Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire"

Re:Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire" by mcpherrinm on Monday September 26, 2011 @05:14PM (#3040761)

2.1 isn't surprising, since they forked a while ago.

The GUI will be completely Amazon-built, so the the version of Android probably won't matter all that much to end-users.

Since this is all speculation, we'll have to see when the device is unveiled.

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Re:Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire" by runevault on Monday September 26, 2011 @06:13PM (#3040955)

Except for the massive speed difference that comes from the JIT which arrived in 2.2

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Re:Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire" by moe on Monday September 26, 2011 @07:47PM (#3041204)

There's really only two tablet speeds; "smooth" (ipad) and "jaggy" (android).

If amazon makes their tablet "smooth" then that will be an achievement independently and despite of android - not due to a specific android version.

And before the android-fanboys crawl out of the woodwork: The "next version" is always supposed to finally solve the lags, by virtue of some awesome software-fix or raw dual-core power.

However, just today I used an SGS2. The latest "next version", dual-core and all. And guess what: It lagged.

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Re:Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire" by CrazedGeek on Monday September 26, 2011 @08:35PM (#3041322)

Having used an SGS2 (the Sprint variant) for the past few days, you're crazy. If anything, it's almost a little too fast.

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Re:Amazon to Unveil the "Kindle Fire" by moe on Monday September 26, 2011 @09:28PM (#3041418)

Give it a few weeks. It has an unfortunate tendency to degrade over time.

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