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A touchscreen Kindle with 3G would be great and keep the Kindle ahead of its competitors, as well as showing loyalty to all the Kindle customers feeling a bit left out by all the lighter touchscreen devices out there and willing to jump to them if they feel they're being treated like second-class citizens, like Netflix DVD subscribers pushed towards Qwikster. The rumor part about Amazon's Kindle team not working on the tablet also bodes well for new non-tablet Kindles.
New Kindles would also deflect a lot of the disappointment of an announcement of the Fire if it's just a retooled RIM Playbook and the 'this one's lame, but next year we'll get something that will actually compete with the ipad' approach, if the rumors are correct. Of course, by the time they get their true ipad competitor out, Apple will have the ipad 3, perhaps with a Retina display.
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