Tag: Amazon Kindle Fire

Does Amazon’s $50 tablet success explain Apple’s iPad woes?

Thursday, February 4, 2016 12:07 pmThursday, February 4, 201635 Comments

In the fourth quarter of 2015, which includes the tablet-friendly holiday season, sales for all devices…

New HP Slate 7 spotlights company’s lack of vision

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:01 pmTuesday, February 26, 201328 Comments

It’s crystal clear that HP doesn’t have anything special to bring to the table…

Amazon’s anti-Apple iPad mini ad backfires; ad pulled after fact-check flop

Saturday, November 3, 2012 6:50 pmSaturday, November 3, 201231 Comments

Negative ads seem to work better on voters than consumers…

Spec Shootout: Apple iPad vs. Google Nexus 7 vs. Amazon Kindle Fire vs. Microsoft Surface

Thursday, June 28, 2012 5:31 pmThursday, June 28, 201244 Comments

Google announced its first direct foray into the tablet market on Wednesday with the Nexus 7…

Why the Google Android tablet market is even weaker than it seems

Thursday, March 8, 2012 11:58 am28 Comments

The most under-covered story in technology is the sorry state of the Google Android tablet market…

29% of tiny screen Kindle Fire owners plan to spend more at Amazon, but only 54% very satisfied

Friday, February 3, 2012 5:27 pm9 Comments

Research firm ChangeWave conducted a survey in January of over 2,600 North American consumers…

Conan O’Brien: Kindle Fire apology from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (with video)

Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:26 pmWednesday, December 21, 201133 Comments

Conan O’Brien and “Team Coco” tqke a look at Amazon’s Kindle Fire…

Tablet display shootout: Apple iPad ‘excellent,’ Amazon Kindle Fire ‘major flaws’

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 5:44 pmTuesday, December 20, 201115 Comments

Amazon advertises that the Kindle Fire has an ‘anti-reflective treatment’ but our lab tests found it to have among the highest reflectance levels we have ever measured…

Instapaper creator reviews Amazon’s tiny screen Kindle Fire: Bad game player, bad app platform, bad web browser, bad video player and bad Kindle

Friday, November 18, 2011 9:33 amFriday, November 18, 201127 Comments

It’s not an iPad competitor or alternative; whatever it is, it’s a bad version of it…

PCWorld reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Flawed, unimpressive, subpar; can’t hold a candle to iPad

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:10 pmWednesday, November 16, 201136 Comments

Amazon’s Kindle Fire fails to impress as either a tablet or as an e-reader…

Engadget reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Sluggish, clunky, too limiting and restricted

Monday, November 14, 2011 8:46 amMonday, November 14, 201114 Comments

When stacked up against other popular tablets, the Fire can’t compete…

NY Times’ Pogue reviews Amazon’s tiny-screen Kindle Fire: Sluggish, ornery, unpolished

Monday, November 14, 2011 8:34 amMonday, November 14, 201124 Comments

Amazon’s new Kindle Fire is “a chunky-thick, seven-inch, shiny black tablet…