Kindle Fire
The amazing new Kindle Fire has a multi-tude of possibilities. This model offers Movies, TV sh0ws, magazines, and children’s books all come alive on it’s 7″ vibrant color multi-touch sceen. It features 8GB of storage plus free cloud storage for all of your Amazon content. There are over 1 million books, magazines and newspapers to choose from, plus movies and TV shows to stream download, purchase or rent. Play your favorite apps and games. Stream your music library from Amazon Cloud Drive or download to your device and listen offline.
Product Features
The Kindle Fire is 7″ color multi-touch display. It is great for viewing movies and TV shows, Brings colorful magazines and books to life.
It has 8GB storage (6GB storage for user content). Provides space for storing books,magazines, TV shows, Movies and music.
You can customize your Kindle with the language you prefer. You can default language on the Kindle to English (US and UK) , German, French, Spanish, and Italian, or Brazillian Portuguese.
You have free access to the Amazon Cloud storage with all of Amazon digital content.
It offers Amazon Silk Browser to which is Cloud -accelerated Web Browser and is ideal for streaming video,music, games and more. Supports Adobe Flash.
It has built in wi-fi and allows you to connect at home or to hotspots on the road. Kindle automatically detects nearby wi-fi networks at home, school, or your favorite cafe. At a hotel or cafe may require a password. Simply enter the password and connect to the network. Once you have added a wi-fi network, Kindle will automatically connect to that network the next time your near the hotspot.
The Amazon Kindle Store offers more than 1 million books, magazines, and newspapers plus over 18 million movies, TV shows, apps and songs.
Whispersync technology
Like Kindle e-readers, Kindle Fire uses Amazon’s Whispersync technology to automatically sync your library to your last page read, bookmarks,and highlights across your devices. On Kindle Fire, Whispersync extends to video. Start watching a movie on your Kindle Fire, then pick up where you left off on your TV, avoid the frustration of having to find your spot.
APPS and Games
The Kindle Fire includes Facebook and thousands of apps and games to download.
Stunning Color Touchscreen
Kindle Fire offers movies, magazines and children’s books come alive on a 7″ vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high resolution. Kindle Fire uses IPS ( in plane switching) technology similar technology to that used on the IPad for an extra- wide viewing angle, perfect for sharing your screen with others.
Magazines in Rich Color
Enjoy your favorite magazines with glossy, full color photographs and illustrations. Choose from hundreds such as Bon Appetit, Elle, and Oprah. Special editions Of titles like Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ come with built in video, audio and other interactive features.
Simply and Easy to Use
Designed from the ground up, Kindle’s Fire simple, intuitive interface puts the content you love at your fingertips. Take a spin through your recent titles and websites straight from the home screen. Whether you’re in the mood to watch , read, listen. play, or browse, you can get all of your favorite content with a simple touch. Kindle makes it so simple.
100,000 Movies and TV Shows
With over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to download, purchase or rent and all one tap away. Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, commercial free streaming 10,000 popular movies and TV shows.
Fast Dual Core Processor
Kindle Fire features a state of the art dual core processor for fast and powerful performance. Check out music while browsing the web or read books while downloading videos.
Your Favorite Apps and Games
You have access to thousands of the most popular apps, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, ESPN Score Center, Comics by Comixology and more, plus you’ll get a great paid app for free every day. Enjoy the best games, including Words with Friends, Angry Birds, Planet vs Zombies and m0re. from top developers like Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, Rovio and more. All Apps are Amazon tested in Kindle Fire for the best experience possible.
Ultra- Fast Web Browsing – Amazon Silk
Amazon Silk is a revolutionary cloud accelerated browser that uses a “split browser” architecture to leverage the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. It supports Adobe Flash Player.
Million Of Books
You have access to the best sellers, childrens books, comic books, cookbooks that are in vibrant color. The Kindle Store offers over 1 million books including titles at $9.99 or less. In addition over 2 million out of copyright, pre 1923 books are also available such as Pride and Prejudice.
Free Cloud Storage
Forget about trying to remember your books as Kindle Fire gives you free storage for all of your Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud. Your books, movies, music and apps are available instantly to browse or download for free, at a touch of your finger.
Your Favorite Children’s Books
Kindle is great for parents and kids. Stir your child’s imagination with over 1000 beautifully illustrated children’s books including favorites like Brown Bear, Curious George, and Circus Ship.
Easy to Hold in One Hand
Kindle Fire is designed to travel with you wherever you go. Small enough to fit in your purse and light enough to hold in just one hand. Kindle Fire is perfect for browsing, playing, reading and shopping on the go.
Extra Durable Display
Our state of the art Kindle Fire display is chemically strengthened to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, making it extra durable and resistant to accidental bumps and scrapes.
Kindle’s Owner’s Lending Library
With the Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can choose from thousands of books to borrow for free, including over 100 New York Times bestsellers as frequently as a book a month with no due dates.
Free Month of Amazon Prime
Experience the benefits that millions of Amazon Prime members already enjoy, including unlimited, instant browsing of 10,000 popular movies and TV shows, free two day shipping on millions of items, and now access to thousands of popular Kindle books through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. If you haven’t used Prime in the past, we’ll automatically give you a free month to try it out.
