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I would like you to have a mobile device you could instantly call technical support – so that all the necessary instructions with illustrations are displayed directly on the screen? October 18 this is possible: in the new tablet Kindle Fire HDX from the Amazon provides remote technical support, calling button Mayday. Perhaps the most conspicuous innovation tablet – the other functions have undergone only a minor evolution as compared to the previous model Kindle Fire HD.

worked with Fire HDX, I can say that this is a very Solid plate. The unit cost of $ 229 ( in the USA) is equipped with a 7-inch color screen ( there is an option HDX with screens 8.9 inches). Like other devices Amazon, the novelty is primarily designed to work with the content of this company.

Alas, as the older model, Fire HDX functionality gives major competitors like Apple iPad Mini or Google Nexus 7. In particular, the range of applications from independent developers rather poor – there is no such popular programs like Instagram, Dropbox, Google Maps, YouTube. In addition, a seven-inch model HDX not have a camera on the back and voice control, similar to Apple Siri and Google Now. Battery HDX showed an average result – 7.5 hours ( the Nexus 7 – six hours at the iPad Mini – 10:00 27 minutes).

What are the advantages of the new model? First, let me note a magnificent display with a resolution of 323 dots per inch and a faster processor. The new operating system Fire OS 3.0 (-based operating system Android) has a number of interesting features. The main screen still displays the most recently used applications and media files, but you can hide them, leaving the default icons of favorite applications. To quickly switch between applications, you can use a retractable side panel of the screen. I liked the player X-Ray for Music, synchronous playback of songs showing their text. In general, the HDX – a good tool to work with content, and access to the resources of Amazon.

WSJ, 8.10.2013, Alexander Silonov

Amazon will increase orders for the new Kindle Fire HD - Comments.UA - information portal

As was rumored, Amazon has increased orders for its latest tablet Kindle Fire HD

reports «3DNews».

Taiwanese manufacturers have received orders for more than 1 million units per month in the months of October and November.

is expected that the demand for the tablet will be high because of the low price. At the time the price in the U.S. for the 8GB version of the Kindle Fire HD with a 7 “is $ 139 and 16GB for $ 169. On sale in the U.S., the device will come very soon. For the tablet from the eminent manufacturer, which also provides access to a huge collection of content, the price is really attractive. In addition, by the end of the year in the United States begins the season of sales, so even if you just realize all the tablets will fail, with the onset of winter stocks are likely to be able to sell.

currently on the market 7 “tablet seen fierce competition. Renowned manufacturers produce low cost devices, and the “unnamed” extremely manufacturers cut prices. So the new Kindle Fire HD just will not.

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… defined the low price of this Android-tablet.

Amazon recently announced three new Android-Tablet PC family of Kindle Fire. According to the information DigiTimes, the interest in Kindle Fire HD, budget representative line is high. Argued that the online retailer is ordered from contract manufacturers build more than 2 million products. This amount shall be delivered to the warehouses for two months – October and November.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD is equipped with a 7-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels. The work runs a dual-core 1.5-GHz processor, coupled with 1GB of RAM. Board thickness wound 10,6 mm, weight – 345 g Operating time per battery charge – 10 hours only released Wi-Fi-version of the device.

Kindle Fire will cost $ 140 for a model with 8GB of flash storage and $ 170 for 16 GB – plus $ 15 in both cases, if you want to give up advertising.

million tablets per month – not so much for the new items, which you can acquire from 2 October, but this is quite an impressive amount (not taking into account the Apple iPad) for a single vendor, which sells a device with a heavily modified Android-platform. And do not forget about the more powerful the 7 – and 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX.

As you can see, the key, and perhaps the only advantage of Android-plates in the face of iPad – a more affordable price.

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Craftsmen iFixit disassembled the new tablet Kindle Fire HD apart - 3DNews

specialists iFixit have studied the electronic stuffing updated tablet Kindle Fire HD (2013), introduced by Amazon in late September.

Recall that the computer is equipped with a 7-inch touch screen with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, dual-core 1.5-GHz TI OMAP 4, 8 or 16 GB of flash memory, as well as the wireless adapter Wi-Fi. Price model with 8GB of storage on starts from $ 139.

