Amazon rumored to launch 10.1-inch Kindle Fire in Q3 2012

May 18, 2012

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You can say what you want about the Kindle Fire, but it's clear that Amazon made the right decisions when it came to pricing and marketing. Their Kindle Fire e-reader tablet is now one of the most successful and popular tablets around, thanks to it's uber competitive pricing against Apple's iPad and other comparable Android offerings.

Word on the street is that Amazon is now planning to directly take on Apple's iPad line of tablets by presenting a 10.1-inch Kindle Fire in Q3 of this year, while simultaneously canning plans for their suspected 8.9-inch model. If this rumor pans out, then we can only assume that the internals of this big brother Kindle should be fairly strong to compete with the fruits of Apple's labor. Amazon just recently announced plans to continue offering tablets at low cost in exchange for advertisements in their devices, so perhaps we will see this 10.1-inch super reader at a great price point as well. Only time will tell what Amazon has in store for us in the coming months.

source: digitimes

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Yet another one of Krypton’s last son’s, Tony grew up in a small town not too far from Dallas, Texas. Being a lover of all things games, a good part of his childhood was spent mastering Mortal Kombat techniques and perfecting Fatalities, yet he always made time for artistic endeavors such as singing, acting and playing in rock bands. Tony graduated from the University of North Texas in Music Performance for Double Bass. He freelanced in the DFW area and taught privately for several years. During this time, he discovered the benefits a smartphone could make in his line of work, being able to respond to gig offers in a timely manner and navigate to performances with GPS, all while on the go. He did months of research, finally deciding on the Android OS. And the reason you ask? Emulators. The fact that he now had a phone, GPS system, instant messenger, mp3 player, camera and 4 different videogame consoles with 100+ games, all in a single device, was mind blowing. Tony’s new love for Android blossomed rather quickly into an obsession that landed him a job with Sprint. He now gets to play with all kinds of phones, fix them and write about them for Talk Android.