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And large Tablet Amazon announcements earlier today, he finally also unveiled first markets for shelves Kindle Fire - the new Kindle fire and the HD version - outside the United States. The new was to follow first in an advertisement of a forum on Amazon, which also announced the availability of new Kindle e-reader.
This announcement is more important that Amazon finally respond to the questions of when it would launch these tablets at the international level. It is a sign that he is preparing to turn taps on bottom and start really obtain a global scale for their device operation. Kindle readers have already been successful in the markets where they were launched and tablets, at competitive prices, the launch will be the Amazon first crack to really break the overall balance for the Tablet market, which has been largely dominated by Apple and the iPad, with very little progress of any provider of Android-based Tablet. Until, perhaps, now.
"Last year it y more than two dozen Tablet Android launched on the market and no one does bought them," CEO Jeff Bezos earlier boasts today in the presentation of Santa Monica.
Kindle Fire - the new version with a faster processor and 16 GB of memory - will sell for £129 ($ 200; in other words, at a premium for the United States price - says one commentator off as this includes 20% VAT tax and probably some latitude for currency fluctuations).
The HD model is version 7 inches, so the smaller of the two has unveiled today. The 16 GB version will sell for £159 (another higher award of $253); the 32 GB will sell for £199.
The new e-reader Kindle will sell for £69 ($109).
All are for pre-order.
Well that many people have been wondering when Amazon would finally move to launch the tablets of fire outside United States, the first comment of a user, just enough, was: "nothing on the white paper [sic] then.".
The news comes after several weeks in which Amazon has gradually filled with details on its retail activities and other services to the United Kingdom. He will partner with Amazon to sell devices. The company already had partnerships of retail Kindle with other companies, including the string huge supermarket Tesco, which may also carry the fire, but which has not yet been confirmed.
Also, he appeared on the Appstore in recent days in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Because the apps Android of Amazon on the market is also now live in other European countries, it is likely that the Kindle Fire tablets will also direct place in these markets soon - if not already.
Update: a reader points out that the same selection is also now living in France, with the new model Kindle Fire 7 inch for €159. The Germany has the same pricing model, such as the Spain and the Italy.
Update 2: we asked a spokesperson from Amazon on the Kindle Paperwhite: "Unfortunately, I will have to ask you to stay tuned," is his response. So we can see an appearance of this product at a given time; response again, clearly not "no plan", or a timeline.
Announcement completes below.
Introducing the all-new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD, as well as the all-new Kindle e-reader
Kindle Fire - the Kindle for films, television shows, music, books, magazines, apps, games and navigation and product # 1 best-selling web http://Amazon.com year last-is now available at the United Kingdom with a faster processor and twice the memory of the original Kindle fire, at a price of only £129 breakthrough.
Kindle Fire HD - brand new with a beautiful custom display of HD - provides faster Wi - Fi, exclusive audio Dolby with two stereo speakers and a processor high performance and graphics engine more immersive experience HD available on a 7? lightweight and portable tablet - all supported by the vast ecosystem contained of Amazon.co.uk, interoperability better cross-platform and the best service to the customer - for £159.
Select the vast collection of the Amazon digital content with more than 22 million movies, TV shows, songs, apps, games, books and magazines.
We've also introduced a new version of the best-selling e-Reader - the all-new Kindle world - always incredibly small and light, but now with more rapid page in turn, new fonts and control parental - and at a lower price of only £69.
Enjoy!
The Kindle team
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