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The online giant Amazon is reportedly trying to decide whether selling some premium advertising packages for 600,000 dollars each is worth the bother. The money gained is likely to be used to reduce the initial price of the Kindle Fire to around 150 USD. That would be around 117 EUR for the European digital readers.... |
20 May 2012
23:08 GMT |
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Surprisingly, Amazon's tablet shipment share fell significantly during the first quarter of 2012, so the company lost its comfortable second spot on the Android slate market.
Earlier today, we reported on the general state of the worldwide tablet market and how the number of sold Android slates decreased, comp... |
4 May 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Fire receives a fresh firmware revision, in the shape of the 6.3.1 release. This new system software brings a lot of nifty improvements to the overall user experience and also sports generic performance enhancements. Sharing becomes easier with the new firmware: just highlight a passage directly... |
4 May 2012
02:58 GMT |
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There was one day, back in late March, when Amazon's refurbished Kindle Fire sold for $30 less than the normal product price, and the deal is back today.
Refurbished products are items that got returned to the vendor for some reason or other and have since been fixed.
Obviously, it doesn't make much sense... |
3 May 2012
08:52 GMT |
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If you own a Kindle Fire and haven't received the new system software over the air, you can simply download it from us and upgrade the gadget by yourself. Now, Kindle Fire receives firmware version 6.3, which brings better, enhanced sharing features, usable with other Kindle Fire owners and with Facebook and Tw... |
29 March 2012
10:27 GMT |
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We know that many people own a Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon, and for them we have a piece of good news: the retailer has completed its latest software update for the slate.
We'll get right into the thick of things and start listing the main benefits for those who want to get an overall idea of what they are ... |
29 March 2012
04:49 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has amassed a fair bit of fame, thanks to its unusually low price of $199 (155 Euro or so), but it needs to get a successor sometime. Apparently, the company is well underway in that regard, having placed orders for components that it will use in the making of a next-generation slat... |
23 March 2012
15:51 GMT |
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The rivalry between the amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet is one that the media has been talking about periodically, but only now has it sparked for real.The reason for this is the change to the on-board storage that the latter has been subjected to.Instead of 16 GB of on-board storage, Nook now h... |
20 February 2012
08:48 GMT |
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By the middle of this year, Amazon is expected to release a larger, 9-inch version of the original Kindle Fire tablet, as well as a refreshed 7-inch model, according to one analyst's forecast.
The introduction of the two tablets is expected to raise Amazon’s 2012 Kindle Fire sales from 12 million units to... |
10 February 2012
02:46 GMT |
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In the short time since it’s been out, Amazon’s Kindle Fire proved to be extremely popular among the Android hacking community, so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone to find out that MIUI 4 was ported to the 7-inch tablet.
If you were a fan of the previous iteration of MIUI, based on Andr... |
9 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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You can't fight the truth, and that is precisely the sort of saying that Amazon's latest commercial runs on, much to Apple's chagrin.
Apple did Samsung a favor by so ferociously going after the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, since the whole thing got turned into positive marketing for the device.
Now,... |
9 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire is already one of the cheapest Android tablets that one can buy, but those looking for an even better deal can now get Amazon’s slate for $20 less by buying a refurbished unit.
While this definitely isn’t that much of a discount, the good news is that Amazon still offers the usual 1-year ... |
4 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Android 4.0 has been running on the Kindle Fire for quite a while now, but lately the devs working on this port have made great progress with it.
While still under development, the port has now received a custom lock screen, which no longer has the camera option since the Kindle Fire doesn’t come with such an ... |
1 February 2012
15:21 GMT |
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Barnes & Noble seems to be in the midst of upgrading its product lineup with a new eReader device that will be released in the popular Nook line in order to help the outfit in its fight against Amazon. The new eReader will become the company’s fifth eReader released in the Nook range when it becomes available,... |
30 January 2012
17:21 GMT |
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The official Hotmail application for Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now available for download via retailer’s web store, offering fast and easy access to Microsoft’s service.
Microsoft has been focused on making Hotmail work great not only on Windows devices, but also on those that run under other platf... |
25 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet continues to be the retailer's best-selling product, but the post-holiday slow season doesn't seem to have spared it.
