Today Amazon announced the Amazon Kindle Fire, a hyper-aggressively price Android based tablet that’ll cost just $199. In what’s clearly a move to significantly undercut the iPad, the Kindle Fire is a tablet stripped down to its essential parts. It’s a seven-inch tablet, Wi-Fi only, no camera, no microphone and no 3G. One thing it does come with is a free 30-day subscription to Amazon Prime, which is just swell but hardy a major selling point.
We’re still a bit short on full specs, but we know that it has an IPS display, dual-core processor, and weighs a mere 14.6-ounces.
As expected, the Kindle Fire uses a heavily modified version of Android with a simpler and easier to use interface, and close integration with the Amazon App Store.
Simultaneously, Amazon announced an overhaul of the traditional Kindle units, with the base model now just $79, the Kindle Touch for $99 and Kindle Touch 3G for $149.
I’m sure the Kindle Fire will become the go-to affordable Android tablet as soon as someone roots it and throws stock Android on that thing.
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