Kindle Fire-ipad 2&Nook Color biggest Killer on Christmas?
Amazon’s Kindle Fire will be released on November 15, is showing some powerful pre-release interest that appears to bypass that of the iPad back when we were waiting for it to arrive. The Kindle Fire brings something to the table that many others haven’t:
1.Amazon Kindle Fire Newsstand announced: 3-month free trial offered to tablet buyers
Amazon has announced a new source for magazines and newspapers that will be exclusive to the forthcoming Amazon Kindle Fire 7″ tablet. The new Amazon Kindle Fire Newsstand will provide Kindle Fire owners a virtual newsstand that features a selection of over 400 full-color magazines and newspapers.
As a special treat to all Amazon Kindle Fire tablet buyers Amazon will be offering a free 3-month trial subscription that offers up access to 17 Condé Nast magazines, including Vanity Fair, GQ, WIRED and Glamour. For access to all of the other magazines and newspapers offered inside the newsstand you get a free 14-day trial with a subscription. Amazon is requiring that anyone interested in the 3-month trial subscribe to the newsstand before March 1st, 2012.
2.Amazon will stop taking pre-orders and start openly selling 7&Prime
Kindle Fire on November 16th for $199 to U.S. customers only. The 7-inch tablet features a 1024×600 capacitive multi-touch IPS LCD, a customized UI over Android 2.3, a 1 GHz dual-core CPU, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage, unlimited cloud storage for Amazon purchased items (apps, music, books, magazines, videos), the Amazon Silk Browser , Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, USB 2.0, up to 8 hours of battery life, and the tablet weights 14.6 ounces .
3.Amazon has announced that Hulu Plus will be joining Netflix on the Kindle Fire
Hulu Plus offers access to recent and classic TV shows from ABC, Comedy Central, The CW, Fox, NBC, MTV, VH-1 and others, with a monthly subscription rate of $7.99.
As for ESPN ScoreCenter, that pulls in multiple game results and updates for a variety of leagues worldwide, including football, soccer, tennis, golf and more.
4.Apple’s iPad 2 may have a hard time fending off the Amazon Kindle Fire this holiday season
The 7-inch Kindle Fire is part of a new breed of iPad competitors that undercut Apple’s pricing by up to $300 and aim to offer a similar integrated and curated ecosystem of books, newspapers, magazines, movies, TV shows and apps.
5.Some one wondered A Kindle Fire Phone
Analysis: Why has no one built the iPhone of Android phones -- Something elegant, approachable, and uncluttered, with carefully bundled services?
Amazon is good at making things simple. Amazon has taste. Amazon has stores for movies, music, books, magazines, and apps, all of which are already hooked up to our credit cards and shipping addresses.
Most important, Amazon has already done a lot of the heavy lifting required to build a phone. It could simply repurpose much of the effort it’s poured into the Kindle Fire tablet, and then add phone-specific features.
