Summary: Amazon expands sales of its budget-priced Kindle Fire tablets in a blow from 7 to 170 countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium. The price is great enough to make.
makers of other Android tablets nervous
U.S. online retailer announced on Thursday that it quite bolt on the sale of its Kindle Fire tablets. It is expanding its sales to 170 countries from its two newest models, which not only have very decent specifications, but also will be sold.
even for an extremely low price 
Good hardware
The Kindle Fire is available in two flavors, a seven-inch model and a 8.9-inch model, notably the price of the largest model competitors eyes protruding. (The device is only available in advance) A simulation we see that this Kindle Fire HD (16GB version) already in your possession for around 285 euros, which includes customs fees and (free) shipping.
Kindle Fire HD has a Full HD display (1920 x 1280) and a pixel density of 254 pixels per inch (ppi), which is little inferior to the screen of the new iPad (264 ppi). The 8.9-inch tablet is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor (OMAP4 4470) and is equipped with a powerful graphics chip from Imagination (SGX544).
The 7-inch version of the Kindle Fire HD may be there, with an image resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor (OMAP4 4460). Buy the 16GB model, you pay about 220 euros, while you are for the 32-GB version 248 euro lost.
Price fighter arrives
prices that Amazon uses for its tablets are a serious threat to all companies currently Android tablets are on the shelf. With a similar strategy, the U.S. company knew for years the market for e-book readers to dominate and now seems to want to do on the tablet market.
remarkably affordable Google Nexus 7 (32GB) Asus is currently about the same as the seven inch model from Amazon and promising Nexus 10, in the Benelux countries not yet on sale.
No thoroughbreds Android
It is true that the Kindle Fire HD programs running on a highly corrupted form of Android, which Amazon has completely adapted to wear his own products. This also means that the tablets do not contact Google Play, but depend on the offer in its own Android appwinkel.
Belgian readers, Kindle Fire HD in advance ordering on this page, while Dutch can go to this page. The delivery of the devices starting next month.
About Rowald Pruyn
Rowald undeterred by the millions trojans and rootkits that Windows users engulf many years. So he writes regularly about the most diverse security news and with his background as a software tester, he sometimes had most programs already in progress. As an experienced Windows user he follows all Microsoft closely, though he has been using Internet Explorer no longer.
This article appeared in the series:
- This week: Microsoft unveils Xbox One and Amazon Kindle Fire HD gets to Benelux
No comments:
Post a Comment