New Android tablet from Amazon: Kindle Fire

Amazon announced Kindle Fire 7" Android Tablet($199). Preorders are available starting today. Kindle Fire should be released on November 15.



The tablet runs a heavily-modified version of Google's Android OS. It features WiFi support, but lacks 3G support. Also it doesn't have a camera. It has 8GB of internal storage, although the intent is to stream most content directly from Amazon Cloud Storage.

Features:

• Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon's revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser
• 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books
• Amazon Appstore - thousands of popular apps and games
• Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk
• Free 5GB cloud storage for all your Amazon content
• Vibrant color touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle
• Fast, powerful dual-core processor
• Amazon Prime members enjoy unlimited, instant streaming of over 10,000 popular movies and TV shows

Kindle Fire gives you immediate access to all of your Amazon cloud-based media. Kindle Fire gives you access to:

• Amazon Instant Video, a streaming service that hosts up to 100,000 movies and TV shows;
• Amazon MP3 Store, a music store with 17 million songs;
• Amazon Kindle Store, a book store with over 1 million books;
• and (possibly) Amazon's Appstore for Android, which is home to over 200,000 Android apps.

Another good thing is that Amazon usually had lower prices than iTunes Store, so you should be able to spend less onto mp3 music, video and ebooks.