Since the Kindle Fire is one of the hottest products on the tablet market right now, market watchers are paying more attention to it than they do most ever... |
23 January 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Android 4.0 has been running on the Kindle Fire for quite a while now, but so far those users having the ICS port installed on the 7-inch tablet had to give up on one particularly important feature: audio.Fortunately for them, a new build of CyanogenMod 9 for the Kindle Fire was released a short while ago bringing wi... |
20 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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After being available for Apple devices for more than half a year, Kingston has announced that the Wi-Drive wireless external SSD can now also be used with the popular 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet thanks to a new app downloadable for free from the Amazon Appstore. Kingston's Wi-Drive enables users to share the cont... |
13 January 2012
05:15 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet will soon have to go ahead a new 7-inch challenger coming from Toshiba that will use the same form factor and entry-level price tag as these supped up eReaders.Pictured in all of its black and blue glory in a couple of images provided by Notebook Italia, the yet unnamed tablet is sligh... |
6 January 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Amazon's world domination plans are going well. Very well, in fact, the company boasts, it has sold a record number of Kindles this month, surprising no one, but the company is still not putting an actual number on sales, surprising no one.When it comes to digital content, Amazon's strategy is simple and it... |
29 December 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Amazon surely likes to brag with the success of its Kindle Fire 7-inhc tablet and earlier today it sent out yet another press release saying that its Kindle family has sold in millions of units during this Holiday season. As expected the most popular Kindle of the bunch was the Fire, as this has been the best sellin... |
29 December 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Miro 4.0.4, a multimedia platform that can be utilized to view, convert, transfer and even download videos, has been announced. Developed by Participatory Culture Foundation, Miro 4.0.4 only brings one update, and that is support for Kindle Fire, the new budget tablet from Amazon.The success of Amazon Kindle Fire mad... |
28 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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If you have been dying to get Android 4.0 working on your Kindle Fire, here’s your chance: a developer has now made public the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) port for Amazon’s 7-inch tablet.The port is still an early development version, but users report that it runs pretty nicely and more and more bugs are squ... |
27 December 2011
20:51 GMT |
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We're happy to announce the launch of a new firmware version for Amazon's latest gadget, the Kindle Fire. Users can upgrade to firmware 6.2.1 using a WiFi connection or a computer.
For those appeased more by the computer update, we have the 6.2.1 software update package. All they have to do is make sure t... |
22 December 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Amazon’s iOS app for reading Kindle books has been updated with a bunch of new abilities and features, including access to the huge catalog of magazines and newspapers that are available on the company’s competing tablet computer, the Kindle Fire.Version 2.9 of the Kindle iPad app brings “access to ... |
22 December 2011
09:41 GMT |
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Well, this was reasonably fast. Looks like the unfortunate tendency of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to bar users from the Android Market website has expired.
Or at least it will expire once the new update, 6.2.1, is installed.
We mentioned about a day and a half ago that, because of a hidden utility file called ... |
22 December 2011
04:00 GMT |
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While the changes introduced in the recent 6.2.1 software update for the Kindle Fire brought good news to many, there were still those who were disappointed by the fact that the firmware will break root on their system.Fortunately, a user on the XDA Developer forum came up with a solution for the latter category as i... |
21 December 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Earlier today Amazon started sending the 6.2.1 software update over the-air to Kindle Fire’s everywhere, but this isn’t all good news as some users have reported that this latest firmware version breaks root on their device.But this is just the tip of the iceberg for those of you with superuser access on ... |
20 December 2011
09:56 GMT |
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It appears that Amazon was particularly serious about the Kindle Fire being just a means to facilitate sales of its web content, as it has taken to forcing somewhat annoying redirects.
Amazon could be said to be restricting the amount of apps that owners of its Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet have access to.
Being a devi... |
20 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Amazon kept up to its promise and it recently unveiled the 6.2.1 software update for the Kindle Fire which is supposed to fix some of the issues reported by users and improve the tablet’s performance.After the update is done, users should be able to remove books, apps or other content from the carousel of recen... |
20 December 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Amazon doesn’t have the habit of providing the press with sales figures for their Kindle devices, but today the company made an exception and revealed that for the past three weeks it has been selling more than a million Kindles a week.
