Here is a recap of the tweets from this morning’s announcement from Amazon for their new Kindle Touch’s and Kindle Fire. Bottom line: The new Fire for $199 with tons of features/services, the black/white Touch 3G is $149 or WiFi for$99, and a super affordable and ultra-sleek new Kindle for just $79
Posted in reverse chronological order.
- Link to the $79 Kindle with all other models at bottom of the page.amazon.com/gp/product/B00…
#kindle - Two Kindle Fire’s on Pre-Order 🙂
#kindle - Order here: amazon.com/gp/product/B00…
#kindle - Bottom line: It’s Fire for $199, Touch 3G for $149, Touch for $99, and Kindle for $79.
#kindle - I do like that all the content is stored in the cloud. It’s been so frustrating being slaved to iTunes on a specific computer
#kindle - Available to pre-order today – ships on Nov 15th.
#kindle - End users won’t care about the techie browser feature as long as it is simple and fast.
#kindle - Amazon Silk browser – splits processing/rendering page between the device and the cloud computing center – better, faster, etc
#kindle - Today’s announcement is very material and beginning of the real end of print media…
#kindle - The Kindle will arrive to you pre-registered with your device credentials – ready to go. A nice contrast to my first iPad setup.
#kindle - Incredible how Blackberry just failed with their Playbook. Yet Amazon can pick it up and make it a winner with UI and an ecosystem
#kindle - Delete anything off and get it back anytime.. Everything stored long-term for you in the Amazon Cloud
#kindle - What if Whispersync also worked with movies and TV Shows? Well, it does. Pick up anywhere you left off.
#kindle - 100,000 movies and TV shows, 17 million songs, access to the Android Appstore, Kindle books…
#kindle - Kindle Fire: 7-inch IPS display, dual-core processor, 14.6 ounces.
#kindle - Photo of the new Kindle Fire: engt.co/oev4Fs – clean, sleek, understated… Love it
#kindle - Announcing the new Kindle Fire now…
#kindle - “In terms of service… Amazon is Coke and their is no Pepsi” – Great quote from Jeff Bezos
#kindle - I don’t buy alot of music and when I do it’s via my iphone via itunes…
#kindle - Amazon also has a MP3 store with 17 million songs, some as cheap as $.69, and all playable anywhere via the Cloud Player
#kindle - Our family loves Amazon Prime – we use it almost every day – mostly for diapers! 😉
#kindle - Amazon Prime, with free two-day shipping for $79 a year. Millions of members, says Jeff.
#kindle - Amazon’s Prime Instant Video has 11,000 movies and TV shows commercial-free for no extra cost.
#kindle - It’s incredible how quickly Amazon has innovated in this space.
#kindle - The $79 Kindle Touch is under 6 oz and 18% smaller than the Kindle 3
#kindle - Jeff said that the Amazon Offers are now much more relevant… Local spam vs distant spam 🙂
#kindle - The $79 Kindle is available to ship today.
#kindle - For $79, you can get the Kindle Touch, without the touch screen, (has 5 buttons at the bottom) – incredible new price point.
#kindle - The new Kindle Touch WiFi is now $99. Pre-orders begin now. Shipping Nov 21st
#kindle - Engadget also has a great liveblog with photo’s “Live from Amazon’s tablet event in NYC!” engt.co/obvZMI
#kindle - The new Kindle Touch – sized like the Kindle 3 but has no buttons/keys. It has a e-ink touch screen to change pages/menus.
#kindle - Bloomberg Article: Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet – Bloomberg bloom.bg/qIIZdf
#kindle - I’ve bought about 10 Kindles for our team, family and friends… Kindle 1’s, much improved 2’s and awesome Kindle 3’s
#kindle - Now: Live blogging the
@amazon@Kindle announcement on twitter.com/paulhelmick#kindle - Amazon says “Buy Once. Read Anywhere”
#kindle - Four years ago Amazon had 90,000 books. Today we’re over a million — and that doesn’t include the copyright-free texts.
#kindle - Amazon’s ecosystem enabling a tool like this is amazing. Books, Videos, Music, Products. Customers & Developers should be thrilled.
#kindle - Jeff Bezos on stage now… Thinking back at all that Amazon has accomplished is incredible…
#kindle - Kindle users LOVE their e-readers. The book had been around for 5 centuries – improving on it is a challenge!
#kindle