Ever since Amazon first unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet, its devices have broken barriers and price offered to compelling alternatives to more -expensive iOS devices. While the exact attractiveness of These tablets has always depended on whether or not you were plugged into Amazon’s ecosystem, they’ve been a popular alternative, Particularly if you do not want Google hoovering up every scrap of your personal information. Unfortunately, That may be about to change.
When the $ 50 Fire tablet debuted in few weeks ago, its many shortcomings and problems were balanced by its $ 50 price tag. When a tablet costs about as much as dinner and a movie date night, you can expect That it’s going to compromise. The Fire HD 10, on the other hand, has a number of problems of its own – only this time, it’s debuting at $ 229, not $ 50. Already There are multiple reviews of the tablet online, and all of them bring up to series of common problems:
It’s slow: Everyone mentions this. The Fire HD 10 is based on MediaTek’s MT8135 SoC, Which packs two Cortex-A15 cores and a pair of Cortex-A7 cores in a big.LITTLE configuration. Amazon calls this a quad-core, Which verges on false advertising (but one that’s scarcely unique to Amazon or MediaTek). It’s clocked at 1.5GHz (A15) and 1.2GHz on the A7 cores, Which means it does not bring much in the way of clock speed to the table, either. The chip is comparatively old, lacks 64-bit support, and is underpowered for a tablet. The Tegra 4, for example, packed four Cortex-A15 cores at 1.9GHz. Smartphones like the Galaxy S4 used arrays of four Cortex-A15 chips, not just two. In short, this is not enough for a tablet in 2015, and the bottom end 6 Series GPUs (G6200) helps nothing, either.
Amazon may be portatili fix some issues with patches, but I doubt they can change the nature of the problem. This is what happens when you use tech in 2012 from a low-end SoC device manufacturer in 2015.
The screen is second-rate: Historically, Amazon has offered tablets with a good mixture of resolution and screen size. Its very first Kindle Fire, released in 2011, had a 169 PPI. The Kindle HD family (or Fire HD) have always bounced between 216 and 254 PPI, up until now. The Kindle HD 8 has a 189 PPI screen and the Kindle HD 10 has a 149 PPI screen. No, it’s not illegible, but every review written thus far points out That content is fuzzy at the edges. Amazon’s response to large-screen tablets from Microsoft, Apple, and other vendors Has Been to release its lowest-quality (in terms of pixel visibility) display ever.
It exists to sell you things: Every version of the Kindle Fire / Fire Existed family has to sell you things, at least to some extent. Amazon has Always Been That up-front the point of These devices is to hook you deeper into the Amazon ecosystem. Mashable reports That the new FireOS 5 devotes much more screen space to trying to sell you content, including pop-over ads That Appear while you’re reading existing content. Seems to be the general consensus That while FireOS 5 Organizes your existing libraries blackberries effectively and is pleasant to use, it anche spends a lot of energy and tossing ads “You might also like ..” at reader. Laptop Noted That Amazon tried to sell him different versions of a book he owns Already, three separate times.
Flameout
Thus far, no one is seriously recommending the Fire HD 10. Laptop notes “A chintzy design, low-resolution display, lackluster cameras, and sluggish performance make the Amazon Fire 10 feel less than the sum of its parts.” Fortune writes “the Fire HD 10′s middling performance and low-resolution screen serves as stark reminders That you get what you pay for. “Mashable is the only review site to draw in even tenuously positive conclusion.
When Amazon blew the fire phone launch, most industry analysts wrote it off as a once-off mistake from a company That had served up years of hits. This is the third mediocre hardware platform Amazon has Launched in the past 12 months, and the second to Set a price point that’s completely unattractive given its feature in September We do not know who’s making These calls, but it looks like Amazon is trying to coast on past achievements rather than continuing to offer a midrange Android platform worth buying.
Not all products are able to meet the needs of each person. This is why Apple offers iPhone size now “small” and now “large”. And why Amazon is trying to fill the gaps in their tablet Kindle Fire , both in form and in size. Enough to try now with Kindle Fire HD 10 .
Although not a high-end tablet like the Fire HDX 8.9 but not even a real low-end model like the Kindle Fire HD 6 to $ 99, the new home device Amazon is balanced perfectly between the two predecessors.
The device, in fact, offers a larger screen; and that’s what customers want and look for in a product that stands in the price range of $ 229.99 (about 200 Euros). The new Kindle Fire HD 10, therefore, comes as a device lighter than an iPad Air and with an elegant widescreen. It is also very simple to use and the graphic content and entertainment applications.