Inside the tablet

craftsmen iFixit found module flash memory Toshiba THGBMAG6A2JBAIR e-MMC NAND Flash, RAM chip Micron 3HAI8 D9QQD (1 GB) Mobile LPDDR2 SDRAM, touch screen controller Synaptics S7301B, gyro InvenSense MPU-6500 wireless module Broadcom BCM4330 802.11 a / b / g / n MAC / Baseband / Radio with support for Bluetooth 4.0 + HS & FM.

Maintainability Kindle Fire HD evaluated in 8 out of 10. IFixit experts distinguish modular design simplifies maintenance, and use of standard fasteners Torx T5. Among the disadvantages named a large number of adhesive on the battery, as well as some of the opening of the housing. Moreover, safety glass adhered to the front plastic frame.

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company expanded its line of Kindle a new device – a tablet computer Kindle Fire HDX with feature support streaming video.

The new device has a dedicated button that in the Amazon called Mayday Button (mayday – variant signal SOS), which enables video chat with tech support company. The service is free, and the response time is not more than 15 seconds.

Compared with the previous model, the device has a faster processor, better screen quality and new software features. In addition, the company used a new design that will facilitate the tablet computer.

Kindle Fire HDX is available in two versions – from $ 299 for the 7-inch model, and from 379 dollars for a model with a 8.9-inch screen. Further, models with 4G-transmitter cost $ 100 more expensive.

devices will be available for pre-orders from Wednesday, with the 7-inch version will deliver from October 18, all other versions from 7 November.

Robot from Lego helped circumvent copy-protection Kindle - Gadgets and innovative technologies

is known in the West, the problem of copyright protection in the dissemination of information on digital media is very acute. And such popular services like Amazon are investing a lot of money in the creation of special technology for copy protection. Since purchasing the e-book in the online store Amazon and downloading it to the proprietary reader Kindle, the user is unlikely to succeed to copy a file to another device and use it at all out of the reading room.

However, as is known, any electronic security system can, if desired, avoided. And Austrian Purgatofer named Peter (Peter Purgathofer) managed to do it in a very original way. Professor of the Vienna University of Technology has designed the popular set of simple Lego Mindstorms robot can automatically scan the page of the online reading room for further sampling in the editors text recognition.

In fact, DIY Kindle Scanner – so-called Purgatofer his child – is able to carry out only two operations: one “finger”, he turns the page of the online reading room, and the other – presses the “gap” on the laptop, so he took a picture of the screen with using the built-in webcam (used in the experiment “Makovskaya” camera iSight).

Once the robot is finished, all the resulting images can be sent to the online OCR service, like Free OCR, and, as a result, getting a text file format, available for unlimited distribution.

Though, the Austrian emphasizes that his invention is in no way should be seen as a new way to circumvent copy-protection technology. In the experiment, he used only a single e-book and did not publish any text in the public domain.

Tablets Kindle Fire HDX 7 and 8.9 of the Amazon - penki.lt

The company officially introduced the new Amazon Tablet – Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Kindle Fire 8.9.

The company officially introduced the new Amazon Tablet – Kindle Fire HDX 7 and Kindle Fire 8.9. These new items are respectively 7 and 8.9-inch screens, 1920 × 1200 pixels, density – 322 ppi (7 ‘) and 2,560 × 1,600 pixels, density – 339 ppi (8,9 »).

The plates are based on quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with a clock speed of 2.2 GHz. Highlights the increased performance of new products, a large amount of RAM (2 GB RAM), a long period of self-contained (11:00) and the presence of stereo speakers.

However, on 11 hours of operation between charges stated for the tablet Kindle Fire HDX 7 when working in a “mixed use”: if the device is read-only (no Wi-Fi), then this period will increase by 6 hours. Indicators Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 – 12 and 18 hours, respectively.

Camera: Front – HD, to the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has 8 megapixel main camera + LED flash. The older unit has become easier: 374 grams (for Wi-Fi-version) and 384 grams (for a tablet with integrated 4G), dimensions – 231 × 158 × 7,8 mm. Weight Kindle Fire HDX 7 is 303 grams (Wi-Fi) and 311 grams (4G), dimensions – 186 × 128 × 9 mm.

Tablet running OS Fire OS 3.0 «Mojito», based on Android Jelly Bean, with full compatibility of applications. New items will be available in three flavors: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB (Wi-Fi), between $ 229 and 4G, from $ 379, you can pre-order.

Deliveries: Kindle Fire HDX 7 Wi-F – October 18, Kindle Fire HDX 7 4G – November 14, Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Wi-Fi – November 7 and Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 4G – December 10.