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Kindle Fire Voted Best Android Tablet For Playing Games

December 11, 2013 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

The result of a survey carried out by IDC and App Annie has come up with some surprising result. The survey related to the people’s choice of the tablet they would prefer for playing games. Also, the survey concerned Android running tablets only. While the Apple iOS platform is the preferred platform among gamers, what the survey has revealed is that Android devices too are fast catching up in this aspect. However, what has come as even more surprising is that it is the Kindle Fire that has been voted to be the most popular device for playing games. Surprising since the Kindle Fire which its makers promote as a device primarily for reading ebooks among other things has beaten dedicated gaming devices such as the Nintendo 3DS on its march to the top slot.

So what is the best tablet for gaming? That’s subjective, of course, but a new study shows it may not be the device you think. While most still turn to iOS for gaming, the Android realm is catching up quickly. While we focus on tablets like the Nexus 7, we’re way off base. In fact, we’re not even acknowledging the people’s choice.

The survey also indicates that between tablets and smartphones, people prefer the smartphone for playing games. So the Kindle lost out when it came to a match against the smartphone users for playing games. If the PS Vita is also taken into the study, Android smartphones would yet win hands down which goes to show the extent of the coverage and usage of Android smartphones in the market today. There is the other aspect of dimension where the smartphones now coming in such size that tablets are losing out on that count too. The above applies to the 7 inch tablet that has been reeling under pressure from the phablet or big screen smartphone segment.

The Android market is catching up so far as gamers choice goes which till now has been quite iOS centric. There is the App Store which provides developers a good ground for distributing their games which does have a measurable effect on users’ choice of the physical gadget. It was also noted that iPod had received many votes in the survey which means the simple games are also something that many people like to play.

Amazon Kindle Smartphone – Amazon Denies Free Smartphone Rumors

September 20, 2013 By Jack M. Robinson 1 Comment

The wonder phone from Amazon which had been rumored for launch this year and that too available for free that is not locked to any service provider, has turned out to be all myth. Amazon has themselves denied any such move or product coming this year. Jessica Lessin, a journalist who had worked with the Wall Street Journal before and who has to her credit the accurate prediction on the device launched by Amazon last year, had written about this bit of news on the to-be launched smartphone from Amazon.

She has sources and that too reliable ones in Amazon, is her claim, based on which she had published her prediction. Significantly, Amazon hasn’t ruled out entirely there are into making such a device even though they haven’t acknowledged it either.

At present Amazon’s Kindle Fire is counted among the best Android tablet if not the best out there. One of the reasons behind its success is that the Kindle Fire devices are offered in an extremely competitive price range. This being so considering Amazon’s strategy with the Kindle Fire tablet offerings is that these are mediums to drive sales of Amazon’s content. The Kindle Fire devices are closely tied to the Amazon ecosystem, be it ebooks, music or videos.

Now with smartphones being the other segment besides tablets that has been witnessing considerable growth in recent times, it’s all but natural for Amazon to vie for a product of its own in this segment. This will provide the online retailer with a new medium to push sales of its contents or other products. While it has been a typical Amazon policy to use a low initial cost of the product to lure in buyers, the idea of zero upfront costs does seem a bit too far stretched.

To sum up, the market would have to wait to get any positive result from Amazon in this regard though no one knows how long we can be kept waiting.

Amazon Kindle Fire Price Drops, Hinting the Arrival of New Kindle Fire Models

August 27, 2013 By Troy Rubenson 2 Comments

We have been hearing a lot about Amazon working on the release of new Amazon Kindle Fire models. However, there has been no official announcement on it. Still, the rumors about the arrival of new Kindle Fire models are getting hotter and hotter.

Amazon has now announced price reduction on all the existing models which indicates that soon they will be replaced by new models. The existing entry-level Kindle Fire will be available at a low price of 159USD which means Amazon has reduced the price of the device by 40USD.

Amazon needs to slot their new set of tablets well because the Google Nexus 7 has already arrived and is currently leading the 7inch tablets category. The next edition of Apple iPad mini is also going to arrive by the end of this year or at the beginning months of 2014. So, it would be good for Amazon to launch its tablet very soon before the Apple iPad Mini 2 arrives.

