Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires

Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires by jpxxx on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:08PM (#4485964)

I'm impressed with all of these. Amazon now has tablet pricing that smoothly ranges from $69 -> $499, an outstanding value on 4G service, a quality e-mail client story that includes ActiveSync, necessary touches like parental controls, a substantial app library, all of the one-click content you can handle, growing mindshare that isn't contaminated with the stink of 'Android', and genuine technical superiority over the market monolith in a few areas.

This is going to be an extremely popular lineup.

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Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires by MartinCron on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:58PM (#4486200)

Distinct accounts, parental controls and child-friendly features seem like an excellent (overdue) addition to tablet computing. I can limit how much time they play games and give them unlimited time to read books? I can watch degenerate garbage at night and not have that show up in their "continue watching" the next morning. That's pretty damn cool.

I hope that this pressures other providers (hello Netflix!) to start offering services like this.

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Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires by Achshar on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:23PM (#4486041)

I am not sure if Kindle can be considered a "tablet". There is no media consumption possible on it except for text.

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Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires by loganfrederick on Thursday September 06, 2012 @04:35PM (#4486109)

The Kindle Fire and its descendants are tablets with web browsing, app stores, games, etc based off of Android.

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Re:Amazon shows off new 7-inch and 8.9 inch Kindle Fires by abhimishra on Thursday September 06, 2012 @05:29PM (#4486370)

Yes, but $69 is for a regular e-ink Kindle. The tablets don't start until $159.

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