The Kindle Fire is a tablet version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was announced on September 28, 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running a custom version of Google's Android operating system called Fire OS.
The device—which includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle's e-books—was released to consumers in the United States on November 15, 2011.
On September 7, 2012, upgrades to the device were announced with consumer availability to those European countries with a localized version of Amazon's website (United Kingdom,[9] France, Germany, Italy and Spain).[10]
The Kindle Fire originally retailed for US$199.[11]
Estimates of the device's initial bill of materials ranged from $150 to $201.70.[12][13]
Amazon's business strategy is to make money through sales of digital content on the Fire, rather than through the device itself.[14][15][16]
As of October 2012, the Kindle Fire is the second best selling tablet after Apple's iPad, with about 7 million units sold according to estimates by Forrester Research[2] and as of 2013 Amazon's tablets are fourth.[17]
On September 6, 2012, the Kindle Fire was upgraded to the second generation, and its price was reduced to $159, RAM upgraded to 1 GB and processor clock speed upgraded to 1.2 GHz.
A more powerful and video-friendly version, the Kindle Fire HD (7 and 8.9 inch versions) was also made available, initially priced at $199 and $299.[18][19]
On September 25, 2013, the Kindle Fire HD was upgraded to the third generation, priced at $139, and the Kindle Fire HDX was introduced.
The Kindle Fire HDX has an improved graphics engine, double the memory, and triple the processor speed of the previous model.
The 7-inch and 8.99-inch versions were introduced at $229 and $379 respectively.[20][21]
In September 2014, the Fire HDX 8.9 and the Fire HD were upgraded to the fourth generation of Fire tablets, removing the "Kindle" naming.[22]
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| Developer | Amazon.com, Inc. |
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| Manufacturer | Quanta Computer[1] |
| Generation | 1st |
| Release date | November 15, 2011 (USA) September 6, 2012 (Europe) December 18, 2012 (Japan) |
| Units sold | 7 million (as of October 2012)[2] |
| Operating system | Based on Android OS 2.3.3 (customized: 6.3.2_user_4110520) (1st gen.) Based on Android 4.0.3 (customized: 10.5.1_user_5172420) (2nd gen.) |
| System-on-chip used | Texas Instruments OMAP 4 4430 |
| CPU | 1.2 GHz Dual-core Cortex-A9 (ARMv7) |
| Memory | 512 MB RAM (1st gen.) 1 GB RAM (2nd gen.)[3] |
| Storage | 8 GB[4] |
| Display | 7 inch multi-touch Gorilla Glass display, 1024×600 at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.[4] Capacitive touch sensitive.[5] |
| Connectivity | Micro-USB 2.0 (type B)[6] 3.5 mm stereo socket[6] 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi |
| Online services | Amazon Prime, Amazon Cloud Storage, Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Instant video, Amazon Silk, Amazon App Store, Amazon Kindle Store |
| Dimensions | 190 mm (7.5 in) H 120 mm (4.7 in) W 11.4 mm (0.45 in) D[7] |
| Weight | 413 g (14.6 oz)[8] |
| Successor | Kindle Fire HD |
| Website | Amazon Kindle Fire |
Design
Hardware
The Kindle Fire hardware was manufactured by Quanta Computer (an Original Design Manufacturer), which had also helped design the BlackBerry PlayBook, using it as a hardware template for the Kindle Fire.[23]Kindle Fire devices employ a 1-GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core processor. The device has a 2-point multi-touch color LCD screen with a diagonal length of 7 inches (180 mm) and a 600×1024-pixel resolution (160 dpi density).
Connectivity is through 802.11n Wi-Fi and USB 2.0 (Micro-B connector). The device includes 8 GB of internal storage—said to be enough for 80 applications, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.[24][25]
According to Amazon, the Kindle Fire's 4400 mAh battery sustains up to 8 hours of consecutive reading and up to 7.5 hours of video playback with wireless off.[26]
Of the 8 GB internal storage, approximately 6.5 GB is available for content.[27]
The first-generation Kindle Fire has a sensor on the upper left-hand corner of the screen. This is widely considered to be an ambient-light sensor, disabled since an early software upgrade.[28]
Software
The first generation of Kindle Fire devices run a customized Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread OS.[29]The second generation Kindle Fire HD runs a customized Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich OS.[30]
Along with access to Amazon Appstore,[6][31] the Fire includes a cloud-accelerated "split browser", Amazon Silk, using Amazon EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and rendering, and Google's SPDY protocol for faster webpage content transmission.[32][33][34]
The user's Amazon digital content is given free storage in Amazon Cloud's web-storage platform,[6] 5 GB music storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, and a built-in email application allows webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox.[6]
The subscription-based Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, is available with a free 30 day trial period.[6]
Content formats supported are Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Kindle Mobi (.azw), TXT, PDF, unrestricted MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.[6]
Because of Amazon's USB driver implementation, the Kindle Fire suffers from slow USB transfer speeds.
For example, transferring an 800MB video file may take more than three minutes.[35]
Reception
Analysts had projected the device to be a strong competitor to Apple's iPad,[11][36] and that other Android device makers would suffer lost sales.[37][38]In a review published by Project Gutenberg, the Kindle Fire was called a "huge step back in freedom from the Kindle 3"; the reviewer noted that Amazon introduced a "deliberate limitation" into the Fire that didn't exist in the previous version: it is no longer possible to download free e-books from websites such as Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive and Google Books and have them stored permanently in the same places where books from Amazon are kept.[39]
Sales
Customers began receiving their Kindle Fires on November 15, 2011, and by the following December, customers had purchased over a million Kindle devices per week.[40]International Data Corporation (IDC) estimated that the Kindle Fire sold about 4.7 million units during the fourth quarter of 2011.[41]
Recently, the Amazon Kindle Fire helped the company beat their 2012 first quarter estimates and boosted the company's stock in extended trading.[42]
As of May 2013, about 7 million units have been sold according to estimates.[2]
Models
| Generation | 1st generation (2011) | 2nd generation (2012) |
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| Model | Kindle Fire | Kindle Fire |
| Release date | November 15, 2011 | September 14, 2012 |
| Status | Discontinued | Discontinued |
| Screen size | 7 | |
| Resolution | 1024 × 600 (169 ppi) | |
| OS | Based on Android OS 2.3.3 | Based on Android OS 4.0.3 |
| CPU | Dual-core 1 GHz TI OMAP4 4430 | Dual-core 1.2 GHz TI OMAP4 4430 |
| GPU | Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX540 | |
| RAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11 b/g/n | |
| Storage | 8 GB | |
| Dimensions | 190 × 120 × 11.4 mm (7.48 × 4.72 × 0.45 in) | 189 × 120 × 11.5 mm (7.44 × 4.72 × 0.45 in) |
| Weight | 413 g (14.6 oz) | 400 g (14 oz) |
| Battery | 4400 mAh | |
Gallery
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The Kindle Fire in horizontal position displaying web page
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Kindle Fire 7 in (180 mm) size relative to a hand -
The iPad (left) compared with the Kindle Fire (right) -
The Kindle Fire (left) compared with the iPod Touch (right) -
The Kindle Fire (left) compared with the iPad Mini (center) and the Nexus 7 (2012 version) (right)
See also
- Kindle Fire HD, Second generation Kindle Fire
- Kindle Fire HDX, Third generation Kindle Fire
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