In addition to the Amazon logo on the back of the device, based on Android 5.0 Lollipop, seems completely foreign to tablets HDX, design slightly tilted forward and a bit ‘smaller size. Finally, the edges are not dynamic, which means they are completely devoid of physical buttons.
This new device also becomes part of a new line of low-cost . The one that includes all the widescreen devices that are launched on the market with different colors, such as orange, blue and pink. But the flagship model, if it can be defined, is released in the classic colors of black and white.
No one product can be all things to all people, that’s the point of variety. It’s why Apple now has multiple sized iPhones and iPads and why Amazon continues to try filling in the gaps on its Kindle Fire tablet lineup with an increasingly eclectic lineup of shapes and sizes.
The new Kindle Fire HD 10 is of a piece with That strategy. It’s not a high-end tablet like the Fire HDX 8.9 and not a truly a low-end model like the $ 99 Kindle Fire HD 6. Instead, the new device sits somewhere in the middle, offering consumers want the larger screen with a $ 229.99 price blackberries can manage. It’s $ 244.99 without sponsored lock screens.
The problem is I do not really like it.
There is nothing ostensibly wrong with the tablet. It’s sleek, thin (0.30-inches), lighter than an iPad Air (by blackberries than one ounce), shiny (slippery), has a nice widescreen and is quite adept at content consumption and entertainment. However aside from the side-smiling Amazon logo on the back, the Lollipop Android 5.0-based device looks completely unrelated to Amazon’s forward-leaning and somewhat smaller HDX tablet devices.
It is a part of a new line of low-cost devices widescreen That as in Day-Glo colors like orange, blue and pink. This largest model, though, only comes in black or white.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10′s back is shiny black plastic. It does not feel cheap, but is pretty slippery.
Image: Mashable, Jhila Farzanzeh
These new tablets eschew the design language Amazon Introduced with the HDX – no dynamic edges, no physical buttons on the back (they’re on the edge like most other tablets). And while the HDX offers a 4: 3 aspect ratio, the new tablets, including this 10.1-inch one, opt for a 16: 9 screen. The result is something That is so wide and relatively narrow it’s almost unwieldy. Stand it on its narrow edge and it looks like the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey .
Whatever works
When Amazon first introduced the HDX line, I applauded the edgy design. It stood out and offered some utilities, like Ensuring That the downward-firing speakers had enough room to bounce sound off the table and back to you. Amazon did not update the HDX this year and now Seems fixated on capturing a lower-end market with the revamped Fire HD line.
The radical differences between the HDX line and the growing HD one Indicates a lack of commitment to one ideal design. Look at Apple, to Their tablets look alike. That’s good for consumers and, probably, good for Apple since they’re dealing with design differences less than with size considerations.
The lack of commitment goes deeper than design.
Hope you did not like the carousel too much. Amazon dropped the interface metaphor in its Fire OS 5.
Image: Mashable, Jhila Farzaneh
Since the first Amazon Fire HD, Amazon’s then forked Android interface has featured a unique and useful for managing carousel recently accessed apps and content. It was not perfect, but stood as a signature element.
In recent years, Amazon has shifted to them to more Android-like interface , while Maintaining the carousel. Fire OS 5.0, though, Which is built on top of Lollipop, is the closest Amazon has come to a stock Android implementation. It’s anche discarded the carousel, the back arrow and even the virtual home button That Used to look like a little house (while you were in an app, you could slide your finger on the screen from edge to make it Appear). In its place is the standard Android 5.0 home circle, back caret app switcher and square.
All subtlety is gone from the interface. Instead of a list of content and activity categories at the top, the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 Fire running OS 5 features big, all-cap labels That You swipe through. This actually works rather well. There is also, on the home screen, a grid of apps installed That will be familiar to Kindle HD and Android aficionados.
Amazon knows a lot about what you like and is always ready to show you more stuff you can buy.
What the new interface excels at is revealing just how much Amazon knows about your buying and content consumption habits. Much more of each screen is devoted to showing you content you might like based on previous choices. Even while you’re in the content, the Kindle Fire HD 10 will suggest new content. This happened to me as I was finishing the second volume of Batman: Knightfall . The system astutely suggested I buy the third and final volume. I just wish it did not do it three or four times.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 features Fire OS 5 and the latest edition of Amazon’s e-mail client.
anche Amazon has updated its proprietary Silk browser. It’s cleaner and, in my tests, faster than ever. The email client looks sharp, but I do not understand why they put the email icon composed in such a random position. You’ll find it at the bottom right of the email subject column.
