By Christopher Dawson, ZD Net Education
This isn’t about hardware. It’s about price, ecosystem, and some very exciting new web tech built into the Fire’s browser. The much-anticipated, Android-based Kindle Fire, however, is finally the tablet for 1:1 use in schools. The price is clearly spot on. $199 is far easier to stomach for schools than anything else on the market, it’s a full Android tablet (there’s that convergence I was talking about), its 7″ form factor means that it fits in any bag easily and small hands can hold it just as easily as high school- and college-sized hands, and, most importantly, the new Silk browser that Amazon introduced today has the potential to deliver an entirely new generation of web-based tablet applications.
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