Amazon’s ‘Kindle Fire’ Is Their 7-Inch Tablet. Sort of Swank.

Amazon has revealed their rumored, then confirmed behind the scenes, tablet. The Kindle Fire. Another non e-ink tablet I won’t be buying. Details? Get some.

Gizmodo:

Just incredible. Businessweek is reporting that the Amazon Kindle Fire will cost only $199! This is a killer price for a color tablet. Even while it doesn’t match the iPad’s features, there’s going to be some fierce competition this year.

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The right basic features
As the rumors pointed out, Amazon’s color tablet has a 7-inch 16-million color display. Like the iPad, it’s an IPS panel, which means it has a wide viewing angle and great color saturation. The resolution is pretty dense: 169 pixels per inch. It’s not comparable to the 326 pixels per inch of the small iPhone 4’s display, but it’s better than the iPad’s 132 pixels per inch. The screen is protected by Gorilla glass. It only weighs 14.6 ounces,

The Amazon Kindle Fire is powered by a dual core CPU and, of course, it has Wi-Fi. All syncing is invisible, wireless and in the background. Users don’t have to do updates of any kind. The viewing of content is seamless, meaning that if you are watching a movie on the train through Amazon’s cloud, it will pick it where you left it when you arrive home and turn on the TV.

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It doesn’t have cameras or microphone–so no videoconferencing–and no 3G connectivity. Personally, I never cared for those secondary features. It also only has 8 Gigabytes of memory but think of those gigabytes more as cache memory than anything else. This is a true cloud device, where your content lives on the web, and we already know that Amazon has that the cloud nailed. They are probably the best in that business at this point.

However! It doesn’t have the Apple logo. Therefore it’s null. Void. Won’t get you beaucoup points in Starbucks and the college campus.