Amazon Kindle Fire

Amazon finally were really released its first tablet device called Kindle Fire. Tablet with a 7-inch screen will be priced at 199 U.S. dollars only.
Kindle Fire using the latest version of the Android operating system that has been modified and equipped with dual core processors. In addition to standard applications are supported through the Android Market, Amazon uses the tablet to display its flagship services..

For example, Amazon Prime to watch movies online subscription costs 79 U.S. dollars per year. Kindle Through Fire, listening to music can also be done easily by accessing the Amazon store. Amazon already took Fox to provide content to the front and middle of exploring cooperation with Netflix and Pandora.
Memory capacity that is included is only 8 GB. However, Amazon provides online data storage service free of charge to the user to collect movies, books, and music.
This device is not equipped with a camera. The first models will be sold also only supports access via WiFi wireless connections. Kindle Fire will be available to consumers beginning November 15.
In addition to Fire Kindle, Amazon is also using the momentum this time to launch three new Kindle models. Each using black and white screen from E-ink as previously Kindle.
First, the Kindle Touch 3G which uses a touch screen with infrared sensors and can access 3G sold 149 dollars. Second, a similar model but without 3G access is sold for 99 U.S. dollars.

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Kindle Iriver Story HD Google Vs Kindle Wifi Amazon

After taking on Facebook with the introduction of Google+ last week, Google is giving Amazon a run for its money this week by launching its own e-reader, the iriver Story HD. The device will retail in Target stores and online starting July 17 for $139.99, which puts it in direct competition with the Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi.

Gallery: iriver Story HD vs. Kindle Wi-Fi
First introduced at CES 2011 and pegged for a May arrival, the Story HD has an impressive 6″ XGA (1024X768) e-ink display with “63% more pixels and faster page turns than the competition,” according to iriver’s January press release. It sports a Freescale Cortex A8 CPU, with 2GB of onboard storage, a SDHC card slot and built-in Wi-Fi.


Like Amazon’s Kindle, the Story HD features a QWERTY keyboard but offers an up/down button for page-turning, rather than the more common left/right button. Judging from Engadget’s early demo of the e-reader, it looks to be the same slim size as the Kindle Wi-Fi, but with a two-tone design that extends to the back cover. iriver claims the Story HD will last 3-weeks without a charge but did not specify how it arrived at this number. My guess is the Wi-Fi must be turned off with the lowest possible screen setting to achieve this duration.

iriver’s Story HD is designed for Google’s e-Books platform, with direct access to over three million free (in public domain) and for-purchase Google e-Books (including over 250 independent bookstores) via Wi-Fi. Because Google’s special sauce is that is content is in the cloud, users can access most e-books online without having to download a copy locally (except copyright-protected works). Plus, they will have the added benefit of being able to continue reading the same cloud-based e-book from desktop to phone to e-reader, without having to move the same file between multiple devices. Of course, the Story HD is not absolutely tied to the Google cloud: it also supports Adobe EPUB and PDFs with DRM, which means users can also enjoy public library e-Books as well as paid content, offline.

Google is not limiting its customers to only those who purchase an iriver Story HD; it is also making its e-books available to other platforms (PCs, iOS and Android phones and tablets, and other e-readers like the Nook and Sony Reader), and more g-Readers are to come according to today’s announcement. But is Google too late to the game to compete with Amazon or even Barnes & Noble’s e-collection and established partnerships with publishers?

source: zdnet.com
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