Posts Tagged ‘amazon’
Amazon unveils Kindle Fire and Touch: Threatens Android cousins more than iPad 2
The worst kept secret since civil servants decided to leave al-Qaeda dossiers on trains, Amazon finally ended the will-they-won’t-they speculation over its entry into the tablet game. The 7 inch Kindle Fire is full-colour dual core tablet running a customised version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Unlike the vast majority of 7 inch Android tablets however, the Kindle Fire has a the benefits of Amazon’s content ecosystem and incredible pricing power…
Sony e-reader – hands on
I attended the Sony Reader demonstration with one thing in mind – to buy an Amazon Kindle later that day. Somewhere between seeing the Sony Reader and forcing the European Product Manager outside to demonstrate its display in bright sunlight, I changed my mind. I realised quality eReader devices were not just novel to Amazon. I turned a page. On paper, the products are pretty similar. They both store more…
Amazon Kindle 3 review roundup
Amazon has announce that the newest version of its famous Kindle e-reader device will be hitting the (virtual) shelves on August 27th. At £109 for a Wi-Fi device, and £149 for 3G + Wi-Fi, the reading device is certainly one of the most affordable readers available – but is it better than a book? We’ve scoured the web to find out if the Kindle really is the droid we’ve been…
Amazon US pulls Archos 5 from sale
Reports are circulating that Amazon US have pulled the Archos 5 from sale. This is confirmed, at the time of writing, by a quick check of the sales page which states it’s not for sale because “customers have told us there may be something wrong with our inventory of the item, the way we are shipping it, or the way it’s described here”. This appears to relate to the 160GB…
