14 DAY TRIAL // Amazon is apparently working hard to refresh its Kindle Fire tablet portfolio. It’s about time because the retail giant hasn’t unveiled anything of interest in a long time, so we’re pretty curios to see what Amazon might come up with this year.
Anyway, according to the rumor mill, the company is hard at work developing a super affordable $50 / €45 tablet. But that’s not the only thing we’ll end up seeing from Amazon in terms of slates. Yesterday, Amazon’s 10-inch Kindle Fire leaked online, showcasing a sleek looking device that, weirdly, might come equipped with stock Android on board.
Judging by the looks of the device, we hypothesized that it might bring decent specs to the table. But today the tablet has apparently been spotted in the GFXBench database, revealing we shouldn’t be getting our hopes too high.
If the listing is accurate, the 10-inch Kindle Fire won’t be the successor of the Kindle HDX lineup, but merely a mid-range offering.
So far, Amazon doesn't have anything too cool up its sleeve
According to the information at hand, the tablet will boasts a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution and will bundle a MediaTek MT8135 chipset (made up of two ARM Cortex-A15 CPUs and two Cortex A7 cores) in combination with PowerVR Rogue G6200 GPU and 1GB of RAM.
As you can see, the resolution is pretty low for a 10-inch tablet, and the low RAM capacity isn’t enhancing the attractiveness of this device either. The benchmark listing shows that the slate will run Android 5.1 out of the box, but there’s little chance it will be the stock version of the platform.
Most likely, the final product will be released with the company’s own Fire OS out of the box (Amazon’s forked version of Android with no access to the Google Play Store).
To compare, Amazon’s 50 buck tablet is poised to make an appearance with a 6-ich display featuring 1024 x 600 pixel resolution. The device draws power from a quad-core MediaTek MT8127 Cortex-A7 processor with Mali-450 graphics, working in combination with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage.
The device should make it out with a 2MP rear camera plus a 0.3MP frontal one. Even if the listing doesn’t specify anything about this, we’re pretty sure the budget device won’t come equipped with microSD card slot, 802.11n Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 4.0.
Amazon should unveil these new models before the end of the year, but sadly there’s nothing much to be excited about.