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Monday, September 21, 2015

Amazon Introduces the New $50 Fire Tablet

Amazon will begin shipping its new Fire Tablet on September 30. With a price tag of just $50 this limited use-limited application device can be purchased individually or in a 'six-pack'. Undoubtedly this device offers no challenges to the Apple iPad Pro or comparable tablets from Samsung, Sony, Dell, HP or Casio. But is seems to has its niche in the low cost, low end of the tablet market segment for consumers with simple feature requirements.

The Fire Tablet provides a 7" IPS display (171 ppi / 1024 x 600) and fast 1.3 GHz quad-core processor. Rear and front-facing cameras, new Amazon Underground, a one-of-a-kind app store experience where over $10,000 in apps, games and even in-app items are actually free - including extra lives, unlocked levels, unlimited add-on packs and more, access to more than 38 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps and games, 8 GB of internal storage, free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices and  a microSD card for up to 128 GB of additional storage. So how will consumers response to this new mini-tablet? Share your comments with the Smartphone and Tablet Zone.

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