Amazon Kindle Fire officially released for $ 199

Amazon, the online retail world's largest, has officially announced the Kindle Fire with computer retail price only $ 199, half the price than Apple iPad the cheapest of the 499 USD level.

Fire tablets of Amazon Kindle good value to compete with the iPad?

Many expect the release date

Fire Amazon Kindle is equipped with 7 inch screen is enhanced equipment from e-book reading device Kindle reader's platform and runs on Google's Android operating system.
In his speech introducing the device, its CEO, Jeff Bezos, Kindle Fire is believed that one of the tablet PC market dominated board in the future and can pose a real challenge for the iPad Apple, especially after rival Hewlett-Packard and Research In Motion is showing signs of retreat.

Apple CEO, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle Fire in hands on introduction

According to Brian Blair, an analyst at Wedge Partners Corp, believes that sales of electronic books, movies and music on Amazon's online store to purchase through Fire Kindle may help offset the small profits from low prices that the company has made.
Blair said: "Tablet of the Amazon really has the potential compared to other tablets because of the infrastructure that the company owns. If you look at Amazon's product, none of the other tablets currently on the market can meet a large media content such as multimedia devices. "

Configuration is not high

Kindle Fire is not equipped with a camera or microphone. Instead this device provides Wi-Fi connection but do not support access to 3G. Users get 30 days free use of Amazon Prime service, advanced services, the company's subscription costs 79 USD / year, including video streaming and free shipping buy on Amazon devices in time 2 days.
Amazon has drawn on the rough surface of the Android operating system a fresh interface and easy to use, allowing the device can connect to a vast library of online book content, movies, magazines and music Amazon's growing.
Amazon Kindle Fire use dual-core processor is TI OMAP clock 1 GHz, 8 GB of storage space in memory, IPS screen with wide glass bearing Gorilla Glass 7 inch for resolution 1024 x 600 pixels.
Equipment size 190 x 120 x 11.4 mm and weighs 413 grams. Users can fully charge the batteries within 4 hours and can be recharged via USB connection to your computer. Additionally, Kindle Fire also offers microUSB port (but the lack of expandable memory card slot).
Really, with a 7 inch screen, users of Kindle Fire still poses a question mark about the feasibility of whether or not the Kindle Fire are formidable opponents for the iPad. Because the current trend of users seem to prefer a 10.1 inch screen than a small-screen limitations.

Reaction from the market

The analyst said that the new Fire Kindle may help Amazon's revenue was up more next year, an estimated increase of 32% to 64.6 billion USD in 2012. But if in the worse direction, Amazon may be disappointed if your tablet does not bring in revenue quickly.
Analysts predict the average total return of the Amazon tablet will reach 22.17% in 2012. Gross margin as a percentage of sales left after subtracting the cost of production equipment.

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According to Steve Weinstein, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, said that if not successful this year, investors hope that the market will grow Kindle Fire in 2012 actually.
It is known that Apple iPad began selling in April 2010 and iPad 2 was introduced in March this year. Devices with touch screens of Apple owns the display 9.7 inch wide and is considered the largest source of revenue after Apple's iPhone. As of 25 / 6, Apple sold 9.25 million iPad, a pretty impressive numbers in just over a year.
Apple is also market leader in mobile applications with more than 425,000 applications available, including more than 100,000 applications are designed for iPad.

In very difficult

Although widely expected but Amazon certainly will not forget the fall of the two opponents are considered potential kicked iPad dominance in the launch of RIM PlayBook is introduced in the second quarter and of HP TouchPad.
While sales only reached 200,000 PlayBook equipment, less than half that predicted by analysts, the TouchPad is worse than death when HP in August about a month after launch.

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It should be noted further that, the software maker in the world, Microsoft, has not officially released the Windows operating system for tablet PCs, at least will only become available in the following year.
According to IDC, the iPad account for 68% of the tablet is sold worldwide in the second quarter, while Motorola Mobility and Samsung share the same 27% of tablet sold.