Monday, May 6, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire is reportedly planning big - silicon.de

Amazon apparently wants to bring out a larger version of Kindle Fire. The tablet will have a very high resolution display with a diagonal of 10.1 inches, as News.com learned from DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim.

According to his information, is expected to 1600 pixels, which correspond to a pixel density of 300 pixels per inch (ppi) for the Amazon tablet a resolution of 2560 x. It would exceed that Apple’s iPad 4 with “retina display”, which reached 264 ppi, and with Google’s Nexus delay equal to 10, which also has 2560 x 1600 pixels.

Amazon had proved with his successful launch in November 2011, 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet, the existing demand for smaller and low-priced tablets – and with it began the boom in the 7-inch class. In November 2012 put it with another Kindle Fire with 8.9-inch diagonal after.

Mass production of Amazon’s 10-inch tablet to be launched in the third quarter, according to Shim. It is also estimated that Amazon will update the smaller models with the aim to bring all the displays at a pixel density of 300 ppi.

According to the latest figures from IDC Amazon occupied the fourth place in the tablet market, and could in the first quarter of this year, selling 1.8 million Kindle Fire. With a market share of 3.7 percent, it is still far behind Apple , Samsung and Asus back who already have 10-inch tablets on offer.

[With material by Brooke Crothers, News.com]

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