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Added by Gauss on 10.07.2012 |
To ship in Q3 2012?
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It looks like Amazon’s next Kindle Fire will ship in Q3, and will feature an improved Display. Tablet wars will surely get very interesting...
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That's right, the "low-budget tablet wars" will get a lot more interesting.
In addition to the recently announced Google's Nexus 7 and the rumored -but almost confirmed- Apple's iPad Mini, seems that Amazon also plans to release an "upgraded" version of its Kindle Fire.
According to AllThingsD, Amazon's Kindle Fire successor will ship later this year, and will feature a thinner profile, a 1,280 x 800 resolution display and a built-in camera.
The next iteration of the Fire will be thinner and lighter than the original. It will also have a built-in camera and a much-improved display.
And, more importantly, developers familiar with the device have been instructed to build their apps for a display with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, which is a bit different than the 1024 x 600 display of the current Kindle Fire.
Not only will that apparently make it sharper and more vibrant, it will give it a different aspect ratio, as well. In other words, the display has an entirely new width-to-height ratio.
“The really interesting thing here is that the screen shape is changing slightly: From an aspect ratio of 1.71 (tall and narrow in its standard Portrait mode) to an aspect ratio of 1.60,” DisplayMate President Raymond Soneira told AllThingsD, when asked about what that means.
Notably, that’s a fairly common aspect ratio in the tablet market. The 10.1-inch Toshiba Thrive and the Acer Iconia tablets both use 1280 x 800 displays. So, too, does Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet.
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Yes, that's a "67 percent increase in total pixels" and will give the display a PPI (pixels per inch) of 216.
So, we don't know the exact unit's price and internal specs, and of course, there's no official confirmation as of yet. But it's pretty possible.
Stay tuned for more details in the upcoming weeks!
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Amazon's next Kindle fire will ship in Q3 with improved display
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New Kindle Fire will feature 1280 x 800 resolution
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