Read Your Documents
Kindle makes it easy to take your documents with your wherever you go. You can email documents, including word, PDF, and more directly to your Kindle so you can read them anytime and anywhere.
With the Kindle Fire you can stay in touch by using our built in app that gets your webmail, (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Aol, ect.) into a single inbox. Import your messages and contact list from other email accounts. Additonal email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for Android.
Technical Details
Display
Kindle Fire had a 7″ display with IPS ( in plane switching) technology and anti reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Size
7.5″ x 4.7″ x .45 ”
Weight
14.6 ounces
System Requirements
None, because it’s wireless and doesn’t require a computer.
On Device Storage
8 GB internal ( approximately 6 GB for user content). That’s enough for about 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
Cloud Storage
Free Cloud Storage for all Amazon content.
Battery Life
Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.
Connections and Storage
On the bottom of the Kindle Fire is a headphone port ( which will accept external speakers ), micro USB ( for changing file transfer ) and the power button. The Fire doesn’t come with an SD card or card slot as Amazon wants you to get content directly from them. It also reduces the production costs. You can transfer your own content to the device through the USB connection from you own computer. The Kindle Fire comes with 8GB of storage for which can hold up to about 8 downloaded movies, 80 apps, 800 songs or about 6,000 books. You can really become adept to managing your content through Cloud. Books don’t take up as much room, but magazines and movies are a little under 1 GB. Free videos are available through Amazon Prime, but cannot be downloaded only streamed. So unless you buy a movie through Amazon or transfer one of your own, you must be connected through a wi-fi connection in order to watch your movie.
Amazon Cloud
If you have never tried Amazon Cloud you will be very surprised. You get a larger amount of storage at your fingertips, which amounts to 5GB ( which they will probably increase in the near future) of free online storage to store anything that you want, and can access it from anywhere. The Cloud also gives you option of upgrading to a larger storage if you need to. They charge $1.00 for extra gigabyte per year. You can upload a playlist and listen to it on your home computer and then when you get to work you are able to get the work from Fire and continue listening where you left off. Any songs that Amazon Mp3 are automatically stored on the Cloud and don’t contribute to the 5GB of storage space.
Amazon Silk
Revolutionary Cloud Accelerated ” Split Browser “
Amazon Silk is different in a radical new way. With Silk you can without thinking about it or doing anything explicit, you’re calling on the computing speed and the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. We have refactored and rebuilt the browser software stack to push pieces of the computation into the AWS cloud. This let Silk do more work more quickly, and all at once. We call this a “split browser” architecture.
Silk browser software resides on both the Kindle Fire and the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2) . With each page request Silk dynamically determines a division of labor between the mobile hardware and Amazon EC2( ie which browser sub components run where) that takes into account factors like network conditions,page complexity and the location of any cache content.
Shorter Transit Times
The Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds that’s typical over the wireless connections. AWS also has relationships with major internet service providers, and many of the sites are hosted on EC2. That means that many web requests will never leave the extended infrastructure of AWS, reducing transit times to only a few milliseconds.
Computing Power in the Cloud
EC2 servers have massive computational power. On EC2, available CPU, storage and available memory can be orders of the magnitudes larger than on mobile devices. Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website simultaneously and delivers them to the Kindle Fire in a single fast stream. Transferring computing intensive tasks to EC2 help to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life.
Persistent Connections
A typical web request begins with the resolving of the domain names associated with the server and establishing a TCP connection to issue the http request. Establishing TCP connections for each request consumes time and resources that slow down traditional browsers. Silk keeps a persistent connection open to the backend server on the AWS cloud so that there is always a connections at the ready to start loading the next page . In addition the Silk backend server keeps persistent connections open to the top sites on the web. The approach further reduces latency that would otherwise result from constantly establishing connections. Further the connection between Silk and the backend infrastructure uses a pipelined,multiplexing protocol that can send all of the content over a single connection.
Pages Indexes
Traditional browsers must wait to recieve the HTML file in order to begin downloading the other pages assets. Silk is different because it learns these page characteristics automatically by aggregating the results of millions of page loads and maintaining this knowledge on EC2. While other browsers might still be setting up a connection with host server, Silk has already pushed content that it knows is associated with the page to Kindle Fire before it’s site has even instructed the browser where to find it.
Machine Learning
Finally, Silk leverages the collaborative filtering techniques and machine learning algorithms Amazon has built over the last 15 years to power features such as ” customers who bought this also bought” . As Silk serves up millions of page views every day, it learns more about the individual sites it render and where users go next. By observing the aggregate traffic patterns on various web sites, it refines it heuristics, allowing the accurate predictions of the next page request. For example Silk might observe that 85 percent of the visitors to a leading new site next click on that site’s top headline. With that knowledge EC2 and Silk together make intelligent decisions about pre-pushing content on the Kindle Fire. As a result the next page that a Kindle Fire customer is likely to visit is already available locally in the device cache enabling instant rendering to the screen.
Recommended Accessories
There is a 2 year Square Trade Warranty plus Accident
There is also a Kindle Fire clear screen Protector 2 pack
Also available is a Kindle Fire Charger/ AC adapter
