Amazon's Tablet Bundled with Streaming Movies?
Amazon may offer a free movie streaming service to the first wave of customers buying its upcoming 10-inch tablet.
PC World reports that Amazon's upcoming "Hollywood" Kindle tablet will come bundled with a promotional on-demand movie streaming service free for the first wave of buyers, the same service it currently offers to Amazon Prime customers. It device will also reportedly feature a possible quad-core processor (Kal-El?) and a 10-inch color touch screen.
As expected, the Amazon tablet is likely to focus on the online retailer's proprietary services to differentiate it from rival offerings. These services will include the Kindle store, Amazon MP3 / Cloud Player, the Amazon Android Appstore (which currently still offers a Free App of the Day), the Amazon Market and others baked right into the tablet OS. It's unclear if Amazon will stick with Google's Honeycomb interface, or use a custom Kindle UI overlay to hide the underlying Android OS (like the NOOK Color)
The gadget is expected to arrive just in time for the holiday season with an estimated $399 pricetag to undercut Apple's iPad 2 and a slew of other Android-based tablets with similar properties retailing from $499 and up. This low price point in turn will supposedly put pressure on manufacturers of the pricier tablets including Motorola (ZOOM) and RIM (PlayBook) to reduce their tags this holiday season.
Little else is known about the "color Kindle" at this time. Previously Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos indicated that the upcoming tablet will use a color LED screen instead of using color E Ink, as the colors were currently very pale and wouldn't be ready by the time Amazon ships the tablet. "It makes a lot of sense for there to be a low-power, reflective color display," he told consumer Reports. "I think that's something you could build a fantastic product around."
Bezos also said that the new tablet would compliment the current crop of black-and-white E Ink-based Kindle readers rather than replace them.
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I'll assume this will be untethered from all carriers, and WiFi only (which is a good thing)! If it is and comes loaded with the usual suspect of hardware features such as a full USB port, USB charging, HDMI, front and rear facing cameras, HD playback, SD Card slot, GPS, multi-touch screen, FM radio, motion sensing, etc. Then I'm in!
This could be a win.
The price seems to consider the binding to their store. If it can be rooted, it looks promising.
You should proof your articles better. Last paragraph should be "complement" not "compliment". Currently, you're saying that "the new tablet would SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT the current crop of black-and-white E Ink-based Kindle readers rather than replace them."
Everything known about the Amazon tablet is good till now and the pricing is very competitive so it will exert some pressure in the tablet market, and if this tablet includes Kal-El then it will be a fantastic tablet suitable for real gaming.