Amazon’s New Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite

[dfergie]

Amazon is scheduled to hold a press conference Thursday morning in Santa Monica, Calif., where it is expected to release its new Kindles. But it looks like the company let the cat out of the bag early this evening with some TV ads showing the new products.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technol...kindle-paperwhite-shown-in-ads-before-launch/

 

[yourbeliefs]

I'm sure this conference will steal all the thunder from Apple's iPhone 5 announcement. ;p

Seriously you can't really tell much until they do a formal announcement. I'm expecting a $50 price cut on current Kindle Fire along with a new Kindle that will have the $200 price tag, retiring the old e-ink models, and bringing in the new touch and a backlit model.

 

[meStevo]

Announcement was impressive.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

It looks impressive, although I have to laugh at the 4G model which allows you 250MB of data per month. On LTE you can download 25 MB in less then 50 seconds.

I do hope they have other data plans available.

I have a regular Amazon Kindle now and for the most part I use it as a Slingplayer in my office. Don't use it for much more then that.

 

[KE4EST]

Yeah I might consider the 4g LTE model, but I want to know what the other data plans are or how much overage fees are.

 

[digiblur]

Re: Amazon’s New Kindle Fire and Kindle Paperwhite Shown in Ads Before Launch

Sounds like ISPs giving you a 50 mbit connection and only 400gb download for the month. You can blow through that cap in 1 day.

The kids have a Kindle Fire and they love it. But I do have it rooted and Google play on it with all apps, so it's more of a full tablet to them instead being locked down.

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge

 

[yaz96]

So Scott, you got your hands on one of those 4G pre-production models and shipped that out yesterday??

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

You wish.

But I guess you can sell that one that shipped to you and apply it to a Fire HD model.

 

[yaz96]

One can always dream............................


If anything, I might sell it to get my son a Nabi 2 tablet. It looks good for a kids tablet.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Sounds like ISPs giving you a 50 mbit connection and only 400gb download for the month. You can blow through that cap in 1 day.

The kids have a Kindle Fire and they love it. But I do have it rooted and Google play on it with all apps, so it's more of a full tablet to them instead being locked down.

Sent from my C64 w/Epyx FastLoad cartridge

What on earth are you downloading to blow through 400gb in a day???

 

[Teehar]

Nice looking additions to the kindle family.Still think they should come with gps mic, and camera though.

But I do have it rooted and Google play on it with all apps, so it's more of a full tablet to them instead being locked down.

Yep it makes them much more useful that way.

 

[yaz96]

Nice looking additions to the kindle family.Still think they should come with gps mic, and camera though.

It does have a camera and mic, they were touting the ability to Skype.


Free Skype video calls with front-facing HD camera

 

[rockymtnhigh]

The new e-ink kindle looks very interesting to me. My wife somehow crunched hers, you can not sit on the darn thing! So, might be time for a new one. Of course I'd give her my Keyboard 3G one.

 

[Teehar]

It does have a camera and mic, they were touting the ability to Skype.


Free Skype video calls with front-facing HD camera

Sweet!I suppose I should have read the details lol.

 

[Teehar]

They had sent me an email this morning.For anyone that hasn't seen the specs here is a link.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_70050_25688310_pe_b2/?ASIN=B0083PWAPW

 

[klang]

I'll likely have a Paperwhite under the Christmas tree. Unless of course I mange to break my Touch before then. I actually prefer buttons for page turns, keeps the screen cleaner.

 

[avg1joe]

What about ad supported kindles? Once upon a time you could get a kindle cheaper if it showed ads. I'd seen speculation that the lowest grade kindle fire would be around $100 and ad supported. I don't see any mention of ads now on the kindles. Have they done away with ads and the price break that goes with them or do all kindles have ads on them whether you like it or not.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The Kindle Fire HD has ads on the lock screen and can not be removed... (Yeah until someone roots it)

 

[rockymtnhigh]

What about ad supported kindles? Once upon a time you could get a kindle cheaper if it showed ads. I'd seen speculation that the lowest grade kindle fire would be around $100 and ad supported. I don't see any mention of ads now on the kindles. Have they done away with ads and the price break that goes with them or do all kindles have ads on them whether you like it or not.

From what I read with the e-ink one, not ad-supported. Fine with me. I hated the ads. Irritated me to no end. I was already buying the books, and the kindle.

 

[Foxbat]

Tech News Today reported that the new Fires would come with Ads and there wouldn't be Ad-Free versions available at higher prices. Engadget reported that a user had an e-mail from Amazon Support that there might be an option to pay a one-time fee to eliminate the ads will be how they handle it. Then, The Verge got word direct from Amazon that there would be no Opt-Out.

That's not going to stop me from entering the SatelliteGuys Birthday Contest, though!