The guts
As a mid-tier tablet, the Kindle Fire HD 10 is an unpleasant mixture of average and sub-par performance. Amazon says they packed it with a quad-core CPU running at 1.5GHz (dual-core) and 1.2GHz (dual-core), but the performance Often stuttered, especially every time I hit the home button and waited for the tablet to return me to the home screen. Performance was better Within apps. Geekbench gave it to 774 single core performance number and 1502 multicore (appears That to the Kindle HDX’s 1024 single core and 2974 multicore numbers).
The 1,280 x 800 HD display looks good, but is nothing special. It definitely took some getting used to the 16: 9 screen size. It was fine for widescreen movies and even some games like the side-scrolling Badlands , but truly odd When you read a Kindle book on it in portrait mode (landscape with multiple pages on one screen made sense blackberries) . Text, by the way, Looked sharp, but graphic novels were kind of fuzzy.
The cameras run from average to terrible. The 5-megapixel rear one takes decent photos (and 1080p videos), but virtually any smartphone on the market can do better. The front-facing room managed to take some pretty awful shots, though its 720p video is fine for Skype video.
Content is king
Where the Kindle Fire HD 10 does shine is, to be honest, where Amazon shines, in content and access to its growing list of services. The experience is especially good if you are paying to Amazon Prime member.
Amazon’s Word Runner is a nice speed-reading tool.
Amazon continues to experiment with ways to make reading better, if not more fun. The latest twist is reading the aptly called Word Runner. It’s a built-in speed-reading interface for the Kindle Reader app That shows you one word at a time. It starts slowly and gradually speeds up (still slowing down a bit tougher on words) Unless you hold the screen to, in essence, hit the brakes. I’ve been experiencing single-word speed reading tools since I was in grade school I know I kind of enjoyed this. Not sure why Amazon hid it under an inconspicuous menu That you can only access by tapping the screen. That same menu has X-Ray for Kindle reader and Word Wise, Which shows definition hints about challenging words.
You also have access to Amazon’s movie rental and purchase library. Prime members get Amazon Prime Video, Which includes free streaming movies and TV shows as well as original shows like recent Emmy winner Transparent . Amazon even lets you download movies and watch them in a 48-hour offline window. I tried this out with Hercules . It took around 20 minutes to download over Wi-Fi, but then I was portatili watch it on the train without being connected to the Internet. When the 48-hour window expired, I had to connect to the Internet to continue watching my local copy. I hope Netflix considers adding this option.
Video Amazon Prime offers you a 48 hour viewing window for offline content.
One of my favorite features is still X-Ray, Which, When You pauses in TV show or movie, will give an overlay window with details about the actors in the scene you’re watching. It’s the ultimate trivia tool.
Movies and TV shows look quite good on the widescreen and the stereo speakers pump out a surprising amount of sound .
Games play well enough, though I’m Often frustrated by the action game choices in the Amazon store. Asphalt 8: Airborne, for instance is gone, but I can find the terrible knockoff High Speed Racing: Racing Need .
At through more than $ 100 savings over other comparable-sized tablets, the 16GB (upgradeable to 128GB through a microSD slot) $ 229.99 Kindle Fire HD 10 is a decent deal. Anche Amazon is the only one offering free, on-device, live support in the form of Mayday Screen Sharing.
Still, I can not recommend it, not When there are so many other better-designed and more powerful tablets on the market, including Amazon’s own HDX line. Will you pay blackberries? Definitely. Tablets, though, are something we tend to buy and keep. Skimp now and you will regret it for years to come.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10
The Good
Thin • Light • Big Screen • Excellent content consumption platform • Great price
The Bad
Too Wide • Design is average • No carousel • Average performance
The Bottom Line
The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 stands out for its price, size and content offerings, but average performance and loss of distinctive features makes it less desirable than it Should b.
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Amazon launched the next generation of its devices to read books. We tried Kindle Voyage, to see if it is better than its predecessors. And we found that …
Background In 2007, the year when Apple launched the first iPhone, Amazon has the duty ‘ ebook. He did, remember for the young, with the first generation of Kindle. At the time, tools really revolutionary and today undoubtedly belong to a new, unprecedented category of “modernism”. Slow, large, strange, yet still absolutely compatible with the contents that can lead, that is, the e-book.
