Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet Announced on Wednesday

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According to report from TechCrunch, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will show off the Kindle Fire at a special press conference in New York City on Wednesday. According from the report, Kindle Fire Tablet dubbed in order to differentiate it from the e-ink siblings that’ll sell beside of it, and it’s expect a shortchange amount of content deals to make it ever more attractive in a realm that iOS currently dominates. This tablet rumored to run a heavy modified version of Android and will be shipped in November. This Kindle fire Tablet will retail for $300 for Kindle Fire Tablet with Amazon Prime , while one without will released for $250. Amazon Prime itself is a membership service that offers perks like unlimited 2-day shipping and Amazon Instant Video for $79 per year. With all these budget point, it seems that this Kindle Fire tablet will be a contender for iPad and other Android tablets already hits the streets.

Kindle Fire Tablet will feature a 7-inch backlit display and it’s reportedly looks similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook. The reason for this is because it was designed by the same manufacturer – Quanta, instead of Amazon’s in-house team as a way of speeding up the development process for the upcoming holiday season. Kindle Fire Tablet will run with an OS based on Android 2.1, the mobile OS will have Amazon’s Android Appstore, which doesn’t feature all the apps available in Google’s Android Market, but Tech Crunch reports that Amazon is looking to recruit major app developer’s for Fire’s release. Kindle Fire Tablet will also equipped with a TI Tl dual-core OMAP chip, its video streaming service, and the Kindle bookstore.