Amazon to launch a tablet

Amazon is preparing to launch in November a tablet 'low cost

Kindle, the new 'tablet' from Amazon, due for release next Christmas for an approximate price of 250 dollars (about 176 euros).

Its storage capacity will be limited, hence the importance of the cloud.

Until now and for many months, all I had heard about the upcoming launch of Amazon were only rumors, but finally have some reliable information through TechCrunch. They have been fortunate to have his hands seven-inch tablet that resembles the playbook of BlackBerry and is simply called Amazon Kindle, and refraining from using an assumed name in code. The tablet, as recorded in a statement digitaltrends.com , will go on sale this November for about $ 250 approximately just over 175 euros, as recorded Tendencias 21.

The tablet will be mid-range or low, cheap and without major technological aspirations price of $ 250 has been established and to compete directly with the Nook Color Barnes & Noble and less with the iPAD Apple is worth nearly double the device from Amazon. TechCrunch's article gives no real technical characteristic of the device, although he does some details are emerging from it, so no one knows for certain what their performance against Nook.

Features, interpreted by the editor of TechCrunch, speak of a tablet without major technological aspirations of an apparatus midrange or low. As mentioned above, will have a seven-inch screen, possibly a single-core processor, 6GB of internal storage (the cloud is very important), no physical buttons on the front, tubeless, with a version with WiFi connectivity (more Later versions will have 3G) and finish rear rubber, very similar to BlackBerry playbook.

With Android

The Android version of the Kindle is based on Froyo Android 2.2 , but is fully modified by Amazon. The entire interface has changed and there is the slightest sign of Google services and applications on the device, but you can run Android applications achieved through Amazon AppStore. Thus, all services use Amazon to read, listen to music and buy applications and articles.

All services use Amazon to read, listen to music or buy other hand, it is assumed that users will not notice any new updates of software , since all the interface of the tablet has been redesigned. The interface has a look similar to Cover Flow that uses Apple. In this view of carousel are books, movies or music. Very smooth interface responds to user actions and the colors are Amazon, that is very black, dark blue and orange.

In portrait mode displays a menu of favorite items on the carousel, which went off when in landscape mode. At the top we have a status bar that displays the time, autonomy and access to notifications.

The application for reading books is very similar to the Apple operating system, IOS, and Google's Android, while the music application connects to the Amazon cloud.

It is recalled that the rumors so far have predicted that Amazon would take the market two tablets , one is the seven-inch Kindle and the other is a 10-inch version, which could see the light in early 2012, if sales of the first match the expectations of the company.

We finally have confirmation of the existence of a tablet from Amazon, but not exactly what many have expected. Only time will tell if the low cost of this tablet will boost your success or modified version of Android to his death. What is clear is that the release date makes it a gift that could become a star for next Christmas.