The 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is now available for purchase at Amazon.com and at big-box retailers including Best Buy and office supply chain Staples. Priced starting at $199 (16 GB of storage), the Kindle Fire HD features a 1,280 x 800-pixel HD display, Dolby audio, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, HD webcam for Skype calls, 11 hours of battery life, and streaming to movies and TV shows at Amazon Prime. Also available is an updated version of the existing Kindle Fire which is aggressively priced at $159. This non-HD model has 8 GB of storage, uses the same plastic shell and 7-inch display of the first-generation Kindle Fire but has 40% faster processor, twice the RAM (1GB), and longer battery life.
What Else You Need To Know
- Only the 16 GB version of the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is currently available; the 32GB version, priced at $249, will arrive October 25th.
- Amazon's new wave of Android tablet includes the high-end 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD, which won't be available until November 20th. The device has an entry-level price of $499 for the model with support for ultrafast wireless standard 4G LTE, and starts at $299 for the Wi-Fi only version.
- The 8.9-inch Kindle Fire cuts glare by 25% relative to the latest generation iPad and has a vivid and crisp 1920 x 1200 HD 254 ppi display -- in the same range as the 9.7-inch third generation iPad's 264 ppi Retina display.
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Amazon is already shipping the 7 inch version with “one day delivery” available as a shipping option.- P.Rad, Best eBook Readers
It’s worth remembering that these new devices are all about Amazon content so it’s the Amazon App Store you’ll find on them, not Google Play. You could argue that Amazon is looking to cut Google out of Android.- Simon Hill, Android Authority
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Staples to carry new Kindle Fire models as early as this month
The product launches came less than three months before the start of the holiday season, when many retailers ring up a big chunk of their annual sales.
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Best Buy starts pre-sale of new Kindle devices
Amazon unveiled a slew of tablets with price tags ranging from $159 to $599 on Thursday, hoping to challenge Apple Inc's dominant iPad and grab a bigger bite of the growing tablet market.
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Best Buy takes 2012 Amazon Kindle pre-orders for those that hate online shopping, appreciate irony
If you relish the irony, Best Buy will gladly let you reserve Amazon's $69 Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, upgraded Kindle Fire and both sizes of the Kindle Fire HD (including the LTE model) at both regular locations and Best Buy Mobile.
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Amazon's new Kindle Fire and Fire HD 7 now on sale
Amazon has also updated the Fire to include access to Amazon's new X-Ray for Movies, X-Ray for Books, Immersion Reading, Whispersync for Voice, and Kindle FreeTime features.
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Kindle Fire HD Shipping now, 8.9 Inch Version in November
Amazon is already shipping the 7 inch version with “one day delivery” available as a shipping option.
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Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD 7 on sale now
It’s worth remembering that these new devices are all about Amazon content so it’s the Amazon App Store you’ll find on them, not Google Play. You could argue that Amazon is looking to cut Google out of Android.
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PSA: Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 7, new Fire and Reader now stocked
As we noted, it carries a new dual-band WiFi system for greater surfing speed, dual speakers, a front HD camera and a TI-made dual-core ARM Cortex A-9 processor.
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