Amazon Kindle Fire HDX: New Tablets at lowest price - Stuttgarter Zeitung

Stuttgart – For months, rumors about new iPad models, which is supposed to imagine Apple later this fall on the Internet. The new iPad will be thinner and lighter, the iPad mini finally get a retina display. And even if Google is apparently already the next Tablet of the Nexus range planning in order to attract new users for the Android community.

Amazon Kindle Fire refreshes the series on

The U.S. company Amazon, which strongly mixes together now with its own hardware and its own ecosystem on the tablet market, presented on Wednesday morning with the new Kindle Fire HDX models ever before. These come in a 7-inch and 8.9-inch version – with optional Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi and LTE – to the market. Compared with the previous models, thanks to this strong 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 800 should be about three times as fast.

HDX Kindle Fire with 7 inch has a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels (323 ppi pixel density), a front camera for video calling, Dolby audio and eleven hours of battery life. If you use the tablet for reading only, should it even be up to 17 hours.

the 8.9-inch version, the screen resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels (339 ppi pixel density). In addition to the front camera fitted Amazon also an 8-megapixel camera on the back. The battery life is about an hour over that of the smaller model.

When the internal memory of each buyer can choose between 16, 32 and 64 GB.

Amazon’s all-inclusive strategy

A look at the features of the new Kindle Fire HDX models revealed this Amazon’s strategy to inspire all possible buyers for its own ecosystem.

for business customers was the Kindle Fire HDX, VPN integration, Exchange support, secure wireless connection and wireless printing with software encryption. Parents can specify how long the coming day may use the tablet thanks to “Kindle Free Time.” Those who want can even create a profile for each child that determines what content should be consumed and which are not.

The new “Mayday” button creates problems immediately connect to Amazon support who can help you remotely – 365 days a year. Especially tablet newcomers can be facilitated as the entry.

Solid hardware, cheap prices

Amazon’s main focus was never the Kindle Fire Series on the devices themselves, but rather on the content that the user acquire followed in the online store of the U.S. group. For this reason, the two new Kindle Fire HDX models are considering the hardware quite inexpensive: the 7-inch version is sold in the U.S. for 229 U.S. dollars (169 euros), the 8.9-inch version for 379 U.S. dollars (280 euros).

For comparison, Apple’s iPad mini only begins at 329 euros. The iPad at 499 euros.