Amazon unveiled its long-awaited answer to the Apple iPad on Wednesday: the Kindle Fire. However, Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos positioned the Kindle Fire as a new class of the company’s Kindle e-reader rather than an iPad challenger per se. The Fire has a customized version of Android and runs Amazon’s Silk browser, which leverages the Amazon cloud. Amazon also announced three other Kindle readers. It’s still too early to tell whether or not the Kindle Fire will be considered a challenger to the iPad.
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Amazon Blazes New Tablet Trail With Kindle Fire
Posted by: Richard Adhikari September 28, 2011 11:38 AMAmazon unveiled its long-awaited answer to the Apple iPad on Wednesday: the Kindle Fire. However, Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos positioned the Kindle Fire as a new class of the company’s Kindle e-reader rather than an iPad challenger per se. The Fire has a customized version of Android and runs Amazon’s Silk browser, which leverages the Amazon cloud. Amazon also announced three other Kindle readers. It’s still too early to tell whether or not the Kindle Fire will be considered a challenger to the iPad.