Amazon to reveal ‘Kindle Fire’ Android tablet on Wednesday

By on Sep 26, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Tablets September 26, 2011

Amazon will unveil its Android-powered “Kindle Fire” tablet on Wednesday during a press event in New York City. The Kindle Fire will begin to ship during the second week of November and, with a similar-sized 7-inch screen, the device looks very much like the BlackBerry PlayBook according to reports. GDGT explained that the device was built by Quanta, the same manufacturer that built the PlayBook, and the firm played a big role in designing each of the slates. While recent leaks have created a lot of buzz about the potential tablet, GDGT suggested the tablet might not be that exciting. Reportedly the Kindle Fire is “pretty poor” and was rushed out the door so that Amazon had a product on store shelves for the holiday season. TechCrunch argued the Kindle Fire is better than the PlayBook, however, thanks to Amazon’s content and a “custom version of Android.” The Kindle Fire is powered by a TI dual-core OMAP chip but the processor speed is still unclear. Amazon is expected to price the device between $250 and $300. BGR will covering Amazon’s press conference live on Wednesday, so be sure to tune in for more details.

Read [TechCrunch] Read [GDGT]

Tags:
, , , , , ,
23 Comments

Related Articles

  • Anonymous

    OMG it’s the 30th ipad killer.

    • http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

      It’s a glorified ebook reader you dolt. Then again I am not surprised to see that a fanboy has little to no knowledge of the tech world, that is unless it starts with a lowercase i.

      • thedude

        grizzly atoms must be an expert of the tech world.  all you fanboys and fangirls must worship her for her vast knowledge

      • Anonymous

        Grizzly is not a she! It’s a manbearpig!

      • Anonymous

        my best friend’s mom makes 77 USD an hour on the computer. she has been out of job for 9 months but last month her check was 7487 USD just working on the computer for a few hours. read about it and get started following the first step “Online Income Solution” , here flaturl.com/e3

      • Anonymous

        You’re right I guess my computer engineering degree is useless now :-(

    • Anonymous

      Why is your arm shoulder deep in Apple’s ass all the time? Can you not think for yourself?

    • Scrotum

      Not a chance.  Even an iPad with a bad battery and cracked display beats this thing.  True story!

    • Cer

      There’s no way this kills the iPad, and I’m proud to say I’m waiting to buy a tablet until there’s an iPad killer. This clearly isn’t it. It’s not even full Android.

    • jay_max

      OMG it’s another knee-jerk iSheeple comment.

  • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

    Same designers as the playbook? Instant fail.

    • Norma Spitz

      According to reports Norm is really Boy Geller’s alter ego.

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

        I’m Gellars alterego because I state the obvious? The playbook is far less useful than the touchpad and that thing sank. The writing is on the wall for RIM unless they switch to the DROID OS.

      • Drew Schimmele

        DROID OS?

      • jay_max

        There is no such thing as “DROID OS”

    • Harsh

      That’s too harsh Norm. If Amazon price this right and it looks like they know which part of the market they are after I think they could have a success here. If it’s positioned as a color Kindle with lots of nice extras I’d guess many will buy it. 

      RIM? What can anybody say about RIM? Just plain deluded and got everything they deserved for throwing a half baked technically deficient product out of the door just because they were suffering Apple Angst.  Then having the arrogance to price it on a par with the market leader.  That’s just stupid.  At least Amazon appear to have engaged brain before pressing the release button.

  • snakes

    no frontcamera no bestselleling device…..
    i hope amazon dont forget some iportent thinks in this device.
    Honeycomb later Ice Cream Sandwich,
    frontcam,
    acces to amazon cloud for realistic prices like livedrive,
    min 8GB Drive
    512mb  Ram
    agps
    the option to use as phone
    3g data transfer

  • whatever

    my guess is that it was never meant to compete directly with the ipad, but was intended to compete specifically with the nook color (tablet masquerading as an ereader). you have no idea how many idiots receive their kindles/nooks and were disappointed that it’s not backlit and can basically only read books. (hello, it’s supposed to be a book. an electronic book. those are its selling points!) barnes & noble released the nook color and for some reason unbeknownst to me, people snatched it up. it’s a crappy tablet, and an even crappier e-reader (given it doesn’t use e-ink and is backlit), but everyone seems to love it. I think amazon is just trying to capitalize on that market, and I think that (unfortunately) it will do splendidly.

  • Cer

    No stock email client. 

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      It’s gonna be just like the playbook then, worthless

  • Anonymous

    Please let the tablet be better than the name.

  • Anonymous

    I predict the Nook Color 2 will quench the Fire…

  • http://www.mediaentertainmentinfo.com/ Nitin Narang

    Kindle Fire addresses a different market segment altogether.. It is not the ipad tablet market..

blog comments powered by Disqus