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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
If Amazon produced a tablet with the following specs and locked in to the Amazon ecosystem (apps, books, music, video, cloud, etc), it would be a runaway hit: - Android 2.3 Gingerbread or 3.0 Honeycomb
- 1.0 GHz single core processor, 512MB RAM
- 1024x600 IPS display
- WiFi b/g/n only
- 8-16GB onboard storage
- microSD card slot
- NO cameras, NO GPS, NO HDMI out, NO 3G
- Price: $225-239
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Do you think the IPS screen would really gain them that much over the Nook? Except for the screen and the price, you've essentially described a Nook. (Okay, the Nook has 8GB of onboard memory, whereas your hypothetical device would have up to 16, but once you give it a microSD card, I don't think capacity is much of a consideration.)
I'm sure there
is something Amazon can do to distinguish the upcoming tablet, but what worries me is that I don't know what it is. What will they be able to do with their tablet that they wouldn't be able to do by putting their software on everyone else's tablet?