Mini Tablet: Amazon Kindle Fire 2 HD, photos, and specifications

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire 2 HD, photos, and specifications - WebNews

Published the first images of the new Kindle Fire HD 2 by 7 inches. You can see the new design and the different arrangement of the buttons on the frame.

Luca Colantuoni , September 11, 2013, 17:58

Into the next few days is expected to announce the Amazon Kindle Fire HD second generation with design and refurbished computer hardware, thus responding to the new Nexus 7 that Google unveiled in late July. Compared to existing models, the differences are immediately visible, although some details have been obscured by the source that sent the photos to the site BGR. There is also increased power with the Snapdragon processor 800, which replaces the previous chipsets from Texas Instruments.

Into The pictures show only the Kindle Fire HD 2 7-inch, but the 8.9-inch model is identical from the point of view of aesthetics. The chassis has been redesigned both in form and position of the individual buttons. The new Amazon tablet have a design more “edgy”, the pair of speaker has moved to t he upper part, while the volume and power buttons have been moved to the back of the frame.

Into The Kindle Fire HD 2 7-inch should integrate a quad core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 to 2 GHz , 2 GB of RAM and 16/32/64 GB of flash memory. The screen resolution is 1920 × 1080 pixels. The display of 8.9-inch model has a higher resolution (2560 × 1600 pixel). There is also an 8-megapixel rear camera, absent in the younger brother. The operating system is Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean , heavily customized by Amazon.

Gallery: Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2 pictures leaked

Into It also provided an update of the range Kindle Fire which should be available in three variants: 8, 16 and 32 GB. According to BGR, the Kindle Fire 7-inch HD 2 will be launched later this month, while the 8.9-inch model will have to wait until November.