Amazon launches two models of its Kindle Fire tablet series for the first time to Germany. Also yesterday, the newly introduced into the market Kindle Fire HD is coming to Germany. The real star of the evening, but should have been the Kindle Paperwhites, a model of the Kindle Ebook reader with white e-ink display and backlight. Ironically, this model is, however, not initially be available in Germany. All in all, Amazon has introduced yesterday following:
Kindle Fire HD: new edition of the 7-inch tablet for $ 199 or Euro with 16 GB and 249 euros for 32 GB.
Kindle Fire: The one year old 7-inch tablet from Amazon will receive a new edition, which also comes to Germany. It is equipped with slightly weaker hardware and costs 159 euros
Kindle Fire HD 8.9: Amazon has introduced for the United States a larger tablet, which costs $ 299. The LTE version it cost $ 499 with a proud 200 euros. For just $ 50 a year you can be an LTE-Flat (250 MB per month) reserve equal to the true only for the tablet.
Kindle White Paper: The Ebook reader in the U.S. costs $ 119 without and $ 179 with 3G.
Kindle: The Ebook reader device as a gateway drug is cheaper: 79 instead of 99 euros.
The previous models Kindle Touch (129 euros) and Kindle 3G (159 euros) Amazon leaves the program. Too bad: none of the two Kindle Tablets in Germany comes with 3G or 4G (LTE), therefore. Here, the LTE model of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 radioed in ten LTE frequency bands, and would also work in Germany.
Kobo open than Amazon
The first time it was Amazon Kindle Fire mainly about a year ago to secure a slice of the price wars with the tablet market. The quality of the hardware was there beside the point. This time the dealer has updated its Digital Strategy: The fight prices remain, but the hardware has been significantly upgraded. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9, for example, wants a high resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, points with a pixel density of 254 ppi, with with PowerVR 3D graphics and a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor. The device is 8.8 mm thick and weighs 567 grams I understand why in Germany and other countries outside the United States once again is only the inferior hardware. Paperwhite Kindle and Kindle Fire HD you will not initially can buy.
A smart move by Amazon, of course, lower the starting price for Kindle simple to just 79 euros. However, customers must be aware that they can then read only books from Amazon to use a closed ecosystem. Correction: It is possible to convert ebooks in epub format using a tool like Calibre in Amazon's own format. One possibility, of course, not the Amazon advertises explicitly. PDFs also display on a Kindle. / Correction. Otherwise it makes the Kobo Store, who yesterday also presented a number of new e-book reader. The support both the Epub format and PDF, the most popular formats of different publishers can use it to view it. Even loaning e-books in public libraries-is possible.
Technically speaking, the Kobo Glo backlit keep up, 6-inch E-Ink display with the Kindle perfectly. In my opinion this is due to the openness of the moment even better choice. Kobo is the Glo it from October to give buy for 130 euros in Germany, his little brother Kobo Mini (5 inches) for 80 euros. Also a slightly weaker equipped tablet Kobo has on offer, the "Arc" from 200 euros.
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