Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet: $199
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mack
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hiraethified
I used to think that until I tried to take a picture with a tablet - talk about cumbersome!
But I think you're missing the point of what I expect this tablet to be. It's not trying to be an Apple shiny do-it-all device but what it will do, it will do very well indeed. And it'll be cheap.
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hiraethified
I don't think it's that kind of tablet. Besides, you can do video chat on home PCs and on many smartphones now.
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hiraethified
Just like with the Kindle, Amazon are seeking to be different from the pack and offer an affordable gadget with its own advantages.
If video chat is that important, a cheapo Android tablet will do the job.
ChrisFilter
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I like Amazon and I consume books by the bucketload through their Kindle Apps, but this tablet doesn't offer me anything that my 5" Dell Streak doesn't apart from a different UI and a bit more screen. It's not an iPad competitor by any means - and, as we all know, Android tablets are light-years behind the iPad when it comes to what matters - apps - anyway.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
When you consider how many people use their tablets on planes (I see lots when I fly) relying on cloud storage is rubbish. 6Gb isn't that much, once you've put a few movies on. My 32gb tablet is almost full!
6gb of movies wouldn't last out the 10hr battery life estimated in the OP... Which seems... like a really... curious decision. Presuming it's accurate.
Throw in a few albums to pass the time, plus half a gig of apps, and you're going to be doing well to get away with a couple of films in whatever memory's left.
e2a: and even the airport analogy is - arguably - OTT. You just need to be away from a WiFi hotspot (or a free wifi hotspot) to make the 6gb pretty rapidly redundant. Given the OP suggests the first models are wifi only. And presuming the tablet's going to have an entertainment-type focus (and isn't - presumably - meant to be primarily for reading, given the use of a backlit / non - e-ink screen?!)
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ChrisFilter
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How can you say that before you've even seen the thing or know what it does?
Of course I know what it does. It's a 7" tablet running native Amazon apps on top of a Android base-layer. It's not exactly reinventing the wheel!
pianissimo
a gradient of grey
and I thought that beast is extinct.
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pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Well it's a problem if you're a boat dweller. Am quite often many miles from a hotspot. As 3g isn't cheap I limit downloading until I'm on a relatives wifi.
pianissimo
a gradient of grey
I'd recommend you the Galaxy Note then.Happily, no. Mine's still going strong. Best phone I've ever used
It's a problem if you're anyone who's intending to use it for anything other than extremely focused activities, anywhere other than your own home! It savages its use as a media player / entertainment device; except in the one area where it seems to be sabotaging itself - eBooks - by introducing a backlit screen...
Again - presuming the report in the OP is accurate...
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hiraethified
No, you really haven't a clue. You haven't any idea about how the tablet looks like, what the UI looks like and - crucially - what differentiating apps and services it will be running.
ChrisFilter
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Oh come on!
I haven't a clue what a 7" tablet will be like? Really? I'm guessing the Kindle app will be, er, the Kindle app. The music player will be a music player and - unbelievably - the video player will play video. The Amazon app store is nothing new so that won't be a surprise.
Re: looks - who really cares unless it's fugly?
Re: UI - I have no doubt it will be very nice.
Re: services - same as everything else but with a different UI.
Re: apps - it'll run some very high quality Amazon apps, of that I have no doubt, but only for key things... that aside it's just going to be version-limited editions of Android apps.
My phone does everything it will be able to do in a pocketable form-factor, and Kindle Tab doesn't have the undeniable wealth of apps that the iPad has so won't stop me getting one of those for Xmas.
I'm not being difficult or unreasonable. I'm just saying it's just going to be a nice, cheap version of what's already there. I'm sure it will sell by the bucketload compared to other Android tabs.
ChrisFilter
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What of my original post was inaccurate, btw?
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hiraethified
Yes, you're guessing and because of that I'm not entirely convinced by your claim that the Amazon tablet won't "offer anything that your 5" Dell Streak doesn't apart from a different UI and a bit more screen."Oh come on!
I haven't a clue what a 7" tablet will be like? Really? I'm guessing the Kindle app will be, er, the Kindle app. The music player will be a music player and - unbelievably - the video player will play video. The Amazon app store is nothing new so that won't be a surprise.
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hiraethified
That may be the point at where I get one. If I'm in the States it'll cost me just £50!
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/28/live-from-amazons-tablet-event-in-nyc/
not quite as razzmatazz as an apple launch, but not bad
not quite as razzmatazz as an apple launch, but not bad
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