"Amazon may enter tablet fray in second half of 2011"

Not much news about the Amazon tablet but not many left
doubting this is going to happen rather sooner than later...
iPad met its match in the TouchPad - Google News
Even (obviously photoshopped) pictures are included

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Pricing expected to start around $299.

If the tablet as a device class is here to stay, the HP TouchPad firesale proved
that pricing is everything (just like any other product), "magic" or not...

Diogen.
 
The true test will be when iPad sales for August/September come out. Did they dip or remain steady?


But Amazon would be very smart to price in the $200 range. Feed that low-end market.
 
We haven't heard about Intel's assault on the tablet market for a couple months by now...
What if Amazon uses Intel chips in their tablet?

Intel is known to have ported Android to Atom. And eager to became a player in the tablet market.
This could have forced them to make Amazon an offer "they couldn't refuse"...:)
And could make a $250-$300 tablet with modern specs possible.

Intel is also looking for a "foot in the door" with MeeGo.
Maybe Amazon's tablet is Linux but not Android?

Diogen.
 
We haven't heard about Intel's assault on the tablet market for a couple months by now...
What if Amazon uses Intel chips in their tablet?

Intel is known to have ported Android to Atom. And eager to became a player in the tablet market.
This could have forced them to make Amazon an offer "they couldn't refuse"...:)
And could make a $250-$300 tablet with modern specs possible.

Intel is also looking for a "foot in the door" with MeeGo.
Maybe Amazon's tablet is Linux but not Android?

Diogen.

Why try to build a large Android marketplace on Amazon if their tablet will NOT be Android? Just saying. :)
 
Amazon might fork Android and go its own way.
And that seems to be the case...

Complete fork, PlayBook-looking, all Amazon services integrated, no camera, hardware unknown, no Google apps, etc.
The last means it won't have any effect on Android activations.

Might be a success, might be not.
It ain't a Nook killer.
Hence: no interest.

Close, but no cigars...:)

Diogen.
 
So, if the TechCrunch story is true, Amazon is sticking to its own game and has no
desire to enter the generic Android tablet market. Depending on the price and specs,
the XDA gang might have a word on what it will be used for in real life, but so far
it doesn't look it will generate too much excitement in the modding community.

Nook Color in the meantime is getting ready for the Amazon tablet and is rumored to get an update
Rumor: Barnes & Noble to release Nook Color 2 this month
If this model turns out to have a dual core CPU, camera and just as easy to hack as the current model, they'd have another winner...

Diogen.
 
To quickly squeeze in another Amazon tablet rumor before those won't be needed anymore:
Kindle Fire is the name, TI dual-core 1.2GHz chip, between $250 and $300 and looking something like this...

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As a sidenote, the successor to the best value tablet in Android-land over the last year -
Nook Color 2 - is expected to have about the same specs and be released around the same time...

Diogen.
 
And publishers are getting ready to line up. They must feel relief to have an alternative to sell their wares...
Big publishers to provide fuel for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet? -- Engadget

And the rumor has it, Amazon plans to charge the same 30% "tax"...

Reminds me the time Bobby Fisher entered the chess scene.
Despite being anything but a "nice person", everybody worshiped him for one reason:
he lifted the status of the game and made it possible to earn a (decent) living by playing chess...:)

Diogen.
 
But these publishers are ALREADY on the iPad. Of course they are going to offer stuff on other devices; not sure why it is big news.
 
diogen said:
Just as rumored...

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Diogen.

The new fire looks interesting, but is it wifi only?

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