HDX Kindle Fire, Amazon attacks the iPad: Bezos focuses on power, and low cost hd - The Republic

Affordable prices, reliability and hardware completely renovated to the third generation of tablet company. I waited for months, thinner and lighter, depart from the books to be open to all kinds of functions. Putting increasingly targeted the tablet of Cupertino. New life for the Fire 7 inch HD. And there is also the key for emergencies SIMONE COSIMI

OBVIOUSLY traditional publishing Jeff Bezos has not distracted from the front hi-tech. In fact, Amazon has just introduced three new products: the Kindle Fire HDX 7 and 8.9 inches and a regenerated Fire 7 inch HD. A major update, expected for months, the line of tablet pointing straight to the comparison with the iPad. On the other hand, with the Apple device, the Kindle Fire is already the top-selling in the U.S.. Focusing on reliability, price, and now also technological level. The newborns feature an extra letter in the name, compared to previous models of the giant Ecommerce to Seattle, but they hide a revolution hardware. Finally transforming the brand symbol eReader into a strong competitor to 360 degrees. HDX 8.9-inch Kindle Fire. It goes from UltraHD display (2560×1600 pixels resolution for a density of 339 ppi) to 800 Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 2.2 GHz with Adreno 330 GPU and 2 GB of Ram. Nexus 7 is warned. The largest model – magnesium unibody enclosure with rounded back and new arrangement of the keys – also boasts an 8-megapixel rear camera, not to mention the diet to which he was subjected: it weighs 32% less than its predecessor, even 400 grams. It is not enough: in addition to wi-fi connectivity and that LTE – better known as 4G – the big brother of the pair provides up to 12 hours of use, which goes up to 18 if you pull the brake and the device is only used as e-book reader. Prices: $ 379 (16 GB), 429 (32 GB) and 479 (64 GB) Wi-Fi only version. To serve the LTE $ 100 more. From November 14.

Kindle Fire 7-inch HDX. The 7-inch version, however, while sharing many of the specifications has a lower resolution (1920×1200 pixels) and a single frontare camera in HD. Even lighter (about 300 grams), has a range just minor. For the rest, does not differ much from the piece de resistance. Prices: $ 229 (16 GB), 269 (32 GB) and 309 (64 GB), but only as wi-fi. Even in this case, $ 100 extra for 4G. From October 18 for the moment only in the United States, as the other.

FireOS 3.0 Mojito. As for the operating system, the new tablets are equipped with the 3.0 version of FireOS, this time renamed Mojito: a deep customization of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. There are many features desired by the juggernaut of commerce on the Web: from Prime Instant Videos to download and update all apps, X-Ray for Music, to read the text of the song that you are listening but also recognize the songs of films and TV series. About screens: thank Miracast you can also see the contents of a compatible TV, a little ‘style Apple’s AirPlay. Retired also great icons with which we had to confront: makes its debut in the Amazon home grid view, just like on the iPad and other tablets.

Emergency technique to the cloud . Among the many curiosities of the new Kindle Fire HDX is undoubtedly the Mayday button: a button Technical support is available every day 24 hours 24. By pressing this kind of alarm will appear in a video consultant can, if necessary, to take over the tablet and solve problems while doing another. “You a unique service – said Bezos – it feeds a full enormous cloud system and customer service Amazon. No longer will we scare of our devices.” And if you do not want to be disturbed while reading – at the bottom of the focus remains on the books essential – just activate the option “Quiet time” to make out any kind of notification. There is even, for lovers of “social reading”, the integration with the platform Goodreads.
New life to Kindle Fire HD 7 inch. In addition to the two brand new products, Amazon has also tweaked the Kindle Fire 7 inch HD putting the turbo in terms of hardware and giving him a new body. In the first case with a dual-core 1.5 GHz, in accordance with a display with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and Mojito as the operating system. But, if you go into a panic, nothing Mayday button. The nice thing is the price: $ 139, 60 less than the basic version.

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