whimsical_

Anyone know if it will play flash?

Or if it's going to be locked down to amazon proprietary formats as the Kindle is with it's ebooks?

paddyp

Keith186 wrote: »

I looked this up a few weeks ago when the specs came out.

I don't remember the website but I do remember being fairly underwhelmed by the specs compared to fully fledged android tablets.

the good:
ti IMAP 4 dual core system, 512mb of ram, gorilla glass multi-touch, IPs screen 1024x600, silk browser could be fab or a flop, those are good specs for the price

the bad:
8gb storage, no camera, no sdcard

Svetti Arss

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Anyone know if it will play flash?

Or if it's going to be locked down to amazon proprietary formats as the Kindle is with it's ebooks?

The Kindle is not locked down you can view pdf and mobi ebooks on it.

ted1

No 3g version yet. It's also a much smaller screen that the iPad. With the lack of amazon services available here such as prime it'll be used at severly limited capacity. By prime I mean the full service such as movie rentals

Gadge

Feck sake I only bought a Kindle for myself & my aunt lately, I hadn't heard of these.

Onikage

Hardly as good as a 32GB TouchPad with kindle app though?

dvpower

How is this a bargain alert?

paddyp

Gadge wrote: »

Feck sake I only bought a Kindle for myself & my aunt lately, I hadn't heard of these.

I wouldn't worry tablets make a poor book reader, so if you bought it for reading books then you bought the right product, you won't be charging it every 7 hours, the e-ink will be a LOT easier on your eyes and you'll be able to finish a book without people 'just' checking their email, playing angry birds or popping onto bargain alerts for 'a minute'.

Doodah7

dvpower wrote: »

How is this a bargain alert?

Agreed, where is the bargain alert in this thread??

rivalius13

Kindle is €120, want to see how much the Touch is, awfully tempted.

Svetti Arss

tallpaul wrote: »

Agreed, where is the bargain alert in this thread??

Read the title.

paddydriver

Gadge wrote: »

Feck sake I only bought a Kindle for myself & my aunt lately, I hadn't heard of these.

They are still current and still a good device IMHO. They have now introduced the new Touch one below it but spec's not as high for storage and battery etc... but does have touch screen and is lighter:o

Gadge

Good points guys, thanks.

Plus I prefer a real keyboard anyway.

the groutch

very disappointed, thought it was going to be a proper tablet, not just a Kindle with an outdated version of Android thrown in

neacy69

Onikage wrote: »

Hardly as good as a 32GB TouchPad with kindle app though?

no TP is much better but tis awful hard to get your hands on a touchpad these days

Dades

Gadge wrote: »

Good points guys, thanks.

Plus I prefer a real keyboard anyway.

Also the "Touch" has done away with the forward/back buttons.

I think you have to touch the screen to change page. :pac:

MADNESS.

Ste-

Dades wrote: »

Also the "Touch" has done away with the forward/back buttons.

I think you have to touch the screen to change page. :pac:

MADNESS.

On most tablets and reader apps you can use the volume keys (most tablets have those at least) to change pages.

Zab

I can't tell for sure but I don't see volume controls in the pictures and I'm not sure if you can use them to change the page on a kindle anyway. I was wondering if you were going to have to touch the screen to change the pages when I first saw the thing. Seems odd but I'd have to try it I guess. The buttons they have on the side these days are so small though that they could have just included them. I will say that I often find myself holding the kindle along its top where there aren't any buttons so it could be handy in that regard.

MagicMarker

When will the Kindle Touch be released? And will it be much of an improvement on the latest model?

paddyp

Looks like the amazon silk is just a datamining excercise to at best target you with crap at worst its going to intercept even your https traffic. Stay well clear ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/29/amazon_silk_looks_phormulaic/