Is Amazon Kindle Fire an iPad Killer?

Probably one of the most exaggerating questions among the present-day techno freaks would be whether the newly launched Amazon Kindle Fire Android Tablet is an iPad Killer or it won’t really bother Apple in the first place So, let’s check that out in the following sections by detailing the important features related to this new tablet.

To be fair, the new Kindle Fire is not the professed “iPad Killer” some cited it to be, but as per IIHS iSuppli, the newly introduced model has already become the number 2-tablet in the present market.

It has been predicted that Amazon will ship nearly 3.9-Million Kindle Fires in the final 3-months of 2011 in order to secure at least 13.8 % of the market. 

But, Apple will grab the majority of the present tablet market share by delivering nearly 18.6-Million iPads for 65.6% in the final 4th quarter of 2011.

Is Kindle an iPad Killer? If you ask this question to any highly knowledgeable techno enthusiast, he/she would answer you saying that presently there isn’t even a feeble chance. The new Fire IS tablet is need a great mid-range tablet, which doesn’t belong to iPad’s league, but its future versions may stand a chance to challenge Apple’s master creation.

Important Specifications and Features of new Amazon Kindle Fire Android Tablet and also differences between kindle fire vs Apple iPad
Display Screen: The display size of the new Kindle Fire is 7-inches capacitive touch screen display screen with 1024x768 pixel resolution, while the new iPad has a much larger 9.7-inch capacitive HD display screen.

Operating System: When it comes to software, the new Kindle uses Google Inc’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread software and hope Amazon will announce Honeycomb , whereas the new iPad uses Apple’s own trademark iOS software.

Processing Speed Capability: Kindle android tablet runs with 1GHz dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP processor and 512MB Ram enough to handle multitasking applications, where iPad runs with A5 chipset 1GHz single core ARM Cortex-A8 CPU and 512MB Ram.

Camera Features: Kindle Fire doesn't have both front and back cameras, where iPad  have not front VGA camera for video calling and it have back 2.0 mega pixel camera shoots excellent pictures.

Memory Story and Thickness: The new Kindle Fire comes with a maximum of 8-GB of in-built storage memory, and free web-based storage memory for storing any digital data including movies, e-Books, music etc. The new iPad offers a storage space ranging from 16-GB to 64-GB, depending upon on the version that you choose.Measuring around 0.34-inches, iPad is much thinner than the new Kindle Fire, which has a thickness of 0.45-inches. Both tablets doesn't have Micro SD card slots.

Weighs and Dimensions: Developed from light-weight material, Kindle weighs around slightly less than a pound, and to be precise it weighs 14.6 ounces i.e 413 grams, whereas the new iPad weighs around 1.3-pounds i.e 589 grams.

Price AvailabilityFinally Amazon Kindle fire priced their android tablet with decent price tag around 200$ in US and £125 in UK market stores and Apple iPad 2 price range starts from 650$-800$.

The users can get built-in access to thousands of paid and free apps and games through Amazon Appstore with the new Kindle Fire. But, in contrast, the new iPad has a wide collection of Apps, which is nearly about 50-times greater.

Apple’s online App store has a collection of nearly more than 100,000 apps customized exclusively for the iPad-including many advanced apps for Amazon.com and the latest Kindle.

The new iPad 2 has been incorporated with both front and rear cameras, which helps in capturingthe most memorable moments of your life with supreme quality, while the new Kindle Fire sadly doesn’t include a camera option.

The Final Verdict
On the whole, we can say that the new Kindle Fire might have come with some advanced features that could impress most of the techno freaks, at an affordable price, but it certainly won’t have the caliber this time around to outpace the new iPad in any way.

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  4. I haven't heard anyone say anything particularly great about the Kindle Fire yet - it's not generating a buzz among my friends like iPad did. I disagree that it's not competing for the same market though - the tablet market hasn't fragmented into categories yet, all tablets are together as far as perception goes. One day we'll have segmentation by price bracket, screen size, capabilities and more, but that's at least 3-5 years away, the market's still emerging.

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