Amazon wants to make tablets consumer goods

As it was promised about a week ago, Amazon представил a new line of 7-inch tablet cheap titled Fire at a price of $ 49.99. The devices are so cheap, the company put up a rather unusual proposal: for $ 249.95, you can buy a "pack" tablets in a special branded a basket, and the sixth in this case, the buyer will get for free. Fire Sale will start on September 30.

Himself tablet boasts a 7-inch IPS-screen (1024x600 pixels), 4-core frequency of 1.3 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, internal storage sizes of 8GB which can be expanded to 128 GB due to SD-card, dual cameras, one of which is the front. It promised that the battery device will allow him to work up to 7 hours of reading, paging web pages, listen to music and watch video. The operating system is a version of Android, which is called from Amazon Fire OS 5 "Bellini", offers customers access to multiple services Amazon - for example, free unlimited storage of photos, which were made tablet Fire.



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In the coming months, Amazon also plans to launch an additional service for owners of Fire, which will be called «On Deck». Apparently, this feature will automatically upload and manage video files from the Amazon store so that the plate will always show the actual series and the plane will always have to see. True, «On Deck» is a paid service available only to members of the program Amazon Prime.

When describing your tablet Amazon does not skimp on high-profile than its competitors. For example, testing has shown that the screen Fire about two times more reliable than the screen iPad Air, and an unnamed tablet processor is twice as powerful as another competitor - Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite.

An earlier attempt to Amazon to enter the market with 3D-smartphone Firephone failed. The company's losses associated with the release of the smartphone, totaled $ 170 million, and stuck in warehouses unsold units at $ 83 million. It did not help that a two-year contract worth about Firephone weeks ago, $ 1 (selling right now discontinued), while sales to the top of its price was $ 199.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/262668/</sup>