Amazon prepping color Kindle w/ video streaming.

[boswd]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

and MP3's, and Audiobooks, and Streaming Video, and...


I'd think a tablet would certainly have a place in their lineup in addition to eInk readers.

and they have their own Android App store.

[OtterBooks]

I'm really curious to see if Amazon can pull this off, and what they have up their sleeve.

[ucfgrad93]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

I'd think a tablet would certainly have a place in their lineup in addition to eInk readers.

Agreed. Hopefully, they won't just drop their eink readers if they introduce a Kindle tablet.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sonist

If they do this, I'll part ways with Amazon.

Why would anyone buy the Amazon tablet, when the new, super hi-res iPad is just around the corner?

Nonsense and it's not going to be 2560x1920. That is not how Apple does things. And a new iPad won't be this year.

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by Sonist

If they do this, I'll part ways with Amazon.

Why would anyone buy the Amazon tablet, when the new, super hi-res iPad is just around the corner?

Why? Because a website, with the word "rumors" in the name, published an article about a rumor, that was based on conjecture from a report, that it self was speculation from an analyst. On top of it, I read the article they are referencing, and I saw no mention of anything related to the iPad (Yes, I can read chinese).

And as I said in the other thread, that doesn't make sense. Apple is pretty good about having a schedule for their devices. January they usually unveil some computers, April is iPads, June for iPhones, September for iPods. Occaisionally they'll have minor upgrades in between, and that is mostly for computers. Why would they rushing out a replacement for a device that was released about 2 months ago, and has been in short supply due to manufacturing issues? I wouldn't expect a new iPad till next April.

[Giggleton]

What I'd like is the ereader to be as streamlined as possible, possibly able to be rolled up or slid into the tablet for charging, and the tablet to be as multifunctional as possible while still retaining enough features to be useful for interactive ebooks.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Sonist

If they do this, I'll part ways with Amazon.

Why would anyone buy the Amazon tablet, when the new, super hi-res iPad is just around the corner?

some of us don't want to have anything to do with apple

[RainingLemur]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

some of us don't want to have anything to do with apple

But... THEY'RE MAGICAL! Or something. THEY JUST WORK! I think.

[poohbear_nc]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

some of us don't want to have anything to do with apple

Ditto. I really tried to adapt to an iPad 1 - but "traded" it in to Amazon for an Asus Transformer. The iPad looked great and K4iPad was also great - but smother it with iTunes, quasi-multitasking, locked iBooks, no SD slot, etc. - it wasn't worth the trouble. I don't want to have to be a computer geek to make a tablet work the way I want it to work. The Transformer will hold me until Amazon releases their tablet.

Say what you will about the evils of Amazon - their hardware works out of the box, requires no PC or advanced PC knowledge, and is backed up by Amazon's CS.

[Sonist]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Ditto. I really tried to adapt to an iPad 1 - but "traded" it in to Amazon for an Asus Transformer. ...

In fairness, you are comparing devices which are a year and a half apart -- it'd be like someone saying I tried an Android tablet in the beginning of 2010, and they all suck.

But my point was that Amazon needs to keep a large-size reflective reader in it's line up, regardless of the upcoming tablet.

From what I've heard, the Amazon tablet doesn't appear to offer anything significant to separate it from the myriad 16x9 10" tablets flooding the market -- it will most like be a reskinned Galaxy Tab, possibly subsidized to entice users to enter into Amazon's ecosystem.

But in my experience the Galaxy Tab is sub par to the iPad 2 in terms of user experience (before someone accuses me of evil things, I have gone through a Galaxy S, Vibrant and now I use a Nexus S).

So, again, I see nothing earth-shattering here.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

and MP3's, and Audiobooks, and Streaming Video, and...


I'd think a tablet would certainly have a place in their lineup in addition to eInk readers.

Which is what I said, no? In *addition*.

I don't doubt that Amazon should be looking at the business case for a multimedia tablet.
I just don't think they're willing to sacrifice Kindle market share for whatever multimedia revenue a tablet might bring. Whatever else they may do on the side, and Bezos explicitly said so: Kindle is about reading, not about adding features for the sake of adding them. The Kindle value proposition has never been about features but about ebook access. About selling ebooks, first second and last. And driving cost down is clearly their weapon of choice, witness the KSO.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't consider a touch Kindle, just that I don't think touch (or color) adds anything worth a premium price in an ebook reader.

[poohbear_nc]

@Sonist - I totally agree with your points. Regardless of what Amazon does offer, its real selling point will be its integration into the existing Amazon infrastructure: Android store, Cloud, Ebook store, Movies, etc. -- It's as if Amazon set up all the content features first - to which they can now offer customers a device fully integrated and ready to help customers start making purchases.

[Joonbug1]

i don't like the addition of bells and whistles to an ereader as it would provide distractions from the actual reading... but that's just me.

plus, anything this thing could do, an apple product could probably do better, and i'm not even an apple fanboy.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Sonist

In fairness, you are comparing devices which are a year and a half apart -- it'd be like someone saying I tried an Android tablet in the beginning of 2010, and they all suck.

But my point was that Amazon needs to keep a large-size reflective reader in it's line up, regardless of the upcoming tablet.

From what I've heard, the Amazon tablet doesn't appear to offer anything significant to separate it from the myriad 16x9 10" tablets flooding the market -- it will most like be a reskinned Galaxy Tab, possibly subsidized to entice users to enter into Amazon's ecosystem.

But in my experience the Galaxy Tab is sub par to the iPad 2 in terms of user experience (before someone accuses me of evil things, I have gone through a Galaxy S, Vibrant and now I use a Nexus S).

So, again, I see nothing earth-shattering here.

annnnnd maybe we just need to sit here in the bleachers and see what they come out with

[ucfgrad93]

Originally Posted by Joonbug1

i don't like the addition of bells and whistles to an ereader as it would provide distractions from the actual reading... but that's just me.

Agreed. That is why I hope they keep something like the Kindle 3 around. It is a one-trick pony, but it does it very well.