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Kindle Fire Grabs 14 Percent Share Of The Tablet Market

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has been one of the true runaways hits in the tablet market, as of late. Just a while ago, in the third quarter of 2011, Amazon’s share in the tablet market was zero percent. Quite simply because Amazon has no tablet out there and was simply producing e-book readers. Then Amazon released Kindle Fire at the start of Q4 and within one quarter, this tablet was able to grab a huge 14 percent of the tablet market! This is what a new report from IHS Suppli says.

TouchWrite Enables Handwriting Recognition On Kindle Fire

After the initial uproar Kindle Fire generated in the tablet market, things have been rather quiet on the Kindle front. Also, we haven’t heard of many such apps for the tablet which would have dazzled us. But now, with the introduction of TouchWrite, it seems that Kindle Touch finally has something awesome to boast about. TouchWrite can convert letters and number written in normal handwriting on the screen into digital content. The app has a huge scope in the world of book creation and writing.

Amazon Will Release 9-inch Kindle Fire In 2012

It seems like Amazon is finally preparing to up the competition against Apple’s iPad line of tablets. While Amazon earlier didn’t say that Kindle Fire was a competitor to iPad, the tone of the company has changed recently. And now, rumors are on the go that Amazon may decide to release a 9-inch Kindle Fire by the end of second quarter of 2012. This has been claimed by Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley.

Kindle Fire Still Pales In Comparison With The iPad

Kindle has seen a glorious year. It has experienced exponential growth and slowly has become everybody’s favourite. Even analysts had to revisit their predictions concerning the device. Like Jordan Rohan who admitted that he had to change his fourth-quarter estimates for Kindle Fire to 6 million, after previously predicting 5 million units sold.

Amazon Drops Kindle Fire Orders To Half As New iPad 3 Launch Draws Closer

The launch date of iPad 3 is reportedly in February and the actual release of the device will come in March. As a result, is is being expected that Amazon’s Kindle Fire will have it’s sales affected greatly by the new Apple tablet. Amazon made some major sales during the holiday season. But as soon as the holiday season was over, Kindle Fire’s sales slowed. And now with a new iPad coming, the sales for Kindle Fire will slow down further. According to the estimates, Amazon’s Kindle Fire orders will fall from 6 million in Q4 2011 to 3 million in Q1 2012.

Amazon Updates Kindle Fire with Bigger Browser, Better Email

As the next generation iPad approaches to the release date, rumored to be in February or March, Amazon decided to offer more appeal to its much praised tablet, Kindle Fire, believed to be one of the main challengers to iPads’ supremacy. Amazon announced a new version, 6.2.2 of software that powers Kindle Fire, which comes with a set of important improvements.

Is A Google Tablet On It’s Way To Compete With Kindle Fire?

A number of rumors about a Google Tablet have been doing rounds online. These rumors gained particular traction after Google’s Chairman, Eric Schmidt said in a statement that Google plans to launch a tablet of the highest quality. More recently, DigiTimes reported that Google is currently in the process of producing a 7-inch class tablet. The important question, will Google be able to cut into a market dominated primarily by the high-end iPad and secondarily by the cheap, affordable Kindle Fire?

Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Responsible for 7 Inch Tablet Demand?

Kindle Fire just won’t stop growing. And even if that’s very good news for Amazon, we are hearing reports of people being actually worried that they will be left out in the cold with no Fire to heat up their living rooms for Christmas. One solution is that they reconsider and go out to buy a Barnes&Noble Nook Tablet instead. Nooks have been doing great as well, feeding the apparently growing need for 7-inch tablets of the population.