Amazon had married for the first idea that serve paper and ink “digital” (already more , especially starting from Sony, had put in bridge similar activities with these technologies eInk and ePaper) and you could feed the industry. Had bought technologies born at Palm / Handspring, ie the format “prc” turned definitively in “.mobi”, and created the chain of ebook that we all know. Of course, we now know that the idea of Jeff Bezos was basically good and would work, but in 2007 he was living above the Amazon’s ability to sell books “physical” and deliver them with its bigger and sharpened chain of integrated logistics.
The new Kindle Voyage, flagship of the ebook reader from Amazon
Think about moment: a distributor of Italian books probably would have tried to use all its resources to prevent even the possibility of the eBook, both from a legal point of view that economic and fiscal, for fear of seeing the collapse of its traditional business making eating competition from digital. Amazon has instead decided to take out the competition Digital beating it at its own game and put her feet in the largest ebook store, automatically resizing all other possible competitors. Different styles.
This long introduction to say, the story of the eBook reader from Amazon (Kindle understood as the hardware) intersects with a product strategy (e-books) and services (the catalog of e-books) for nothing trivial or daughter’s case. The system consists Kindle so more “divisions”: the catalog / service, is the reader hardware, but also the app to be installed on phones, tablets, computers and even to use the browser. Why, after creating a reader owner and very good for reading but virtually useless for any other purpose, Amazon did not want to run the risk that manufacturers of smartphones and tablets could overtake (in the long run, the use of specialized equipment are absorbed in those “generalists”) and has made the app to prevent someone else did by putting it out of action in that segment.
Then Amazon has also sought to expand in two directions: tablet (Fire) and phone . With the phone for now it went very badly, while the tablet is not yet said and if is still playing (see the last, very economic model just launched) because the tablet is used in synergy rather than with books or games especially with movies and TV series, of which Amazon has a nice library and a user base. The Kindle hardware, however, remains an ideal tool for anyone who wants to read a book and that’s it.
Ok, and after realizing what a Kindle reader, let’s see how they work.
Before Voyage Amazon has created several generations of his readers, every 12-16 months. The good thing for those who bought the first generation is that, unlike the smartphone, the compatibility with the contents is virtually absolute. An ebook released today from Amazon you can load and read easily even on the first generation device. If anything, what changes is the screen resolution and its characteristics “organic”.
The first-generation Kindle was launched in late 2007 for $ 399 and was sold in no time. This was followed by a second generation of both the US and internationally. The first generation of equipment was rather angular forms, systems adventurous to turn the page, even a vertical strip that visually showed how far it had come by reading (a kind of “pillar” of the thermometer). Already the second (that discovery in Italy) was much softer and interesting. Amazon also created the dark version (anthracite called “graphite”) and especially the DX (white and graphite) with a 6-inch screen not only but also by 9.7 inches.
With the new version of OS Fire presented a few days ago along with the next-generation tablet Kindle Fire, called “Bellini”, Amazon introduced several innovations, both from the point of view graph functional. If talking about aesthetics are a launcher very similar to what we mean by Android, from a functional standpoint were introduced some gems, such as the feature Kindle Word Runner.
It allows to increase the speed reading an e-book despite using a tablet and not an e-book reader. Kindle Word Runner essentially consists in showing a word at a time in rapid sequence in a succession of phrases and sentences. Some studies have actually shown that this (some other services already offer a similar feature) improves our reading.
By placing in Kindle Word Runner, Then we discover that in the presence of punctuation or difficult words or long, the app automatically slows the speed of appearance and disappearance of the words. All the while improving the user experience.
A very interesting thing is that, although the feature is advertised only in relation to the new Kindle Fire, Kindle Word Runner is also present in the application Kindle for Android. If this is the positive side, the downside is that when the function in question is designed only for ebook in English.
Anne Mangen, a researcher from Norway’s Stavanger University conducted a study in cui she wanted to know if there were differences in understanding a given text Which was read on Kindle, or paperback. In the study, 50 subjects had to read a short story by Elizabeth George, half read it on your Kindle, the other half on paperback. After the reading session, several tests were Conducted upon the reader to find out if they understood the aspects of the story.
The tests revealed That the Kindle reader performed equally well at understanding the text, except When it comes to timing the story’s events. The Kindle reader were much worse in placing 14 story events in the correct order, than the traditional book readers. “When you read on paper you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right, you have the tactile sense of progress, in addition pcs to the visual,” Mangen said.
