Amazon Kindle Fire HD

Amazon on Thursday 6 September unveiled a new, larger version of its Kindle Fire tablet computer with a high-definition display called Kindle Fire HD at California, in a move to snatch more market share currently dominated by competitor market leader Apple iPad.

“Kindle Fire HD is not only the most-advanced hardware, it’s also a service,” Amazon founder and CEO Bezos said. “When combined with our enormous content ecosystem, unmatched cross-platform interoperability and standard-setting customer service, we hope people will agree that Kindle Fire HD is the best high-end tablet anywhere, at any price.”

The new Kindle Fire HD screen display will be 8.9-inch (22.6-centimeter) in size. However, the large-display tablet is only 8.8 millimeters thick, and weighs 560 grams (20 ounces). It is lighter, thinner than Apple the new iPad.

Amazon also announced that the Kindle Fire HD predecessor Kindle Fire price was reduced to $159, RAM upgraded to 1GB and processor clock speed upgraded to 1.2GHz.

The Kindle Fire HD has dual-band Wi-Fi and two antennas compare to the new iPad from Apple and the Google Nexus 7 tablets. The upgraded Wi-Fi specifications from its predecessor Kindle Fire and increased processing clout would make it run 41 per cent faster than the latest version of the Apple tablet computer, the new iPad, which was launched earlier this year and become most sold tablets devices in the market, about two-thirds of the global market share in tablets market.

As usual, Amazon will offer three versions of the Kindle Fire HD tablets.

The Kindle Fire HD 7-inch will cost $199 and on sale in the US market on September 14, while the new iPad challenging larger version, the 16 GB of memory of Kindle Fire HD will cost $299 and will go on sale on November 20. For the third version of Kindle Fire HD, Amazon take the bold step by taking the popular selling price for Apple tablets, at $499 as same as the new iPad. However, it challenges the new iPad by adding ultra-fast 4G LTE wireless and doubling the storage.