Amazon cuts price of Kindle Fire Solid HD - AreaMobile

Author: Bjoern Brodersen | 02/10/2013 – 09:53 |

Amazon has the price of its Kindle Fire tablet model HD massively reduced. This could be an indication that featured a week ago HDX new Kindle Fire tablet will be available with 7 or 8.9 inches in Germany shortly.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD | (c) AreaMobile

Amazon has lowered the price of the Kindle Fire HD in the 16-gigabyte version for 139 euros, the 32-gigabyte version of the 7-inch Amazon tablet now only costs 169 euros. The price reduction is 60 euros. Curiously, the Kindle Fire HD 16GB is therefore currently cheaper than its predecessor, Kindle Fire (159 EUR) with 8 gigabytes of storage. As another option, Amazon offers this country, nor the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with a larger screen, which costs 299 euros in the shop the online merchant with 16 gigabytes of storage and 269 euros with 32 gigabytes of storage capacity.

After the price reduction, the Kindle Fire HD 90 or 100 Euro cheaper than the new Nexus 7 of Google in the comparable wifi versions. However, the Google Nexus Tablet 7 after restoration in comparison with the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and the superior technical specifications on, runs on the latest version of Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and grants access to the Android ecosystem with apps, games and other content in Google Play. Although the operating system of the Amazon device is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but is the standard Android applications deprived of Google and only allows access to the app, content and service offerings from Amazon. According to the platform operator that includes over 22 million movies, TV shows, books, magazines, songs, tens of thousands of apps and games, the option to fee-based video-on-demand service LOVEFiLM and a huge selection of e-books.

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A week ago, Amazon has introduced Kindle Fire HDX its next-generation tablet. The units offered in 7-inch and 8.9-inch size are cheered by the strong 800 Snapdragon processor, have high-resolution screens and running with the Android-based 4.2 Jelly Bean OS version 3.0 Fire OS mojito. Besides the usual Wifi versions of the Kindle Fire HDX there will also be LTE-enabled versions. All new Amazon tablet called a “Mayday” button on board, which connects the users in video chat with a customer service representative of the manufacturer.

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