Amazon Kindle Fire Announced

The brand new Amazon Kindle Fire has been confirmed as Amazon's new representative in the blooming tablet industry. With more diversity and charisma than its predecessor, the Kindle, Amazon's Kindle Fire will provide users with many more interactive options. It is speculated that the name “Kindle Fire” is supposed to both associate and differentiate the two prominent products. While Amazon Kindle will still be a pronounced leader in the ebook industry, the innovative Amazon Kindle Fire will open doors that have previously only been explored by the iPad. The iPad, in fact will be the Amazon Kindle Fire's top competitor and will offer at least two tempting options for tablet users.

The Kindle Fire at base value, features a redesigned version of the Android operating system. It is by no means a repackaged substitute for the latter. To the contrary, the Kindle Fire is designed to show off Amazon's media capabilities, not those of Android or Google. Amazon wants to become it's own media giant and surely will add a new competitive player to the tablet era. With a initial 7-inch screen release, the Amazon Kindle Fire will surely be available before the holiday season. Another important note to recognize is that the Fire will probably be significantly cheaper than its chief competitor, the iPad. Only time will tell if this price differential will be enough to take the spotlight away from Apple's tablet, but we'll see soon enough. Regardless of how it affects the iPad, the Kindle Fire's relatively cheap price range will pressure other competitors to stay around a certain price point thus allowing for multiple options at a lower pricing tier than the iPad, which will in turn stimulate the growing tablet market. The iPad's prices will probably not drop and Apple may even benefit from the release of the Kindle Fire due to all of these competitive releases adding popularity to the already rapidly growing tablet industry.

The release of the Amazon Kindle Fire is about more than the release of a product. Amazon will have it's own Android marketplace to distribute its new TV, ebook, movie and music applications. These features will most probably be subscription based. Amazon has already made deals with companies like Fox to ensure that their streaming and downloading services will be ready for the Kindle Fire's release. If Amazon's innovations affect these media outlets as much as they have already effected the ebook world, exciting changes are sure to come in the near future.

In summary, the Amazon Kindle Fire will have:

• A processor equivalent in power to the Blackberry PlayBook

• Its own application store

• Kindle ereader software

• TV, movies, music, magazines and other media sources

• A web browser

• A relatively low price range

Any way you look at it, the release of the Amazon Kindle Fire and soon the Barnes and Noble Nook Color 2 are exciting new developments in this dynamic new industry. Whether you are a fan of these specific brands or not, these releases are sure to increase the popularity and competition in the ebook, tablet and online media markets allowing for infinite potential in the future. If nothing else, be on the lookout for how these new product releases develop and which devices triumph and which ones fall.