Amazon Kindle Press Conference Recap
Did you miss the Amazon Kindle announcement today? We have the full recap for you plus everything you need to know from Amazon. We give you the full run down on the 7 new devices available to pre-order today and will be released in the coming months.
Amazon PaperWhite:
- Black and White e-ink display
- 25% more contrast
- 212 PPi
- 62% more pixels
- Frontlit display (with variable light control)
- 7.1 mm thick
- 7.5 ounces
- Black
- No buttons
- Rounded corners (beware from Apple)
- Estimate time to finish the book
- $119 for the non-3G model with Special Offers, $139 for the non-3G model without Special Offers
- $179 for 3G version with Special Offers, $199 for the 3G Version without Special Offers
- Free 3G on the PaperWhite 3G model
- Pre-Order today and ships October 1st
Kindle minimalistic model (has no real name, was unofficially named the $79 model)
- New fonts
- Crisper text
- 15% faster page turns
- $69 with Special Offers, $89 without Special Offers
- Pre-Order today and ships September 14th
Kindle Fire Regular 7 inch
- 40% Faster processor
- Double the Ram
- More battery life
- $159
Kindle Fire HD 7 inch
- 1280 x 800 resolution
- Texas Instruments 4470 processor
- 16GB internal storage minimum
- Dual Stereo speakers
- Dolby Digital Plus
- Front facing camera
- a new polarizing filter to cut down on the glare (25% less glare)
- Two Wi-Fi antennas
- MIMO
- Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
- HDMI out
- Bluetooth
- WhisperSync for books, voice, and game status
- $199 for $16GB, $249 for 32GB
- Pre-Order today and ships September 14th
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch
- 8.8mm thick
- 20 ounces
- 1920 x 1200 resolution
- 254 PPi
- Texas Instruments 4470 processor
- 16GB internal storage minimum
- Dual Stereo speakers
- Dolby Digital Plus
- Front facing camera
- a new polarizing filter to cut down on the glare (25% less glare)
- Two Wi-Fi antennas
- MIMO
- Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)
- HDMI out
- Bluetooth
- WhisperSync for books, voice, and game status
- $299 for 16GB, $369 for 32GB
- Pre-Order today and ships November 20th
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch with LTE
- 8.8mm thick
- 20 ounces
- 1920 x 1200 resolution
- 254 PPi
- Texas Instruments 4470 processor
- 32GB internal storage minimum
- Dual Stereo speakers
- Dolby Digital Plus
- Front facing camera
- a new polarizing filter to cut down on the glare (25% less glare)
- Two Wi-Fi antennas
- MIMO
- Wi-Fi G and N (2.5 GHz and 5 GHz)
- HDMI out
- WhisperSync for books, voice, and game status
- AT&T’s LTE
- $499 for 32GB, $599 for 64GB
- Pre-Order today and ships November 20th
In addition to the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch with LTE
- 250 MB per month of 4G LTE
- 200 GB of cloud storage
- $10 Amazon credit
- $49.99 a year