Amazon enjoyed very good success with the launch of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet back in October and it appears that the company is looking to hit the market big time this holiday shopping season with 4 more options if you are looking to upgrade. The Amazon Kindle Fire 2 will come in a variety [...]
When the Amazon Kindle Fire hit the web it did so like a ton of bricks and the device sold like hot cakes for a month solid breaking all sorts of sales records for the largest online retailer. Since then, the sales have leveled out, but the draw to the ultra affordable, Android powered tablet [...]
19 May 2012
Fresh rumors are sprouting in about the possibility of Amazon coming up with a new version of its popular Android powered tablet – the Kindle Fire, very soon. The difference between the current Kindle Fire and this one would be that this one would sport a much larger display – at 10 inches. This would [...]
The Kindle was launched on November 15th of 2011 and was in the news for about two months after the tablet hit sales records and quickly became the hottest thing on the Amazon web site. Since then, there was a small software update and really nothing more about the Kindle Fire. This week, Amazon announced [...]
Apple’s continued dominance in the tablets sector is expected to continue in the foreseeable future with a recent study by Gartner suggesting that Cupertino’s hold over tablets might continue till 2016 – a good four years from now! The research firm has revealed this in a recent report published by them. The report talks about the [...]
27 March 2012
The Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the few undeniable success stories of the young tablet market. The first non-iPad tablet to sell a significant number of units, the Kindle Fire showcased a whole new philosophy for tablets, one that bypasses the concept of a all-purpose mobile device in favor of streamlined piece of technology [...]
To celebrate a year of the existence of its own Android applications store, Amazon has announced a week long sale of its most popular apps. The Amazon App Store went live on March 22, 2011 and has been doing decent business ever since. Also, with the arrival of Amazon’s own Android powered (albeit a highly [...]
16 March 2012
It is a known fact that Apple’s iPad, first released in 2010 continues to dominate the tablets sales pie chart across the globe ever since its launch. While Google tried to compete with the iPad with the help of its Android OS and some help from its partner manufacturers, Android was unable to meet the [...]
17 February 2012
The Kindle Fire sparked something of a revolution within the tablet industry. Amazon showed, for the first time, that a company could take a significant share of the tablet market, seemingly overnight, challenging the conventional wisdom that the tablet market belonged entirely to Apple. Amazon accomplished this task through a very simple philosophy- instead of [...]
17 February 2012
According to a latest report by IHS iSuppli, Amazon has overtaken the rest of the tablet makers to become the second largest Tablet vendor in the U.S. In a span of a few months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire finds itself right behind Apple’s iPad as the second most sought after tablet in the U.S. In fact, [...]