The Kindle Firestorm

Amazon drop a few separate bombs on us yesterday. The lineup that was announced is truly star studded and is available for every price point and need: The Kindle Fire HD in two sizes, the Kindle Fire HD 4G and the Kindle Paperwhite eBook reader.

The Kindle Fire HD comes in 2 sizes, 7" and 8.9" and are both WiFi only with two storage sizes each (16GB and 32GB). The Kindle Fire HD 4G is the same size as the 8.9" and the only real difference is that it has a higher storage ceiling (32GB and 64GB) and 4G LTE plan with it. This plan by the way is 250 MB of LTE greatness per month, all for the low price of $50 a year! That's completely unheard of! The price points are right where they should be ($200/$300/$500 for the smaller storage ceiling respectively). On paper, at least in my opinion, it blows away its closes competition, the Nexus 7, away. But that is misleading, it’s still running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. This is by far not a bad thing, but ICS still has some of the biggest Android gripes relatively intact, like processor count buildup and segmented slowdown. No word on if there will be a update for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in the future. But needless to say I am very excited for the Kindle Fire as it will foster competition in the market which will in turn force manufacturers to make better products. This ultimately helps to solidify the rumors that Microsoft will release the Surface at the lower price point of $200-$300 and maybe the yet-to-be announced iPad Mini close to that as well even though that's unlikely. Unfortunately there is "The" Kindle dilemma, its ad supported. This is, for some strange reason, only occurring in the US. This is probably how the keep the price point so low, but this has to be annoying.

Now some of you might be more interested in a eBook Reader instead of a tablet. For you people out there we have the Kindle Paperwhite. They move the PPI up from 169 to 212 and it is immediately noticeable compared to a regular Kindle. It also has a front lit capacitive touch screen, which offers greater control than the infrared screens of old. It comes in 2 flavors as well, with a wireless and a 3G version and minimal prices ($119 and $179 respectively). They are ad supported at that level but they do offer slightly pricier versions that eliminate the ads. I am not an eReader kind of guy, but I can understand the allure of having one and this might just change my mind. Now I just have to get a review model :).

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