“The differences for Kindle reader might have something to do with the repute the fixity of a text on paper, and this very gradual unfolding as you progress through a story, is some kind of a sensory offload, supporting the visual sense of progress when you’re reading. Perhaps this somehow aids the reader, providing blackberries fixity and solidity to the reader’s sense of unfolding and progress of the text, and hence the story, “added Anne Mangen.
This Particular study had only two experienced Kindle reader and the researcher wants to expand it to more “advanced” Kindle users to see how the results will change. Anche she leads a research network of empirical studies, based in Europe to investigate the effects of digitization on text reading. “We need to Shops provide research and evidence-based knowledge to publishers on what kind of devices (iPad, Kindle, print) Should be used for what kind of content; what kinds of texts are Likely to be less hampered by being read digitally, and Which might require the support of paper. That will be very interesting to explore, “Concluded Mangen.
Amazon discounts the last Kindle Paperwhite 20 € and makes the e-book reader with screen 300 PPI cheapest on market. Until September 7, Kindle Paperwhite 3 (2015) is on sale for € 110, shipping included in the version with special offers. The configuration with integrated 3G – and free for purchases and downloads of books – now costs 170 €.
For those who prefer to buy in physical stores, there is a chain Euronics Butali with Paperwhite still 3 to 110 Euros from now until August 27 to September 13. All this comes as Kindle Touch, the model that is the basis of the offer Amazon, back to cost 70 € after a long time off. The spread between the two is reduced to EUR 40 (previously EUR 70) and inevitably towards the purchase of the most advanced player.
It is to understand what will Kobo. His Glo HD led the high resolution in the midrange, and has Early Edition a couple of months. But now, without a 129 € (or so), it needs a new positioning to return to compete. Nothing new, however, Kindle Voyage : The top of the line costs 190 Euros – despite rumors on the arrival of a new model.
Among the new Fire OS 5 “Bellini” is a software called Word Runner . Amazon will supply installed in the new tablet Fire HD 8 and HD 10 Fire, Fire in the 60 euro next to the Italian distribution, and in the app Kindle for Android. Word Runner is a method for the fast reading that can be applied to ebooks. Uses the method known as RSVP – Rapid Serial Visual Presentation and, in short, shows one word at a time in a series of phrases and sentences.
Word Runner is still different from the software which already offer similar approaches (and there are several, including opensource: OpenSpirtz) because it adds functionality called Dynamic Pacing and Brake .
The first , use a algorithm to slow the speed exchange word at points, commas, long and difficult terms. Is therefore not a linear sliding but fluid, which in theory should help a lot of readers. Brake, however, allows to block scrolling with a simple tap on the screen, and back going over word for word to the point that you want to read. Word Runner also integrates a system of statistics and competition awarding marks at the end of a chapter or of a book, with the possibility of social sharing.
There is a ‘innovative idea but a refinement perhaps unknown to many readers probably useful in certain contexts. It is not a tool for “strong readers” and technical reasons that make compatible with Kindle eReader (the E-Ink screen would not be able to follow a refresh rate so high) are there to confirm it. Too bad not yet have information on compatibility with ebook language Italian. Amazon specifies that it is a feature designed to ebooks Inglese-language, but we will investigate and we will let you know.
Amazon is preparing to renew its range of tablet Kindle. According to recent rumors in fact the giant e-commerce would be ready to return to the market with force through the introduction of a new 10-inch Kindle Fire . The arrival of the tablet has already been predicted on two occasions: first of all by former serial leaker (which now seems to be back in business with continuity) Evan Blass, known under the name of his Twitter account evleaks . Blass posted to your account in question has in fact what seems to be an image to be informed of the device.
From the render would seem that the device can be equipped with a new version of Fire OS , the operating system based on Amazon to Google, and that would be revisited in a more modern and closer to the original Android interface Lollipop 5.1. The elements on the new Kindle Fire, however, do not end with the image above, because the tablet would also visited the site of benchmark GFX Bench , thus making known what could be the technical characteristics.
Analyzing then own the Specifications we see that the display of the new Kindle Fire should be a 10-inch 1280 x 800 resolution and support for up to 5 fingers gesture used simultaneously. Continuing we should then find a MediaTek MT8135 processor Quad-Core 1.5 GHz flanked by Imagination Technologies PowerVR graphics card Rogue G6200. As regards, the memory should be 1 GB of RAM with 16 GB of internal storage (at least in the version that has been cataloged). Listed also the camera, which would be 0.9 MP internally and externally in the main sensor 5 MP with flash and HRD.
