Amazon UK offering Kindle Fire for £99 for Black Friday The Kindle Fire has always been a great entry level tablet, if not the best. However, Amazon has provided you with another reason to go for it—a £30 price rebate from the Amazon UK site, making the total £99. The deal is being offered as part of its Black Friday sales promotions, in spite of the fact that the event has … [Read more...] about Top Tablet News – November 24th, 2012
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iPad 3, iPad Mini, and Kindle Fire HD Under a Microscope
Here are three shots at 10X magnification of my iPad 3, iPad Mini, and Kindle Fire HD. Â Ignore the blue background, as it's an artifact of the processing software. All three shots were taken with the font set at the same size. I'm using a very old Intel Play USB microscope, which is quite obsolete now. (I have a new microscope on order and will re-do these when it comes in, but … [Read more...] about iPad 3, iPad Mini, and Kindle Fire HD Under a Microscope
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Now Available
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is the companies first large screen tablet and is available to ship starting toady. The 4G/LTE version will be available in coming weeks and customers will be able to get 250 MB of Data every month for a one time fee of $49.99. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is basically going head to head with the Nook HD+ and the Apple iPad this holiday season. It … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Now Available
Apple iPad Mini and Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Comparison
Welcome to another beloved installment of the Good e-Reader Video Comparison Series! Today we check out two tablets that are heavily competing against each other. The Apple iPad Mini and the Kindle Fire HD 7 are poised to vie for your attention on the road leading to the holiday season. The iPad Mini features a 7.9 inch screen, while the Kindle Fire HD has the traditional 7 … [Read more...] about Apple iPad Mini and Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Comparison
Amazon Game Studios Launches Air Patriots, Its First Mobile Game for iOS and Android
Amazon followed up its Living Classics with Air Patriots, its first ever gaming title for mobile devices. The game will be compatible with all of the latest tablet devices running Android or iOS, including the entire Kindle Fire range. Unfortunately, the Nexus 7 seems to have been left out of all the fun. As for the Air Patriots game, Amazon is describing it as a kind of … [Read more...] about Amazon Game Studios Launches Air Patriots, Its First Mobile Game for iOS and Android
Top Tablet PC News — October 23, 2012
Dell Windows 8 Tablet The new Dell tablets running Windows 8 and Windows RT are now up for pre-order. The Dell XPS 10 running Windows RT and based on Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chip has a starting price of $499.99. What you get at that price is a 10.1 inch device with 1366 x 768 pixel density, 32 GB of storage, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. The tablet will also come pre-loaded with … [Read more...] about Top Tablet PC News — October 23, 2012
Periodical Reading on Tablets on the Rise, Kindle Fire in the Lead
comScore, a global leader in measuring statistics on digital content consumption, released its findingson digital magazine and newspaper use by consumers for the previous period. While the overall numbers of subscribers who read throughout a one-month period on their tablets wasn’t surprising—and in fact, was a very encouraging indicator of consumer choice—there were some … [Read more...] about Periodical Reading on Tablets on the Rise, Kindle Fire in the Lead
Top Tablet PC News – October 18th 2012
Among the top tablet news of the day, the one that has been attracting a lot of attention is a Nexus 7 variant that would cost a measly $99. This is a new low for tablet costs after Amazon first popularized the $199 price tag with the first gen Kindle Fire. While Amazon bettered that with a $149 price tag on the new refurbished Kindle Fire, Google’s attempt will be a new … [Read more...] about Top Tablet PC News – October 18th 2012
Tablet PC News Roundup
The biggest tablet news right now is the Surface tablet's pricing. It starts at a decent $499, which may be disappointing for those who perhaps were hoping for the device to be priced at $199. For $499, what you get is the basic 32 GB version of Surface RT, sans the keypad, while the tablet and keypad combo has been priced $599. The top of the line version with 64 GB storage … [Read more...] about Tablet PC News Roundup
Amazon Continues with Its No Profit Policy with Sales of the Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite
It has been a tried and tested strategy at Amazon to sell the hardware at cost (or even less) and then make money through the content that users buy from the expansive ecosystem. It's not surprising the company is keeping the same strategy for its latest devices, the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD. "We want to make money when people use our devices, not when people … [Read more...] about Amazon Continues with Its No Profit Policy with Sales of the Kindle Fire HD and Paperwhite