So I got a Kindle...(or Nook, I-PAD)
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So I got a Kindle...(or Nook, I-PAD)
Just got a Kindle, hooray Christmas. anything cool I can do to it? or media I should add to it?
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Re: So I got a Kindle...(or Nook, I-PAD)
alpha wrote:Just got a Kindle
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yeah, moving on...Seiko Flossberg wrote:alpha wrote:Just got a Kindle
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kindle fire looks pretty ill (it has colour and full motion video)
which is making the other kindles way cheaper. so i wanted to ask how easy it is to get .pdf files going on your kindle. deepfriedjellol when you say convert do you mean to kindle format or pdf or what?
kindle fire looks pretty ill (it has colour and full motion video)
which is making the other kindles way cheaper. so i wanted to ask how easy it is to get .pdf files going on your kindle. deepfriedjellol when you say convert do you mean to kindle format or pdf or what?
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The new Kindle will change the tablet industry (for the better) forever.Thun wrote:That's for e-ink. Isn't the Kindle Fire a full on color screen running Android?deepfriedjellol wrote:pdf's onto kindle suck ass cause of the small screen
if you zoom in you tend to fuck up formatting
theyre easy to convert, but like i said, formatting is dick
ipad, shit's perf
A $200 android machine that's the size of the Samsung Galaxy Tab II from the greatest customer service oriented company of all time. It's not a tablet PC like the iPad (or most other Androids for that matter), it's a tablet media consumption device. It was designed for you to read the new "Hunger Games," then play Angry Birds, then watch The Wonder Years then jerk off to PornHub then read some more "Hunger Games." You probably won't be able to do a lot more than that, at least for a while, but for most people, that will suffice.
Apple will likely respond (next year) with a smaller machine, or a less expensive version of what they have. The other companies simply won't be able to compete, and Amazon will get more and more people to sign up to Amazon Prime, the CostCo membership of the internet, which is their business model for the foreseeable future. This in turn will cause them to get bigger and bigger, to the point that they'll set up shipment centers all across the country, serving up products to more people faster than ever. Eventually they'll sell produce and groceries all over the country with same day or next-day delivery. If I had to guess, I'd say this will happen by 2013 (they already have a pilot grocery program in Seattle).
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Yeah, Amazon will kill it with these new tablets.
The great thing about them is that most people who buy anything at all online are bound to have an Amazon account. That's what was so great about the iPad - you could turn it on, log in, and immediately start buying music, movies, apps etc.
On this new Kindle you're going to be able to use LoveFilm, buy books, music, all types of stuff, right out of the box. I doubt Amazon are making much money (if any) on the tablet itself - it's just a way to sell people shit.
The great thing about them is that most people who buy anything at all online are bound to have an Amazon account. That's what was so great about the iPad - you could turn it on, log in, and immediately start buying music, movies, apps etc.
On this new Kindle you're going to be able to use LoveFilm, buy books, music, all types of stuff, right out of the box. I doubt Amazon are making much money (if any) on the tablet itself - it's just a way to sell people shit.
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Yep. It's the tablet a lot of people will get their significant others for Christmas this year. Ask any dad what their kid wants more than anything and the answer is likely an iPad or iPod Touch. This is not an iPad competitor really, but it is definitely an iPod Touch competitor with a bigger screen. A parent is unlikely to buy a device like an iPod Touch if they can get a bigger, similarly spec'd device for their kid for less than a Nintendo 3DS. Regarding specs (and Thun's point), I can't think of a similarly spec'd device selling for so little money.Y@k Bollocks wrote:Yeah, they don't look great and I can't ever see myself buying one. But I think their target audience probably won't care. This is the tablet i'd probably get my mother.
Something the tech nerds are going nuts for is also the fact that this device is running Android 2.3, which was the last version of Android that is truly open source. Amazon has no intention of upgrading past this and the Fire has a completely reskinned version of Android running on it at this point. Couple that with the fact that the team behind WebOS (Personal Systems Group) are being sold off by HP and there's a pretty good theory that Amazon will buy the WebOS team and build something off of their (supposedly phenomenal) software.
The biggest advantage Amazon has is that they're only the second or third company out there that has so much consumer trust that most of our credit cards are on file with them. 1-Click purchasing is so easy for most of us that they don't care if they sell these at cost (or likely, at a loss) because their research shows that Amazon Prime users buy four times as much stuff as their non-Prime having counterparts.
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