{"id":687,"date":"2011-09-28T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookenvy.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2011-11-30T22:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:38:52","slug":"new-kindle-product-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/new-kindle-product-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Kindle Product Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so it\u2019s official – the new product line of Kindle eReaders and tablets is now announced and available for pre-order the Amazon.com<\/a> website. They all ship in November, but Bezos himself recommends pre-ordering now.<\/p>\n

10:52AM<\/strong> Fire ships November 15th. “We’re making many millions of these, but I still recommend you pre-order today.”
\n<\/em>– from the engadget live-blogging post<\/a><\/p>\n

As predicted and been talked about almost endlessly since rumors of the new Kindle were heard, Amazon.com<\/a> and their entire website and supporting infrastructure is now tailored to allow mobile devices (and especially the new Kindle Fire) to take full advantage.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lot technical details to swallow at once, but rest assured that it boils down to us being able to browse the Amazon.com<\/a> website on our mobile devices faster and more intuitively.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, everything is now \u2018in the cloud\u2019. Amazon.com<\/a> Prime has included movies and TV shows for a year or 2, but now it\u2019s also about music, books, magazines, etc and all tied into the mobile experience.<\/p>\n

Bottom line<\/strong>: Amazon.com<\/a> wants to entertain you in every possible way, on every device you could own – and all powered by their very own technology.<\/p>\n

Brilliant move.<\/p>\n

There should be little doubt that while there are other eReaders on the market, the Nook and the Kindle are 2 biggest contenders. New releases and announcements from either of them have little or no effect on the rest of the contenders. True to form, I\u2019ve been seeing tweets today that seem to indicate that even without placing the new Kindle line in consumers hands today, Barnes and Noble have lost market share.<\/p>\n

Ace to Amazon.com<\/a>. Ball is in your court now, Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And now for the specs:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The all-new Kindle Fire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kindle Fire – $199<\/strong><\/p>\n

Android based – much like the Nook color
\n7-inch IPS panel (not 100% sure what this is, but from what I can tell it\u2019s just an advanced LCD panel?)
\nGlass coated multi-touch screen
\nDual-core CPU
\nWeighs 14.6 ounces
\nWith Amazon.com<\/a>\u2019s new Amazon Silk cloud-accelerated browser, access to the whole range of services offered by Amazon.com<\/a> is limitless and in vibrant color.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Kindle Touch (and Touch 3G)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kindle Touch ($99) and Touch 3G ($149)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Traditional E Ink Pearl display but now with multi-touch
\n6-inch screen
\n7.5 ounces (213 grams)
\nContent is not limited to books, magazines, etc but with Amazon.com<\/a>\u2019s traditional \u201cexperimental\u201d browser, the experience will be less than stellar.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Kindle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kindle – $79<\/strong><\/p>\n

Traditional E Ink Peral display
\n6-inch screen
\n5-way controller as the interface
\n5.98 ounces
\nExperimental browser<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Basically, the new Kindle (without the keyboard) is the Kindle Touch without the multi-touch enabled screen.<\/p>\n

Personally, that sounds as if it is going to be as painful to type with as it is with the Kindle keyboard model we have now when typing in symbols.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Kindle Keyboard (and 3G)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also important to note that the 3rd generation Kindle with keyboard is still available under new names: Kindle Keyboard ($99), Kindle Keyboard 3G ($139) and Kindle DX ($379).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so it\u2019s official – the new product line of Kindle eReaders and tablets is now announced and available for pre-order the Amazon.com website. They all ship in November, but Bezos himself recommends pre-ordering now. 10:52AM Fire ships November 15th. “We’re making many millions of these, but I still recommend you pre-order today.” – from the engadget live-blogging post As predicted and been talked about almost endlessly since rumors of the new Kindle were heard, Amazon.com and their entire website and supporting infrastructure is now tailored to allow mobile devices (and especially the new Kindle Fire) to take full advantage. It\u2019s a lot technical details to swallow at once, but rest assured that it boils down to us being able to browse the Amazon.com website on our mobile devices faster and more intuitively. Furthermore, everything is now \u2018in the cloud\u2019. Amazon.com Prime has included movies and TV shows for a year or 2, but now it\u2019s also about music, books, magazines, etc and all tied into the mobile experience. Bottom line: Amazon.com wants to entertain you in every possible way, on every device you could own – and all powered by their very own technology. Brilliant move. There should be little doubt that while there are other eReaders on the market, the Nook and the Kindle are 2 biggest contenders. New releases and announcements from either of them have little or no effect on the rest of the contenders. True to form, I\u2019ve been seeing tweets today that seem to indicate that even without placing the new Kindle line in consumers hands today, Barnes and Noble have lost market share. Ace to Amazon.com. Ball is in your court now, Barnes and Noble.   And now for the specs: Kindle Fire – $199 Android based – much like the Nook color 7-inch IPS panel (not 100% sure what this is, but from what I can tell it\u2019s just an advanced LCD panel?) Glass coated multi-touch screen Dual-core CPU Weighs 14.6 ounces With Amazon.com\u2019s new Amazon Silk cloud-accelerated browser, access to the whole range of services offered by Amazon.com is limitless and in vibrant color.   Kindle Touch ($99) and Touch 3G ($149) Traditional E Ink Pearl display but now with multi-touch 6-inch screen 7.5 ounces (213 grams) Content is not limited to books, magazines, etc but with Amazon.com\u2019s traditional \u201cexperimental\u201d browser, the experience will be less than stellar.       Kindle – $79 Traditional E Ink Peral display 6-inch screen 5-way controller as the interface 5.98 ounces Experimental browser   Basically, the new Kindle (without the keyboard) is the Kindle Touch without the multi-touch enabled screen. Personally, that sounds as if it is going to be as painful to type with as it is with the Kindle keyboard model we have now when typing in symbols.       It\u2019s also important to note that the 3rd generation Kindle with keyboard is still available under new names: Kindle Keyboard ($99), Kindle Keyboard 3G ($139) and Kindle DX ($379).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[18,24,115,121,119,120,118],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-fire","tag-kindle-touch","tag-offering","tag-pre-order","tag-products"],"views":6368,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}