At yesterday's press event, Amazon not just announced new iterations of its Kindle E-Book reader, but also a new tablet customized for content consumption through its integration with Amazon’s content eco-system. Ever since Amazon announced plans to introduce an Android tablet, a portion of gadget enthusiasts as well as the tech press had considered it the only potential iPad killer owing to Amazon’s content eco-system, which is already mature, albeit only in the First World. Here’s a lowdown of the announcements that Amazon made during the launch event of its Kindle Fire Tablet: - Kindle Fire: The Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet, equipped with a colour IPS screen, unlike its e-book readers which feature an e-ink display. It is powered by a 1GHz Dual-Core processor, and is Wi-Fi only and does not support 3G connectivity. The Fire runs a heavily customized version of Google’s Android operating system and features deep integration with Amazon’s E-Books and Music stores and Video streaming service. Although, it can run Android applications, it does not ship with Google’s Android Market app store and instead offers Amazon’s own App Store. Amazon also announced a Newsstand with 100 exclusive graphic novels” from DC Entertainment in addition to magazines and newspapers, in Fire-optimized form, such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Wired, The New Yorker, and others. The tablet’s internal memory is also limited to 8GB, as Amazon offers free storage for all purchased content on its cloud servers. The Fire’s Silk Web Browser processes web pages…
