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Amazon Tablet to Be More Tempting Than the iPad Price-Wise

Posted by on August 27, 2011 11 comments

What Amazon might lack in quality (since their first tablet will be just another Tegra 2 model), they’ll make up in price, it seems. Supposedly, the company’s first slate will match the iPad’s $499 entry level pricing, according to the New York Post. Aggressive pricing is quoted for the first Amazon tablet, released in September or October.

We remind you that the retailer is actually readying two slates, the dual core entry level Coyote and the high end quad core Hollywod model. One of them will be unveiled in the coming weeks, if everything goes OK. We expect here Honeycomb on both devices and we can’t help but wonder what will happen to the quad core unit, since rumors say that the quad core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU has problems and it will be delayed a bit.

Of course, deep Amazon service integration is expected, with stuff like the Amazon Appstore, the Kindle eBook store, Amazon’s Cloud Drive service and much more included. Keep your eyes out for a special event in the following weeks, when the other major companies are done with introducing their products (HTC, Samsung, Motorola etc).


Amazon Expected To Ship As Many As 3 Million “Coyote” Tablets By October

Posted by on August 5, 2011 No comments

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Amazon is prepping for a massive invasion of their 7-inch Android tablets in Q3. Apparently, Amazon’s manufacturing partner Quanta (who also makes the Kindle and Playbook) expects to ship around 3 million of their dual-core tablets to the online retailer by October. This translates into roughly 800,000 to a million units every month for the remainder of Q3. This is actually a lot more than what Digitimes first reported with 700,000 to 800,000 units being shipped each month this quarter. As far as Amazon’s 10.1-inch quad-core tablet goes, the “Hollywood” isn’t expected until sometime next year and is currently being manufactured by Foxconn.

[Via Cens]