Amazon’s Kindle product line comprises four products with prices ran... |
16 December 2011
02:24 GMT |
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Even though the Kindle Format 8 remains a mystery for most of us, Amazon has already added support for this HTML5-based content delivery platform in its Kindle Fire.Nate Hoffelder from The Digital Reader uncovered this while taking a look at the source code for the Manage My Kindle page.Deep inside this, he found a s... |
15 December 2011
10:48 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire has proven to be a smashing hit for Amazon which is now expected to sell more than 6 million of these 7-inch tablets by the end of the year, making it one of the most successful products in the company’s history.According to the Goldman Sachs report, the 6 million Kindle Fire tablets will also b... |
14 December 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Despite being a huge success for Amazon, the Kindle Fire tablet was criticized by many for its sluggish and incomplete software, so Amazon is now looking to address these issues with a new firmware update that is expected to arrive in a couple of weeks.Originally introduced at the end of October and made available a... |
12 December 2011
19:51 GMT |
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The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has been breaking the sales figures ever since it was launched, back on November 15, but it didn't get to all regions of the world, though the UK may get it at last. The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has not yet reached the United Kingdom, and Amazon didn't actually say when, if ... |
7 December 2011
11:27 GMT |
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Sure, the Kindle Fire is nice and all, but why bother with Amazon’s port of the Android OS when Ice Cream Sandwich is so much cooler?That’s exactly what a user on the XDA Forums though when he started his work on getting Android 4.0 to run on the $199 7-inch tablet.After about two weeks spent on this proj... |
7 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire is definitely a huge success for Amazon, but not all seems to be going so well for this tablet as we though as recently a great deal of users have been plagued by all sort of Wi-Fi issues when using their Kindle.These range from the inability to connect to Wi-Fi networks or not having Internet connect... |
6 December 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Amazon still refuses to officially come out and say how many Kindle Fire tablets it sold so far, but there are other ways for the world to find out the numbers.
Digitimes got to find out how many of those things Amazon itself received from Quanto Computer, the one who actually makes them.
Granted, this doesn'... |
2 December 2011
18:21 GMT |
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Again, analysts are fussing over the Amazon Kindle Fire, with iSuppli taking its turn at stating how likely it is to finally dethrone the iPad as top-selling tablet.
Amazon's 7-inch device, which costs about $199 (about 149 EUR), hasn't been around for more than two weeks or so.
Nonetheless, it has prov... |
2 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet is making the headlines yet again, this time for outselling none other than the Apple iPad, on one store at least. Many people refused to believe the rumors, but they won't be able to keep denial up for long once they find out that the Kindle Fire tablet outsold the iPad... |
2 December 2011
07:19 GMT |
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If you thought that enabling Cloud acceleration on your Kindle Fire increases the browsing speed of the tablet here’s a real shocker for you. Testing has revealed that Amazon’s “acceleration” has actually the opposite effect.Yeah, you read that right. Turning Cloud acceleration on, actually ma... |
30 November 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Amazon has started pushing an update for the Kindle Fire over WiFi which is reported to brake the root for those of you who felt adventurous enough to get full control over your 7-inch tablet.The company hasn’t said what this new update will get you in terms of features, other than that it will bring a series o... |
30 November 2011
03:43 GMT |
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With Black Friday now over, Amazon has come out to proclaim the supremacy of its 7-inch Kindle Fire, which during this one-day shopping extravaganza managed to become not only the hottest product at Amazon.com, but also the best-selling tablet at Target.No exact figures were put behind Amazon’s claims, but the ... |
28 November 2011
07:26 GMT |
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This might not exactly apply to all slates, especially the big ones (10.1 inches), but at least one type of tablets are going through a more or less general price overhaul.
Back when the Kindle Fire was released by Amazon, some were quick to speculate that it would lead to a sort of general price reduction for tabl... |
24 November 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Amazon probably knew to expect patent lawsuits when it made the Kindle Fire tablet, but it is unclear if even it expected the device to start being called a music player.
Much to the chagrin of all those who dislike patent trolling, and trolling in general, Personal Audio LLC just filed a suit against Amazon.
Thi... |
24 November 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Amazon had great success with its recently released Kindle Fire 7-inch tablet, but according to an analyst this is only the beginning as in 2012 the outfit could sell as many as 12 million of these $199 (147.7 EUR) devices. If the 12 million unit estimate will end up being right this could bring Amazon a large chunk ... |
23 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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With Black Friday just around the corner, new consumer research from Parks Associates reveals that Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet and Apple’s iPad 2 are tied among U.S. holiday shoppers. The Fire’s selling point seems to be just that - its selling (price) point.Parks Associates’ Consumer Decision... |
23 November 2011
05:26 GMT |
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After last week Amazon's Kindle Fire revealed all its secrets thanks to a teardown published online, it's now time for the Nook Tablet to get the same treatment.Just like the Amazon 7-incher, B&N's creation was also torn to pieces by iFixit, which has provided us with a series of high resolution photos... |
21 November 2011
14:20 GMT |
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Research firm ChangeWave has issued the results of a new analysis according to which the new Amazon Kindle Fire is going to “leapfrog the competition and become the number two product in the tablet market.” The only requirement: “as long as the Kindle Fire can provide a quality user experience.&rdqu... |
21 November 2011
08:55 GMT |
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After their specs, software and content available were compared to see who takes the 7-inch tablet crown, Amazon's Kindle Fire and the B&N Nook Tablet were now put to a different test to see which device can hold up better in a head-to-head drop test.The winner, as you will find out by watching the video enclose... |
21 November 2011
05:56 GMT |
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