By Nicholas Kolakowski, eWeek
Amazon’s Kindle Fire, with its 7-inch tablet running a highly modified version of Google Android, is a potential game-changer for the tablet market. Priced at $199.99, and linked to the online retailer’s extensive multimedia libraries and cloud services, it could offer a significant challenge to not only Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color, but also Apple’s iPad (which offers an extensive media collection of its own) and the growing ranks of Google Android tablets (such as Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9). Unlike some other tablets currently on the market, the Kindle Fire lacks a camera, microphone, or access to 3G or 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks. It’s WiFi only. But Amazon is betting that consumers will gravitate toward a cheap tablet optimized for multimedia capability, with easy access to online media and Android apps.
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