According to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News, Amazon could launch a 6-inch colour e-ink reader later this year. Such a device would be the company’s first to use a colour e-ink display. The report indicates that E Ink Holdings (EIH) has received an order from Amazon to supply it with three million ePaper modules per month starting in March. This […]
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Amazon now selling over 1 million Kindles a week
Amazon, which has so far provided little information on just how well its Kindle devices have sold, issued a press release this week to finally shed a bit of light on this. It reports that it is now selling over a million Kindle devices (Kindle ebook readers and the Kindle Fire tablet) a week. The Kindle Fire in particular has […]
Amazon increases Kindle Fire orders due to strong pre-orders
Strong pre-orders for its upcoming Kindle Fire tablet have apparently prompted Amazon to increase its orders for 2011 to five million units. Digitimes adds that this is the second time that the retailer has increased orders since announcing it in late September. While Amazon has not provided pre-order numbers, it apparently took about 95,000 on the first day of pre-orders. […]
95,000 Kindle Fire tablets pre-ordered on first day?
Digital marketing firm eDataSource estimates that Amazon may have seen as many as 95,000 pre-orders for its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, on the first day alone. The number is roughly a third of sales Apple recorded for the first day the original iPad was available. eDataSource apparently came up with its estimates by tracking email purchase receipts in 800,000 […]
Amazon announces Kindle Fire tablet
As expected, Amazon today announced the Kindle Fire tablet. According to Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO: “Kindle Fire brings together all of the things we’ve been working on at Amazon for over 15 years into a single, fully-integrated service for customers. With Kindle Fire, you have instant access to all the content, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, the […]
Amazon Android tablet to be known as Kindle Fire?
It is widely expected that Amazon will unveil its first Android tablet at a press event on September 28th. TechCrunch.com, which already spent time with the tablet, now reports that the tablet will be known as the Kindle Fire. Along with Gdgt.com, they report that the Kindle Fire will bear a striking resemblance to the BlackBerry PlayBook because both products […]