I just ordered the Kindle Fire
to replace my original Kindle. Well, actually I pre-ordered it as it won’t ship until November 15, 2011. I love my Kindle, it’s the ipod of reading so i’m very excited to have what I already love but add the ability to stream movies and TV shows and surf the web if needed. Unfortunately the Kindle Fire only comes in a Wifi version but that keeps the price low at $199.99. Is the Kindle Fire an Ipad 2 killer? I’m not so sure but I do think it will sell extremely well and Amazon.com can expect existing Kindle customers to likely spend the money to upgrade to the Kindle Fire. More good news is that the original Kindle is down to a very reasonable $79 so sales of normal Kindle devices should skyrocket as we head into the holidays. This bodes VERY well for Amazon who has the best e-reader on the market and thus will capture a larger and larger share of the book marketplace.
So what can you do on the Kindle Fire? Well read books is obvious but now they are in color which can sometimes be handy when the book has any sort of graphics. In addition to a book library that makes your head spin, you’ll now have access to free and inexpensive movie and tv content. You can surf the web and if you already have Amazon Prime to get free 2 day shipping, you’ll also have free streaming of many videos and TV. Don’t forget you can also play games like Angry Birds on the Kindle Fire
just like you can on your iphone or PC. As if all these things weren’t enough you can check your email and with android apps to most anything you do on a smart phone.
The Kindle Fire
is 7.” weighs just over a pound and features 8GB of storage for your books, movies and applications. The battery will last up to 8 hours reading or playing video with the wifi turned off. You can recharge the Kindle Fire
in just 4 hours if needed. As far as what type of media or data files you can use on the device check out the list below. At just $199 I don’t see how you can go wrong owning a Kindle Fire.
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.