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Showing posts with label Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2. Show all posts

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Amazon To Launch Low Cost Kindle Fire Tablets with MediaTek MT8135 Quad Core SoC in Q1 2014

Taiwan Economic Daily News Reporting that Asia's Mobile Phone Chip Leader MediaTek has landed order for its MT8135 big.LITTLE MP SoC from Amazon.The company will use this chip in its low cost Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet and will rill release the device in first Half of 2014.


Volume production for Quad Core Chips has been started by this month.The chipset consits of two clusters :Dual Cortex A15 cores and Dual Cortex A7 Cores and in this both A15 and A7 cores perform simultaneously.In the original big.LITTLE architecure only one cluster works at same time depends on WorkLoad. It also features a powerVR Series 6 GPU(PowerVR 6200) which can deliver four times the Arithemetic Logic Units(ALU) power than its Predecessor.The Chipset also supports Wireless Certified Miracast

The Main USP of MediaTek is its low cost.MediaTek chips has already been used by Acer,Asus and lenevo and now It will be used by American Giant Amazon.So this is almost cleared that company will create troubles for World Leader Qualcomm as it has knocked doors in its Best market.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2 will be announced by the end of August

Amazon Kindle Fire HD was widely appreciated by public and if we believed in reports it is the second most desired tablets line-up after Apple's iPad.Now the second generation Kindle Fire HD 2 will be announced by the end of August or the beginning of September according to Supply Chain Sources of Amazon from taiwan.


Amazon is preparing to launch three new Kindle HD 2 tablets and this will be replacement for current Kindle tablets and compal electronics(second largest contract laptop manufacturer) already received the orders to ship 1 million units of next gen tablet

major changes which are confirmed in Kindle Fire HD 2

1) change of screen resolution: 
  • Amazon kindle Fire HD 2 7 inch the entry level tablet comes with 1280*800 resolution 
  • Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2 another 7 inch tablet comes with 1920*1200 resolution
  • Amazon Kindle Fire HD 2 8.9 inch tablet with 2560*1600 resolution

2) Design Changes 

The corners are not rounded and there is angular design with flat slope out to the edges.While Volume and power buttons which are now present on sides are shifted to back to avoid accidental clicks.
The new tablets is also expected to be lighter than current version tablets