Amazon launches new Kindle tablets and e-readers – ZDNet.be

Summary: Amazon has proposed six new Kindle models. Both tablets and e-readers underwent an update.

At an event in New York, Amazon unveiled its new range of e-readers and tablets.

The range Kindle -e-readers from Amazon will be expanded with two new models. The existing Kindle Paperwhite will be joined by the Kindle and Kindle Voyage.

The latter is the thinnest and most advanced e-reader that Amazon claims to have already made. It has a resolution of 300ppi and improved brightness and contrast. The screen brightness is automatically adjusted to the brightness of the room where you are reading. The Page Press technology you can with a light touch of your thumb on the side of the screen, turn a page in your book. There you will also get tactile feedback.

The Voyage has optional onboard 3G to download books anywhere and extradited from December. He will take. Between 199 and $ 289

Basic Model

The Kindle is the new base model of Amazon’s e-readers. Its processor is now twenty percent faster, he has been twice as much storage memory compared to its predecessor (4GB), and it can now be operated with a touch screen. This e-reader is from early October retails for $ 79. For that price you do have ads on the lock accompaniments, those who do not wish to pay $ 99.

In addition to these two newcomers, Amazon also existing Kindle Paperwhite of twice as much storage memory feature .

Tablets starting at $ 99

About the tablets then. The new Fire HD 6 with a 6 inch screen, is to bring all Amazon for $ 99 to the man. The trinket for that price a quad-core processor on board ticking at 1.5 GHz and 8 GB of storage memory. Front and rear cameras are fitted, the rear camera can shoot movies in 1080p. The gem comes in five different colors. Again, the lowest price is only for those who see no problem in order to get advertising on its lock screen

The Fire HD7 has a 7 inch screen with a resolution of 1,280 by 800 pixels.. The processor and the storage memory are the same as in the Fire HD 6 and here you can choose from five colors. The Fire HD7 is on sale from $ 139.

These two new tablets also come in a special Kids Edition, which will cost. 149 and $ 189 respectively For that extra cost, you get a rubber cover and two-year warranty. A subscription to Amazon Freetime is included: a service with thousands of books, movies, apps and games for children

The top of Amazon’s tablet line is the Fire HDX with a screen of 8.9 inches and 4G on board. This device runs on a Snapdragon 805-chip 2.5 GHz and get a new graphics processor that is 70 percent faster than its predecessor. Also, the wifi chip was upgraded and now works with the 802.11ac standard. With 339ppi, the screen is even sharper than that of an iPad Air, says Amazon.

For $ 379 you can buy a Fire HDX with 16 GB of storage memory. For 32 and 64 GB, you pay 429 and $ 479.

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Windows 8 streaming

All Fire tablets run on the new OS 4 Fire ( a derivative of Android, which was taken at the kick considerably by Amazon, which has its own appstore). Remarkably, the Fire HDX also runs Amazon Workspaces making you Windows 8 as a virtual desktop can stream from the cloud to your tablet.