Sunday, September 29, 2013

Amazon Introduces New Kindle Fire HDX - Vanguardia.com.mx

Seattle, USA. – Amazon ³ presents its new line of tablets with new Kindle Fire devices called HDX, which are significantly more s rà lipids and lighter than the previous generation.

versions 7 and 8.9 inches also © n have a display of greater resolution ³ n and more s colors than previous models, as well as more s pixels per inch iPad last-generation.

To help n is not familiar with tablets, the new Kindle come with a prestacià ³ n called “Mayday” (Relief) that allows users to connect with a customer representative on a small video screen ± . These people can explain the features or virtual writing troubleshoot. They can even take control of the tablet remotely.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of the company, made the presentation n to reporters on Tuesday, saying it is something “completely à º nico” that harnesses the massive force on Computing in the cloud infrastructure and customer service from Amazon.

“One should never be afraid of a device,” Bezos said.

In a show, Bezos Asked to a representative on the screen to recommend a good application. The representative I mentioned ³ “Angry Birds: Star Wars II”. Bezos also © n He received instructions on how to set boundaries of time to different activities for the kids ± os.

Although the new Kindle have large improvements, Amazon dropped to 138 dollars the price of which will be the model most s bà psycho, 7-inch Kindle Fire HD with 8 gigabytes of memory, compared to 199 dollars costing before with 16 GB of memory. That means that the tablet costs just 20 dollars more than the reader s ebooks s most recent from Amazon, the Kindle Paperwhite. For its part, the Kindle Fire has a cover HD ³ n magnesium aleacià similar to HDX models, but the screen has the same resolution ³ n and processing power than the previous model. However, the camera eliminates à ½ the front microphone HD model ± or last year.

Stephen Baker, an analyst with the consumer technology market research firm NPD Group, said n The reduction of price of the new Kindle Fire HD will make more s to help Amazon compete in the tablet market that addition of features in the new models.

In the period of May to July, the models Kindle accounted for 17% of all tablets sold in the U.S., in comparison ³ n with 48% of the Apple iPad and 8% of the line Galaxy Samsung, according to NPD.

Globally, the Amazon Kindle shipments fell 59% in comparison ³ n with the same period the year ± or earlier, to 470,000, indicating ³ NPD. That compares with 14.6 million iPad units (17% less than a year ago ± o) and 10.8 million of the Galaxy line of Samsung, which increases ³ s more than six times in comparison with the year ³ n ± or above.

HDX models come with 800 Snapdragon processor, four cores and manufactured by Qualcomm, the more s advanced for tablets.

By Ryan Nakashima / AP

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