Amazon released the new Fire HD 8 last week, so we should take a look at what the performance of it is. Since this is an Amazon tablet, it runs the Fire OS 8 operating system, which is based on Android 11, but unlike additional user interfaces that most Android tablet manufacturers slap onto their tablets, the Fire OS is more like an OS in itself. And while it has … more…
Amazon have a small Octoberfest going for its own inhouse Fire tablets, with sales on all of them, including for the first time a sale on the new 7-inch model. The new Fire 7 is on sale for $44, which is the first time this $59 tablet has gone on sale. There are sales on the Fire HD 8 also for $44, but these sales are on the 2020 model … more…
Amazon, the company that popularized the e-reader launched the 11th generation Kindle today. This is the entry level e-reader with a price of $99, but it has seen some upgrades over the predecessors: https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-2022-release-high-resolution/ It starts taking pre-orders today and will launch and ship to buyers on October 12. Since this is a dedicated e-reader and not a tablet, it has a 6-inch glare free display with 16-level gray scale … more…
I discovered that Amazon has a new unannounced tablet in the works for launch this fall via today’s FCC listings, and this new Amazon tablet looks like a new 8-inch model. The FCC leaked specs only gives us so much to go on, but the approval papers specifies that this is an Amazon tablet, that’s been approved as both a regularly charging tablet and as a wirelessly charging tablet. (UPDATED: … more…
Now that Amazon has release the new Fire 7, their latest 7-inch tablet, it’s time to take a quick look at its performance. Since the 2022 model Fire 7 has both a faster and more efficient processor, as well as more RAM, it makes it correct for Amazon to state that the new model is 30% faster than the predecessor. It’s powered by a mostly similar ARM Cortex-A53 2.0 GHz … more…
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…