In the previous months, there were lots of rumors going around about the forthcoming Amazon Kindle Fire tablets. According to the rumor mill, Amazon is believed to be working on high resolution tablets. Also, the details about the new tablets revealed that these devices will be powered with quad-core 800 CPU from Qualcomm. Only by considering high resolution display and quad-core CPU, tech analysts were considering that these new line of tablets from Amazon is going to give serious competition to the Google Nexus 7.

Yesterday the tech world came to know much more about the new line of tablets from Amazon. The entry level Kindle Fire tablet which stole the limelight last year is going to come to with impressive specs. The Kindle Fire will be powered with 1.5GHz dual-core OMAP4 4470CPU. It will also come with PowerVR SGX544 GPU.

By going by the specs of the new entry-level Kindle Fire, it is going to run on the same chipset that powers the old Kindle Fire HD tablets of previous year. This seems to be a good upgrade from the old 1.2GHz OMAP4 4430CPU which powers the existing entry-level Kindle Fire. Also, the benchmark tests conducted on the new model shows its performance is twice better than last year’s model.

The Kindle Fire which is going to be released will be the last tablet from Amazon to come with T1 CPUs. New reports reveal that in the forthcoming year, the entry-level slate from Amazon will run on quad-core MediaTek 8135 CPU.

The third gen Kindle Fire which is expected to arrive soon will be sporting 1GB RAM. The Kindle Fire HD models will get a boost of 2GB RAM. All the three models are going to be powered with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS. The Kindle Fire model will feature HD quality display resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Also, the entry-level model will put on the design of the previous year’s Kindle Fire HD tablets. It is also rumored that Amazon will be releasing two storage variants of 16GB and 32GB.

Amazon to Launch A line of Kindle Fire Tablets

August 1, 2013 By Troy Rubenson Leave a Comment

The new Google Nexus 7 which was released recently is the currently the best tablet available in the market. However, soon after the launch of 2^nd generation Nexus 7, Amazon announced the arrival of new Kindle Fire tablets. It means Amazon is not going to launch just one device but it has got couple of new Kindle Fire devices under its sleeves.

The new line of Kindle Fire tablets will be sporting a different kind of display which will offer higher resolution. It will also come with high performance CPUs. According to a recent report, Amazon will be launching newer editions of Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. Both the devices will be priced lower than the recently released Google Nexus 7.

Kindle Fire tablets from Amazon are available in three different variants namely, 7inch Kindle Fire, 7inch Kindle Fire HD and 8.9inch Kindle Fire HD. So, we can understand that Amazon will be releasing upgraded versions of all the three devices.

The current Kindle Fire HD which has got a display resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels will be replaced by a newer Kindle Fire HD with a display resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The current 8.9inch Kindle Fire HD which has got a display resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels will be replaced by a newer 8.9inch Kindle Fire HD with a display resolution of 2560x 1600 pixels. So, we can also expect that the low end 7 inch Kindle Fire that has 1024 x 600 pixels will be replaced by a Kindle Fire that has 1280 x 800 pixels.

The new line of Kindle Fire devices is not just about better displays but it also about enhanced performance. The new HD tablets will be powered with quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and 2GB RAM. Like always, the new Kindle Fire devices will run on modified edition of Android that will come with support for Amazon App Store.

The forthcoming Kindle Fire devices will allow users to connect to the internet over dualband Wi-Fi. With Dolby Audio speakers onboard, users will be able to enjoy listening to music and watching movies on the new Kindle Fire variants. Like before, the Kindle Fire devices will continue to offer 10 or higher hours of battery life.

The new Silk internet browser powered with Amazon Cloud server will also be available on the new tablets. Each of the new Kindle Fire tablets will be available in three storage variants namely, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB.

Amazon is yet to release exact info on the specs of the forthcoming Kindle Fire tablets. However, going by the recent rumors, we can feel that the new tablets from Amazon surely appear to be very promising. Also, Amazon is yet to release info on the price of these devices. If the cost of the new tablets is somewhat similar to that Google Nexus 7 and current line-up, one should consider buying the new Kindle Fire tablet.

What do you think about the new Kindle Fire line-up? Can it compete with the likes of Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3? Do let us know your views.

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