We are just three days away from the launch of Amazon’s new 7-inch tablet Fire 7 on June 29th, which will undoubtedly become the bestselling 7-inch tablet for the next year, unless Samsung launches a rival. The new Fire 7 still only has a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600, but now Amazon is launching a stylus for their tablets too. These stylus comes in packs of … more…
Amazon has started promoting Prime Day 2022, which is Amazon’s largest shopping days of the year, lasting for 48 hours from July 12th through July 13th in most of the countries where Amazon have set up shop: https://www.amazon.com/primeday Amazon’s won’t announce the majority of the deals in advance, since there will be a lot of Prime Day deals that will only go live for a few hours throughout the 48 … more…
Amazon has a Fire tablet sale going this week, which is ahead of Father’s Day on Sunday, June 19th: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TMJ1R3X The Fire tablets on sale includes all the models that have been launched already, but not the upcoming new Fire 7 which will launch on June 29th. But the predecessor is on sale, with the sales price of the previous Fire 7 being $39. As for the other Fire tablets, … more…
Amazon announced their new 7-inch tablet today, the Fire 7 2022 model which got some hardware upgrades, and a new starting price of $59. The release date is June 29, but it’s taking pre-orders today already: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B096WKKK2 The predecessor has been the world’s bestselling 7-inch tablet the last two years after it was unveiled on May 16, 2020, and the new Fire 7 2022 model has been upgraded enough to … more…
Amazon started the spring sale or Easter sale on all their own inhouse Fire tablets yesterday, which extends the list of preexisting April tablet deals. The Easter prices are $39 for the 7-inch Fire 7, $49 for the 8-inch Fire HD 8 and $59 for the Fire HD 8 Plus with wireless charging support, then $99 for the 10.1-inch Full HD 1920 x 1200 resolution Fire HD 10, or $119 … more…
Amazon announced the Amazon Glow on September 28 last year, which was launched as an invitation only at the time. But today Amazon announced the full launch of the interactive video calling device: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PY56LKV The price is $299 for the Amazon Glow, or $329 with the Tangram Bits. Amazon Glow isn’t just a regular video calling device with an 8-inch screen, but one with a built-in 19-inch projector that projects … more…
Amazon’s Fire HD 10 tablet has just gone on sale, together with all the different kids versions of the Fire tablets too, but not the regular 7-inch and 8-inch models. So could that indicate that Amazon is focusing on clearing out inventory of the 10.1-inch model in favor of an upcoming now model, since we discovered last week that Amazon does indeed have a new tablet in the works for … more…
I discovered yesterday that Amazon has a new tablet in the pipeline for 2022, and that it’s likely to launch soon. It showed up as a new FCC approved tablet computer, as model number P4N6AC. FCC leaks typically doesn’t reveal much, but what we have to go on so far is that it’s officially equipped with dual-band Wi-Fi 5. So with the lack of Wi-Fi 6, at least we know … more…
IDC released their quarterly sales estimates for tablet computers today, and their numbers are a little different from the Strategy Analytics tablet numbers that were published last week. Not only is Microsoft beaten by Huawei (with the Honor brand included), but by IDC’s estimates, total sales figures for tablets in 2021, were up by 3.2%, not down. IDC also estimates that Lenovo’s tablet sales numbers beat those of Amazon’s Fire … more…
Samsung keeps leaking new bits of information on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 tablets, and it may have started to backfire already as people may have become fatigued with the mix of accidental and deliberate leaks by Samsung. Now one of the Weibo leakers says that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 listing on Amazon Italy is authentic, although it doesn’t really reveal anything new in way of specs and … more…
It didn’t take more than three weeks into 2022 before Amazon kicked off the first tablet sale, with potential Amazon tablet customers being able to save up to 50% on these tablets today. All versions of the Fire tablets are on sale today through Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The sale starts with the 7-inch Fire 7 for $34, the Fire HD 8 for $44 with the wirelessly charging model … more…
Amazon has just added two new Fire tablet bundles for the Fire HD 8 and the Fire HD 10: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BX74H16 And that’s the new Fire tablet with Luna controller bundle, which adds up to something like a 20% discount when bought together. Luna is Amazon’s cloud gaming service, so one the benefits of having a Luna controller is even more direct access or easier access to the Luna game servers, … more…
In addition to announcing the Astro today, the first Amazon robot, Amazon also announced Amazon Glow, an interactive projector with a tablet display meant to bridge the gap between interaction and video calls. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DWNZQYM Amazon Glow will start as an invitation only, and will launch for $249 to the first customers, with the price going up to $299 thereafter. The concept isn’t entirely new. It has a few things in … more…
Amazon didn’t really join in with sales on tablets during Labor Day, but for a limited time they’ve decided to hold their own little post Labor Day sale on tablets instead: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FKR6KX So we now have all the Amazon Fire tablets on sale, with the Fire 7 from $39, the Fire HD 8 from $59, the Fire HD 8 Plus from $79, the 10.1-inch Full HD resolution Fire HD 10 … more…
After we got a price discounts on several of the best tablets on the market starting the past weekend, Amazon decided to join in on the tablet sales too. Starting today, all of the Fire tablets are on sale, starting at $39 for the 7-inch Fire 7, $59 for the 8-inch Fire HD 8 or $79 for the wireless charging Fire HD 8 Plus. Then the price is $99 for … more…