Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire will be released on November 15th 2011 in the USA and sold by Amazon.com. according to the latest press releases. Launch dates for other countries have not been announced. The Kindle Fire is a completely new, all colour version of their very popular Kindle ebook reader. The first model will be a 7" device, but there is talk of a 10" model later on. The kindle Fire is in direct competition with the Android, PlayBook and Pad 2 and is cheaper too.

Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire is cheaper than its colour competitors, nut it is the most expensive device in the Kindle stable. However, the Kindle Fire is capable of displaying 16 million colours at 169 pixels per inch (PPI) on its 7" Gorilla glass touch screen, which is 30 times tougher than plastic.

This means that it will stand up to rougher treatment in a handbag without scratching, although it does also come with a leather cover by Marware as a screen protector.

The Kindle Fire cannot be said to have the latest operating system with the latest features, but it runs a customized version of Google's Android 2 and you will be able to browse full-colour magazines on its colour 7 multi-touch display with anti-glare screen.

This new Kindle tablet makes use of Amazon Silk and Amazon's cloud storage to put more processing in the cloud and speed up processing. It is said that processing purchases on the Fire will be faster than on Amazon's site on a desktop computer.

There is also a special app to speed up purchasing from Amazon. The operating system is also designed to be predictive in that it tries to predict or remember pages that you use often and pre-load them.

Unfortunately, the Kindle Fire appears to be a little hamstrung, because it has no camera, no microphone, no 3G and only 8GB of storage. It does have Wi-Fi though as do the other Kindle devices. It beggars the question whether an upgraded version will be available next year.

Kindle's very popular Wispersync has been extended to cover all your Kindle-enabled devices and will now work with films as well as ebooks. This means that if you watch part of a film on the Fire, you can continue watching where you left off on your large TV screen when you get home.

Kindle Fire customers will have access to the Kindle owners' lending library of 100,000 films and TV shows, 18 million song titles, hundreds of magazines and Kindle's ever-expanding library of ebooks. Customers get one month free access to Amazon Prime which boasts the streaming of over 10,000 films.

Kindle Fire owners will get free cloud storage and access to thousands of apps and games. At the moment it looks as if all these features might only be available in the United States, but the situation is unclear. if you do not live in the USA, it would be better to check exactly what yoyu will be getting for your $199 or whatever it will cost locally in your country.