The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire has a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and runs a forked version of Google's Android operating system. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle's e-books. It was released in the USA on November 14, 2011.

The Kindle Fire is running a customized Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS. Besides access to Amazon Appstore the Kindle Fire includes a cloud-accelerated "split browser" called Amazon Silk using Amazon EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and rendering, and Google's SPDY protocol for faster webpage content transmission. The user's Amazon digital content is given free storage in the Amazon Cloud's web-storage platform, and a built-in email application allows webmail ( Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox. The subscription-based Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, is available with a free trial period. The current version of the Kindle Fire OS as of November 29, 2011 is 6.2_User_3003020. 

Content formats supported are Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Kindle Mobi (.azw), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8

The new Kindle will give you access to almost 20 million movies, television series, songs and books. But you will also be able to download lots of applications from Amazon’s very own App Store. You can expect to see all the popular applications and games in there, such as Fruit Ninja and Angry Birds.

The Fire tablet comes with Amazon’s own Silk browser, which will allow you to browse the web quickly. Amazon’s servers are doing all the heavy lifting when it comes to browsing the web. This means that the hardware in the Kindle Fire will be spared from having to perform heavy calculations. Amazon’s servers build the pages for you and the Kindle Fire receives one data stream which displays the page.

With your Kindle Fire, you also receive free cloud storage for everything that you buy from Amazon with your tablet. What you buy will always be yours to store and retrieve on the cloud hosting that Amazon offers you with your Kindle.

The Fire tablet has a 7” touch screen display with a very impressive, high resolution (1024 x 600 pixels) display quality (169 pixels per inch).

Thanks to the IPS (in plane switching) technology, the display has a very wide viewing angle. 

The Kindle’s display has undergone a chemical process to strengthen it. The result of this is the display is 30 times harder and 20 times stiffer than regular plastic displays. The Kindle Fire’s Gorilla Glass display is of very high quality and it will be able to take more than a few bumps without breaking or getting scratched.

The Kindle Fire also has a very powerful 1GHz dual core processor. Dual core processors have shown to greatly improve performance in mobile devices.  The Kindle’s powerful hardware is spared because of the fact that Amazon’s servers handle the heavy lifting. This helps increase performance even more!

The Kindle Fire’s dimensions are 7.5” x 4.7” x 0.45” and it weighs a mere 14.6 ounces. This makes the Fire pretty portable. It’s certainly small enough to stuff in your bag so you can take it wherever you like. It’s wireless connection to the Internet makes it as mobile as can be.

The new Amazon Kindle has 8GB of internal storage. That’s plenty of storage for dozens of applications, movies, music titles and books. Let’s see if you can read / view / watch / hear them all in the 8 hours of battery life that the Fire offers you!

The Fire has 3.5 mm stereo audio jack. You don’t necessarily need to use a headset, because the Fire also has integrated speakers at the top. 

The Kindle Fire also has very good support for Wi-Fi connectivity. You can surf the web wherever you like, whether you are at home and using a private Wi-Fi network or whether you are out of the house and making use of a public Wi-Fi network. Supported networks are: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and 802.1X. There is also support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security.

The Kindle Fire tablet has a USB 2.0 micro-B connector, so that you can hook up your USB devices to it.

Kindle Fire Micro-USB cable

The Kindle Fire tablet allows you to stream music and movies straight to your tablet. You can store your favorite music on Amazon’s Cloud Drive, which is accessible at all times. You can choose from no less than 17 million music titles from the Amazon MP3 Store. Movies and TV shows are available for renting, purchasing, streaming and downloading.

You can also read magazines on your tablet in magazine style: you can flip through the pages as if you are reading an actual paper magazine. Magazines are display in full screen, so nothing distracts you from you and your magazine. But it doesn’t stop here: magazines on the Kindle Fire will have integrated video and audio. This is the future we’re living in, after all!

Naturally, the Kindle Fire supports all the Android games that you’ve played and loved on other Android mobile devices. 

Next to games, you’ll also get access to all the applications you’re used to. Weather prediction apps, navigational apps, social media apps, and more. Like with the Android Market, there is a small fee for applications and games. 

Thanks to the integrated email app, you will be able to retrieve all of your webmail right to your Kindle. Whether you are using AOL, Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail… the Fire’s email app can handle it and gives you a central place to retrieve, read and reply to all of your email.

The Fire’s user interface has been specifically designed to be very intuitive and easy to use. You might think that when device has a touch screen, it is automatically easy to use. But not every mobile device implements touch screen input functionality as well as the rest. The Kindle Fire, however, is a great example of a touch screen user interface done the right way.

The Kindle Fire’s powerful dual core processor no doubt helps a great deal in making the touch screen interface very smooth. All you have to do is tap & drag. Everybody can effortlessly navigate his or her way through the Fire’s user interface. The whole world is at your fingertips. All your recently played music titles, all your recently watched movies, all your recently accessed games & apps… everything is always within reach.

Not all of Amazon’s Kindle tablets support multi touch. Rest assured that the Fire does, in fact, support multi touch. 

There are literally millions and millions of books available to you when you are the proud owner of an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. 

The great thing is that by far the most books available for the Kindle, will cost you $9.99 or less. And then there are the more than 2 million books that have no more copyright and which are available for free!

The Kindle Fire is available November 15th, 2011 through Amazon Digital Services in the USA only. It will be sold at the very competitive price of $199.

The display can be presented landscape or portrait

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