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frahse · 09-26-2011, 07:36 PM

The word I have gotten says that Amazon used the same company that produced Blackberry for a lot of the hardware to save time. Amazon used their own UI.

Also
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/amazon-kindle-fire/

Kindle "Fire" 2nd week Nov - ship
custom UI
TI dual-core OMAP chip. Probably 1.2Gz

As for the name. Remember you use kindling or twigs to start a fire.
Did anyone see the "twigs" model, or was that an abandoned prototype?

09-26-2011, 07:36 PM	#17
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	The word I have gotten says that Amazon used the same company that produced Blackberry for a lot of the hardware to save time. Amazon used their own UI. Also http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/amazon-kindle-fire/ Kindle "Fire" 2nd week Nov - ship custom UI TI dual-core OMAP chip. Probably 1.2Gz As for the name. Remember you use kindling or twigs to start a fire. Did anyone see the "twigs" model, or was that an abandoned prototype? Last edited by frahse; 09-26-2011 at 07:42 PM.