Amazon Kindle Fire Seeing 50k pre-Orders a Day

October 4, 2011 By Michael Kozlowski 1 Comment

The Amazon Kindle Fire is poised to be the most successful product offering from the company this holiday season. The main allure is the $199 price point that few people can match. CultofAndroid is reporting today that Amazon is seeing close to fifty thousand orders a day for it.

If Barnes and Noble wants to seriously compete against the Kindle Fire they need to made an announcement about their second generation Nook Color soon.

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Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and Verge.

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Kindle Fire doesn’t have microSD slot that Nook Color has thus it is
stuck with 6 GB usable internal storage unlike Nook Color that can get
up to 32 GB card in. Kindles are made to be almost like a “dumb
terminal” of the past to make sure you’re tied up to Amazon’s storage on
the web (for which you need Wi-Fi connection to get to.) and you can
only store content you get from Amazon there, not other files and they
can spy on your web activities through the new cloud-integrated web
browser. Also, VERY IMPORTANT – lack of microSD slot means that if you
decide to root your Kindle Fire, you’ll have to root the actual device
thus there will be no coming back. On Nook, you can make it boot from a
“rooted” microSD card and if you want to get back to the original Nook
you can just take out the card and reboot. Nook Color still has the best
on the market anti-glare coated screen that is better for
eading/viewing outside.

B&N is rumored to be coming out with Nook Color 2 shortly that will
sure to have Netflix app among others (you won’t find it on Kindle).
Nook Touch is still better designed than even the new Kindle Touch with
battery lasting two months with ONE hour reading a day with Wi-Fi off
thus it’s still twice as long as new Kindle’s two months with HALF and
hour a day with Wi-Fi off. It looks like Kindle didn’t get any battery
improvement in the new model, they only changed the test condition.
More, Kindle Touch still flashes black on each page turn while Nook
Touch reduces the flashing by 80%.