Arrives in Italy the HDX Kindle Fire: price and size reduced - Leggo.it

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Into Alessio Caprodossi

From selling books online e-commerce giant idolized by startuppers around the world, Amazon continues to place a plot twist after another.
The last budget of the Seattle company reported a loss (expected) of 40 million and no profit for shareholders, more and more satisfied, however, the vision of Jeff Bezos, the creator of a constantly growing turnover in the last three months rose to 17 , 09 billion (+24% compared to 2012).
The expansion has no limit. “Our mission is to offer the best hardware at the lowest possible price,” says Alessio Santarelli, Kindle content manager. A philosophy indispensable, so that the price of the Kindle Fire HDX jaw-dropping. The new tablet in the 7-inch version and 16GB cost 229 euro, the 8.9-inch 369 EUR. Interesting numbers, especially when compared with the competition (Mini iPad 2 starts at 389 Euros and expects the new Google Nexus 8). Wonder if the dollar-euro exchange at par, the surprise becomes wonder for a tablet that combines an ultra high-resolution, 339 pixels per inch for the maxi and 323 ppi for the younger brother, with the Qualcomm chip Snapadragon 800 2.2 GHz , the best on the market. Lighter and thinner than the previous Fire (in price to 139 EUR), runs with Fire OS 3.0 – the latest version of the operating system based on Android Amazon and revised with the addition of cloud services – and incorporates new features such as Quick Switch for faster navigation between applications and content without going to the home screen and is devoted to productivity.
From the U.S. get rave reviews that reward display and autonomy, estimated at over ten hours with heavy use. Today begin deliveries in Italy, where there will be no real-time assistance MyDay, exclusive of the United States: “We want to follow the needs of customers and, despite not having reliable data, arrival is only a matter of time,” says Santarelli.