Of course also present various features such as accelerometer, gyroscope, Bluetooth connectivity and Wi-Fi, while as previously it seems to lack the cellular network. Unfortunately no information has been provided about the possible release date of the device, as well as for the price could have the same, even though according to the specifications given should be a mid-range tablet.
Not only tablet ultraeconomici, but also the largest model ever. This seems to boil in the cauldron Amazon , and shortly after having been unveiled as the model will be $ 50, we now see the first image of an original Kindle Fire 10 “.
In return it is the well-known evleaks , but not seasoned render with any specific, so take everything with more skepticism than usual, because he sometimes is mistaken.
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As for the design of the tablet itself, we can only note that all of the buttons (power and volume) are placed at the top, and the back is more flat compared to the previous version of Kindle Fire.
No information on the price, that Amazon could maybe try to make particularly low, not having worked hard (apparently) on the design. If something is true, we suppose we’ll know soon.
According to the latest rumors, Amazon will launch its new tablet by the end of the month. What can we expect from the next Kindle Fire HD 7, 8, 10 and 12?
It should not be long to launch new tablet Amazon Kindle Fire , but unlike last year, it seems that the American company has decided to multiply models perhaps to recover losses from a fire phone. According to early rumors, or rather to the clues seeded online by certification bodies and benchmarks, Amazon is working on at least four new tablet will launch later this month . The names are not yet known, but we know acronyms and key specifications.
Amazon Kindle Fire from 50 $ We’re pretty sure this tablet will have a microSD card slot (and this is great news!), WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0, but GFX-Bench adds more specific in what could be the Kindle Fire cheaper than ever. It should have a 6.7-inch display (1024 x 600 pixels), 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, with MediaTek MT8127 SoC quad-core (Cortex A7) and Mali-450 graphics. On board two cameras 2-megapixel and 0.3-megapixel. And ‘interesting to note also the presence of Android 5.1 Lollipop, then probably the Amazon Fire tablet will run on OS 5.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8:10 For now know their codes: KFMEWI (Kindle Fire HD 8) with 8-inch screen with resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels and KFTBWI (Kindle Fire HD 10) with a diagonal 10-inch (1280 x 800 pixels). The rest of the hardware configuration is in common: both have an integrated SoC quad-core MediaTek MT8135 with two core Cortex-A7 1.2GHz for energy saving and two core Cortex-A15 1.5GHz for performance and configuration big.LITTLE graphics PowerVR G6200. On board also 1GB of RAM and 8-16GB of storage expandable, with two cameras 5 megapixel (rear) and 1 megapixel (front). 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and 4G / LTE (optionally) will be present, but not the ambient light sensor. Again, check the Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Amazon Kindle Fire Pro We only know that will have a 12-inch screen, manufactured by a Taiwanese company. We have no other information on its data sheet but, considering the size, we associate it with a Pro iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab / Note Pro 12.2.
opens the Amazon Kindle publishing platform car Scout to new countries, and among them there are all those in Europe. The reference is the English (you can still offer content in Italian, for example) but now also international users can vote and participate in the selection of manuscripts .
Kindle Scout is active from October 2014 in the United States. It is a program for self-publishing ebook , where users choose which content to reward and where Excluding the editor . It works this way: you send your manuscript to Amazon, you can free download a few pages for 30 days, expect the final grades and, if the community promoted him, you get the publication of the ebook via Amazon with a contract providing $ 1,500 in advance, 50% of sales, marketing support team via Amazon and facilitated to regain the full rights on the work.
For this writer, Kindle Scout ensures a quick and easy way to publish, the visibility that other platforms can not offer and immediate feedback from users. For the reader, Kindle Scout is a way as any to write reviews, with the taste to receive a copy of the ebook when it is voted one of the manuscripts and published (maximum 3 votes per user) and the feeling of reward a certain author actively participating in its success.
For Amazon eventually becomes the only certainty to publish content valued by users: all 75 ebook approved since the launch have been reviewed by at least 4 stars and a half, and among them one in particular, Eddie and Sunny Stacey Cochran, joined the Top 100 bestseller Kindle.
There are still the critical : Some believe that this mechanism “vote and approval” end to bring the authors to write only what users want to read rather than what they would like to write. There are several discussions and “vlog” network on the issue of contract that results. It would be interesting to see it applied in reality small as ours.
in the version with special offers. The configuration with integrated 3G – and free for purchases and downloads of books – now costs 170 €. 
According to the latest rumors, Amazon will launch its new tablet by the end of the month. What can we expect from the next Kindle Fire HD 7, 8, 10 and 12? 