Amazon is launching the new Kindle Fire HD soon it was announced at the at its press conference in Santa Monica on September 6.
The screen of the tablet will now offer a pronominal screen, which will be of 1920×1200 resolution capable of hosting images in 254 ppi. The screen will also come offered in 7 or 8.9 inch screen versions. The new screen will also be laminated with a special coating, which will make it easier to read and give you a better screen contrast ratio.
The speakers will sound better too, they will now come with Dolby Digital Plus. They will also feature a camera and Bluetooth for sharing digital media.
The new device will have a better WiFi performance, a longer battery life and will be much more nippy than its predecessor, thanks to twice the ram and a new 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4460 processor that contains an Imagination PowerVR 3D graphics core for fast and fluid performance. However even after this hardware upgrade its will be still no match for for it’s rival the Nexus 7 that comes that comes with 1gb of ram and a Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip, that is clocked at 1.3GHz.
There is also a 4g version planned but that is being being launched at a later date, which will come with better storage options such as 32gb and 64gb.
The user will get access to the Whisper Sync service on this new device, which has been recently expanded to games and audio books, that allows the users to pick up where they left across different devices.
This appears to be a nice overall upgrade, but some things are still seriously lacking, such as the inability to upgrade the memory, due to their being no sd card slot on the device. If you need a lot of memory then consider something else.
There will be a none HD version offered too that is a slightly upgraded version of its predecessor, that will come with twice the ram and a better battery.
The new 7-inch Kindle Fire HD 16GB and 32GB will cost consumers $199 and $249, respectively, while the the 8.9-inch model will be priced at $299 (£187). They will be available to pre order now and will ship on November 20 in the US.
The 4G LTE version pricing will begin from $499 for the 32GB model and $599 for the 64GB model. AT&T will be offering data plans costing $49.99 per year with a monthly data cap of 250MB, 20GB of cloud storage, and a $10 Appstore credit with those devices.
The 7-inch model will be available at $199 (£124) for a 16GB model. The 8.9-inch model will be priced at $299 (£187). They will be available to pre order now and will ship on November 20 in the US. Those
In the UK the 7inch version of Kindle Fire HD will be sold in the UK at £159 and the none HD version will be sold at £129 in the UK and they it will ship October 25. No details as of yet for the 8.9 inch version have been released.
