http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Color-M...0704738&sr=8-1

Thinking of having a few of these under the tree for presents. The price is right and all my gf or mom will use them for is email, web browsing, books, words with freinds, facebook and angry birds So I m thinking this is a no brainer for christmas.

Kind of wish it had a draid operating system though but it is what it is, and what that is is $199.00

I feel like all these tablets are going to go the way of the PDA etc

Like my girlfriend wants an iPad even tho we have iPhones which is basically an iPad mini...she insists on getting one even though they're going to do basically the same thing only bigger

 

Originally Posted by tamayo85

I feel like all these tablets are going to go the way of the PDA etc

Like my girlfriend wants an iPad even tho we have iPhones which is basically an iPad mini...she insists on getting one even though they're going to do basically the same thing only bigger

I wanted an ipad until i got my iphone, now that seems way too expensive just to have a bigger screen

I wanted to get one too but says only for US customers?

And PDA's haven't gone anywhere, they're just more robust now and called smartphones.

 

Originally Posted by threeven

Its a highly modified highly customized version of android. There won't be any of the basic google apps like market or maps or anything like that but amazon has their own equivalents for those. The apps are the same apps currently on the amazon app store for android. I'm slightly concerned about compatibility going forward though since its based on an older version of android and the android API changes fairly often so some future android apps might not work on it.

Unless you have a Nexus device this has been and continues to be a problem with fragmentation.

 

Originally Posted by acp

Unless you have a Nexus device this has been and continues to be a problem with fragmentation.

Definitely but I think the potential for it is particularly bad for these devices since it is such a highly modified version of android. Manufacturers and carriers have been really slow about pushing updates to android devices but its likely that it won't be possible at all for amazon to upgrade the underlying android components on the fire. Maybe they will though who knows. Amazon is a fantastic company run by a mad genius in Jeff Bezos, I doubt they would launch this product if they didn't have some kind of answers to these problems.

 

Originally Posted by threeven

Definitely but I think the potential for it is particularly bad for these devices since it is such a highly modified version of android. Manufacturers and carriers have been really slow about pushing updates to android devices but its likely that it won't be possible at all for amazon to upgrade the underlying android components on the fire. Maybe they will though who knows. Amazon is a fantastic company run by a mad genius in Jeff Bezos, I doubt they would launch this product if they didn't have some kind of answers to these problems.

Yah I sincerely wouldn't worry about Amazon, just look at their Silk browser for example, they are taking things into their own hands. Manufacturers release updates all the time, granted they aren't necessarily the next Android build my guess is Amazon will be on top of problems with the OS and their interface. This is going to be the first tablet that competes with the iPad in sales.

Looks like

-same processor
-same screen size (vividview for Nook, could be a winner)
-Nook 1gb ram vs Fire 512mb ram (this always looks good on paper, but without real use it's hard to say who the winner is, iPad 2 only had 512mb ram and is ridiculously fast)
-Nook 16gb internal storage vs. Fire 8gb (at first I would say Noom wins, but Amazon has unlimited Cloud storage and as long as that content is easily accessible, which should be the case I think this is also TBD after the tablets are released)

As of right now I don't see a winner, especially with Amazon's Silk browser if it is as fast as rumored this could be tipping point in comparisons.

 

Originally Posted by acp

Looks like

-same processor
-same screen size (vividview for Nook, could be a winner)
-Nook 1gb ram vs Fire 512mb ram (this always looks good on paper, but without real use it's hard to say who the winner is, iPad 2 only had 512mb ram and is ridiculously fast)
-Nook 16gb internal storage vs. Fire 8gb (at first I would say Noom wins, but Amazon has unlimited Cloud storage and as long as that content is easily accessible, which should be the case I think this is also TBD after the tablets are released)

As of right now I don't see a winner, especially with Amazon's Silk browser if it is as fast as rumored this could be tipping point in comparisons.

25% higher price makes comparison easy Fire> Nook

With the Kindle Fire, you are definitely getting a good value. I know nothing about it, but I know amazon is using it as a loss leader, selling it for nearly $10 less than it costs them to make:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/...lets/231700101

From what I am reading, the Nook Tablet by Barnes and Noble may be a better product, albeit $50 more than the Fire.

Got mine today and I really like it. It's nothing like an Android device, but I already found a Launcher that you can use that gives that wall of apps view; however, I prefer Amazon's launcher. It's very small I didn't look at any size specs before today, so I had no idea what to expect, it's basically half the screen size of my iPad. Bottom line is I would purchase this for $200 and not look back.