Amazon Kindle Fire introduction

The Kindle Fire is a tablet version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire will have a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and run on a modified version of Google's Android operating system. It includes access to Amazon's app store, streaming movies and TV shows in addition to Kindle's e-books. It is scheduled to be released in mid November. The device will sell for US$199. Its external dimensions are 7.5" x 4.7". Excluding its external border the screen is a little larger than a 4x6 picture.

The Kindle Fire, on its launch, will run a customized Android 2.3 OS (Gingerbread) on a TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor . Though it will include 8GB internal storage - said to be enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books - it will not have expandable storage like a microSD slot provided by Nook Color. Connectivity options are limited to WiFi (b/g/n) and USB 2.0 (micro-B connector) and will not have 3G at launch time.

Besides access to Amazon Appstore, the Kindle Fire will include a cloud-accelerated "split browser" called Amazon Silk, free storage for all of the user's Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud, built-in email app that gets webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL etc.) into a single inbox and a free month of Amazon Prime (which includes unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 movies and TV shows and free two day shipping on millions of items) at the time of its launch.

Content formats supported are Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF,PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8. It does not support the standard EPUB book format used by Google Books and other publishers.

Developer	Amazon.com
Manufacturer	Foxconn
Generation	1st
Release date	November 15, 2011
Introductory price	$199 USD
Operating system	Android
CPU	TI OMAP 4 (dual core)
Storage capacity	8 GB[2]
Display	7" multi-touch gorilla glassdisplay, 1024×600 at 169 ppi, 16 million colors. Capacitive touch sensitive.
Connectivity	micro-USB 2.0 (type B) 3.5 mm TRRS
Dimensions	7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm)
Weight	413 grams (14.6 oz)

^{Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle_Fire}