The Rainforest Tablet

Cosimo · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:18

The Kindle Fire stuff:

http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-...pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1321408942&pf_rd_i=507846

Glaucus · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:21

Now that looks very interesting, where are the movies/tv stuff from? Is amazon about to start a new service up?

Any flash?

Edit - they already have digital movie system on the us store. Still riddled with DRM, why haven't they learnt from the music industry.

kidkhaos · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:24

so we only get the cheapo version of the new kindle???

Montala · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:25

kidkhaos said:
so we only get the cheapo version of the new kindle???

... and not even one with a colour screen... boo!

bulb66 · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:26

Could be due to the lack on EU App store?

kidkhaos · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:30

we should at least got the touch kindles if that was the case.

kona786 · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:37

Nice

andy85 · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:40

Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital Services. U.S. only.

So even if they ever make it available for the UK, the price would be 209 GBP? Pass.

Glaucus · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:42

andy85 said:
Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital Services. U.S. only.

Not surpring it's centred around their digital media service which we don't have. Must be issues with licensing with the film companies. If or when we get those services they'll release it here.

kona786 · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:42

andy85 said:
Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital Services. U.S. only.

the fire?

I'm confident it will be US first then UK a bit later.

[timko] · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:42

So at the moment, we only get the no frills base model for now. This is how it compares to the outgoing generation...

Screen size is the same, storage capacity is half as big and battery life also takes a hit.

Cosimo · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:43

First impressions and video coming soon:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/amazon-kindle-fire-impressions/

kidkhaos · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:48

anyone else thinks that they should have kept the new kindles black?

dasyad · 28 Sep 2011 at 16:59

Just noticed, no audio on the new one as well

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:17

Montala said:
Sorry, what I meant was that it probably won't be available to purchase here in the UK on that date... at whatever price!

Edit: Their UK website already has the basic 6" model available for pre order at £89 !!! (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0051QVF7A?country=GB) So much for a straight conversion then!

They say it will be released on 12th October.

Look at their US web-page.

The $79 one is ad-supported and the non ad-supported one is $109. With 20% VAT the price would be around £84. So we are paying £6 more.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:20

The Kindle Fire seems to have an OMAP4 SOC:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/09/amazon-to-unveil-199-70inch-kindle-fire-tablet.ars

The 7" panel is IPS and is probably similar to the one found in the Nook Color.

The Kindle Fire also looks like it is based on the RIM PlayBook,or at least they are both based on a common design. It would also indicate it has an SGX540 GPU.

I would suspect it will be around £150 to £160 in the UK.

kona786 · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:35

Other than these aberrations, the Kindle Fire absolutely supplies the spec goods. It uses a 7in 1024x600 pixel IPS display fronted by strong, scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass, is powered by a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP processor (MHz TBC) and weighs around 410g. That's significantly heavier than the 250g Kindle, but much lighter than the 600g Apple iPad 2.The battery life is rated at eight hours.

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amazon-kindle-fire-unveiled-with-full-specs

Steve_bullockuk · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:36

So no Kindle Fire in the UK. Will it even work if you import it seen as though the Amazon Prime service primarily runs from the US?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:47

Steve_bullockuk said:
So no Kindle Fire in the UK. Will it even work if you import it seen as though the Amazon Prime service primarily runs from the US?

TBH,it could be just launching in the US first.

Steve_bullockuk · 28 Sep 2011 at 17:50

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
TBH,it could be just launching in the US first.

It is.....see further up the thread.

They have announced the US launch but no details of UK.