$199 Kindle Fire is available for Pre-order Now

New Amazon Tablet ships November 15. Pre-order now, or it is gone.

Sep 28 2011, 10:10am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

$199 Kindle Fire is available for Pre-order Now

Amazon is not taking any chances to make the Kindle Fire a success. Jeff Bezos surprised with a price point below $200. The $199 Kindle Fire does also not disappoint on features and specifications. The question is now: Can Amazon make enough Kindle Fire tablets to satisfy demand? The Kindle Fire is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The 7-inch iPad killer will ship on November 15.

Amazon did not just make another tablet. They really thought about it and offer cool stuff like accelerated web browsing with Amazon Silk powered by their cloud infrastructure.

The feature highlights of the Kindle Fire include:

8 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books
Amazon Appstore - thousands of popular apps and games
Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk
Free cloud storage for all your Amazon content
Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle
Fast, powerful dual-core processor
Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows

The Kindle Fire Specifications include:

7-inch IPS screen with 1024x600px resolution
multi-touch
8 hour reading battery life
USB 2.0
Wi-Fi
8GB Storage
14.6 ounce weight
7.5x4.7x0.45-inches

More details on Amazon.

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Luigi Lugmayr
Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
Luigi can be contacted directly at ml@i4u.com.

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