This week the teams responsible for pushing as many Kindles as possible this holiday season have hit upon a rather lucrative business: custom-made covers. What Amazon intends on doing here is offering up a service that would normally be done by a variety of 3rd-party accessory makers, doing the work themselves to make the whole […]
Here near the end of 2013 the comic adventure universe of Calvin & Hobbes has reached the digital realm at last, being presented as a set of ebooks for several platforms. While it’s not entirely clear whether this is the doing of Bill Watterson himself or those that he’d battled for years over the rights […]
If you’re in the market for new tablet and you like Amazon’s Fire HDX line, the company announced that its latest tablet began shipping this week. As of yesterday the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HDX tablet began shipping to customers around the world.
The tablet promises three times the processing power, two times the memory, and four times the graphics performance of previous generation Kindle Fire tablets. Its stunning 8.9-inch screen has resolution of 2560×1600 and a pixel density of 339 ppi. It runs the Fire OS 3.0 Mojito operating system.
The $379(USD) tablet has 16 GB of storage and includes special offers, which are ads. If you don’t want the special offers to show up, the tablet will cost $394 for the Wi-Fi only model. The 32 GB tablet starts at $429 with the 64 GB version starting at $479. Wi-Fi/4G LTE versions are available starting at $494. The top of the line 64GB LTE model goes for $594, which is a steal when you realize that the equivalent iPad goes for $829.
Like the 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX released last month, this new 8.9-inch HDX hitting the market today shows that Amazon is no longer interested in skimping on its mobile hardware.
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Look around any gathering involving kids and, these days, it’s likely that there are plenty of tablets floating around, too. But have you ever seen kids hunched over an e-reader in the same way?
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The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is the second half of what Amazon hopes will be a one-two knockout punch to rival tablets, sliming down the last-gen Fire HD 8.9 and boosting speed and screen resolution in the process. As we found with the 7-inch Fire HDX, that can make for a compelling slate if you’re […]
Back in the year 2000, futurist Frank Feather looked into his crystal ball and predicted that Quixtar would be one of the biggest retail websites of 2010
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After months of deliberation, the FAA finally announced last week that it is going to relax restrictions on use of personal electronic devices such as tablets and e-readers during certain phases of the flight. Delta and JetBlue have become the first airlines to allow passengers to use their personal electronic devices gate-to-gate. To celebrate the FAA’s new rules with regards to electronic device use, Amazon has decided to offer several Kindle products at a discount for one day only.
If you’ve been holding out on buying a Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire HDX 7 or the Kindle then today would be the perfect day to go ahead, as Amazon is offering a flat 15 percent discount on their prices. To receive the discount, customers simply need to enter the “ThnksFAA” promo code at checkout. The 15 percent discount brings Kindle Fire HDX 7′s price down to $195, Kindle Fire HD’s to $118 whereas the entry level Kindle can be purchased today for just $59. Unfortunately, the FAA love doesn’t extend to Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon’s popular e-reader. Nevertheless, its a good deal by the online retailer, one that is likely to entice quite a few customers. As previously mentioned, this promotion is only being run for one day, today.
Amazon Kindles Receive Discount To Celebrate FAA’s New Rules original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Amazon has decidedly announced their full support of the new FAA ruling for in-flight device use with not only a suggestion that they’ve always done so, but that they’re willing to let their device prices prove it. Amazon Kindle prices have been kicked down a notch for a single day by the company suggesting they’re […]
You’re excited the FAA isn’t going to make you
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