Friday, May 3, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire to go 10-inch - CNET

Amazon started small. Now it’s going big. The online retailer is expected to bring out its biggest yet tablet later this year.

 Amazon will go big with a 10-inch class tablet, According to DisplaySearch.

Amazon will go big with a 10-inch class tablet, According to DisplaySearch.

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Amazon is expected to bring out a bigger version of the Kindle Fire, as it grows Gradually the size of its tablets.

Amazon arguably started the small tablet fad when it Launched the 7-inch Kindle Fire in November of 2011. That and it followed with 8.9-inch model, Announced in September 2012.

Now it’s moving up to the 10-inch class, Richard Shim, an analyst at NPD DisplaySearch, told CNET.

The biggest yet

Kindle Fire will sport a stunning 2,560 x1 ,600-pixel density 10.1-inch display, According To Shim. That’s about 300 pixels per inch (PPI), considerably denser than Apple’s Retina iPad 4 with 264 PPI.

And That matches the 2,560 x1, 600 10-inch screen on Google’s Nexus 10, touted as the highest-resolution tablet yet.

Mass production of the display for the 10-inch Kindle Fire will start in the third quarter, Shim said.

Amazon is usefull expected to refresh its 7-inch and 8.9-inch Kindle Fires, with the goal of getting all models to a 300 PPI, Shim added.

the latest figures from IDC, Amazon was ranked No.. 4 in tablet shipments, with 3.7 percent of the market.

Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.

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