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Yes, Amazon's Kindle Fire is a $199 Android tablet
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September 28, 2011

Yes, Amazon's Kindle Fire is a $199 Android tablet

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up Kindle Fire

By Wilson Rothman

Before Amazon's press event even started, the big news slipped out of the bag: The Amazon Kindle Fire will be a 7-inch Android tablet with a $199 price tag. Then Amazon's Jeff Bezos went on stage and unveiled it, showing off its movie playback capability and other media features.

As rumors had suggested, it is very reminiscent of the BlackBerry PlayBook, though the bezel looks a little narrower. It weighs 14.6 ounces, pretty much exactly the same as the BlackBerry Playbook. And as had been foretold, it's got a dual-core processor and a pretty nice custom interface. It does not look anything like a Google-authorized Android tablet.

The tablet will be available Nov. 15, but you can pre-order it now.

Bezos unveiled a new kind of Web browser called Amazon Silk, which weds the tablet to Amazon's cloud network. The browser gathers user behavior in order to predict where you'll go next, and caching that Web page in advance. If you always jump from msnbc.com to the tech/sci page, it will start loading it on the back end, so that it's quicker to load for you.

But Amazon engineers say not to worry about a whole new system. "It will seem like a traditional browser, just a lot better and a lot faster."

Full article: http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/28/8012112-yes-amazons-kindle-fire-is-a-199-android-tablet


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