Will online retailer giant, Amazon announce its new Kindle Fire tablet during the press conference on Sept. 6 in Santa Monica, California?
Kindle Fire is currently priced at $199 and provided stiff competition for Apple's iPads. It was the second-most popular tablet last year selling 4.7 million units in the fourth quarter. Amazon sold 1.2 million units in the second quarter of 2012. TG DAILY predicts that the company may even try to lower the cost of its original Kindle Fire to $149.
Though the company has not officially commented, it is largely expected there will be a new tablet from Amazon this year. Specs and prices can only be speculative at this point. Kindle Fire has competition from Google's Nexus 7 and Barnes & Noble's Nook tablets.
The new Kindle Fire is reportedly to have a 10-inch screen, screen resolution of 1280x800 and may have front-lit Kindle eReader.
According to TG DAILY, In addition to 7-inch tablets, Amazon is reportedly working on 8.9-inch and 10.1-inch tablets models, although development of the 8.9-inch has supposedly already been halted. The 10.1-inch iteration, however, is slated to debut during the fourth quarter of 2012 or the first quarter of 2013.
"Google will [also] enter the market with an inexpensive, co-branded ASUS tablet designed to compete directly on price with Amazon's Kindle Fire," Tom Mainelli, IDC analyst told reporters. "The search giant's new tablet will run a pure version of Android, whereas the Fire runs Amazon's own forked version of the OS that cuts Google out of the picture."
