Kindle Fire HD and HDX Kindle Fire: Amazon launches new Tablet PCs

The new Kindle Fire tablet HDX are the flagships in Amazon's hardware range.

Kindle Fire HD: Seven-inch tablet for 129 euros

Amazon attacks: For the "small purse" held by the company immediately to Kindle Fire HD ready. This is an updated version of the previous model. Despite the low price (the phone does at prices from 129 euros over the counter) is to get a modern tablet computer, the customer.For this equips the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD with an HD display (resolution: 1280x800 pixels, pixel density of 216 ppi), a 1.5-GHz processor (Dual Core), stereo speakers and wireless off.

Lightweight and compact

The approximately 350 grams, the device you use entirely via the touch screen, start button and volume controls are located on the back and allow the control without changing the grip.

The cloud comes free

The purchase price is unlimited storage in the Amazon Cloud, where you put as your purchased from the online retailer Music from (CD purchases land there in parallel as MP3, when available for the album's "AutoRip" function), download ebooks from the Kindle store or store your other data.

Kindle Fire HD: Pricing, Availability

Kindle Fire HD is available with eight gigabytes of storage for 129 euros and 159 euros for 16 gigabytes. Amazon then displayed on the lock screen but a promotion. Without advertising the tablet PC cost 144 and 174 euros. All models are now available for order and will begin shipping on 24/10/2013.

HDX Kindle Fire: Fast and super high-resolution

Who needs a better screen and more power to keep the Amazon Fire tablet HDX ready. They are available in two versions - with seven-inch display (resolution 1920x1200 pixels with a pixel density of 323 ppi) or 8.9-inch display (2560x1600 pixels, 339 ppi). In all HDX devices, a faster 2.2 GHz Snapdragon processor 800 operates with four cores. The data memory is either 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes.

Precious Features

The Kindle Fire 7 HDX has a front camera (720p), while the larger Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 also has an eight-megapixel camera. Available, the HDX tablets with either Wi-Fi or with Wi-Fi / LTE, and LTE speed is realized at the start only via the Vodafone mobile network. Also on board: stereo speakers, Bluetooth, a battery with up to eleven hours of run time, and - as with the Kindle Fire HD - unlimited cloud storage for the above functions.

Kindle Fire HDX: Pricing, Availability

The Kindle Fire 7 HDX there at prices ranging from 229 euros (16 gigabytes of storage, display advertising) and 404 euros (64 GB, LTE, ad-free). It is available from 13.11.2013; pre-orders are now open. Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 you get at prices ranging from 379 euros (16 GB, advertising) and 594 euros (64 GB, LTE, ad-free). These devices are pre-order now, and delivered from 19.11.2013.

In Free Time mode you unlock apps and eBooks for your children. Other content do not get to see the offspring.

Installed on all devices: Fire OS 3.0

Also new is the operating system "Fire OS 3.0" (code name: Mojito), which is based on Android 4.2.2 and Amazon has provided some interesting features. The device automatically sets the home screen in a so-called carousel from the apps that you use most frequently or most recently, all other programs can be accessed via an underlying grid. Fire eBooks treated like the way OS apps, each book comes with its own cover on the screen. If you like, but the books also sorted into folders. parents is interesting for "Free Time": With this function, turn the Tablet PC into a "kids mode". On a different color to the traditional desktop interface where you place the apps that will get to see your kids about games or children's books. You also specify how long surf, play or be able to read the little daily. If the timeout is reached, nothing more. By the way: From the free-time mode, there is no escape for the children - only with a password returns the Kindle tablet PC back to normal surface. 

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Dell Venue Pro and 11 Pro 8: two new, powerful tablet with Windows 8.1

The Venue Pro 8 features an 8-inch IPS display, the Venue Pro 11 on a 11-inch display and a powerful "Haswell" processor. Both Windows 8.1 installed.

Windows tablet with attachable keyboard, as many come out the Microsoft Surface tablets in mind. But Dell has with the two new tablets Venue and Venue Pro 8 11 Pro now two similar models with Windows 8.1 introduced. With the Dell Mobile Tablet Keyboard the Tablet is transformed into a notebook, the Dell tablet Desktop Dock to a correct screen.

Dell Venue Pro 11 Tablet with Keyboard

8 Venue Pro with Windows 8.1

The Dell Venue Pro 8 is an 8-inch tablet with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels . Inside, a new infected Z3740D quad-core Intel Atom processor, the Bay Trail generation with 1:33 GHz and 2 GB RAM .We recommend the version with 64 GB of data storage . On the back benefit a 5-megapixel camera on the front and a 1.2 megapixel cam with.Likewise, WiFi , Bluetooth 4.0 , as well as practical, a micro USB port and a microSD card slot included.

11 Venue Pro for discerning

The Dell Venue Pro 11  with full HD resolution is supported by a quad-core Intel Atom Z3770 processor with a clock speed of 2.4 GHz driven. In addition also get 2 GB of memory. Recommended is also the version with 64 GB of data storage . This can be expanded via micro SD card slot. Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and a Micro HDMI output are also ready.

Prices and availability

According to Dell, that's Venue Pro 8 from 18 October, the Venue Pro 11  from 07 November available. The 8-inch tablet is available for around $ 300, the price of the 11-inch tablet is not yet clear.

Video: Dell Venue Pro 8 and 11

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Samsung Galaxy Round vs. LG G Flex: embittered Media Race for flexible displays

The day has been in the absence of other sensations, all about the flexible displays. After the issue in the past week have taken had it today a new clash of the two driving forces, Samsung and LG. Had only informed that their stretchable display is now in mass production since the latter. A tablet with the new 6-inch surface could thus be ready for the market in November, confessed to Reuters and thus is in line with earlier news. The LG OLED panel is supposed to be only 0.44 mm thin and weighs 7.2 g. The bend is concave, along the vertical axis - like the drawing from our previous report . Whether actually or perhaps LG LG Flex Z ,, there was no new information. Shortly afterwards came the next message relating to flexible screens in South Korea, this time by rival Samsung. The smartphone market leader stressed that it is much faster and even longer in mass production for their own development. At first, I was reminiscent of the early Cold War, when the Russians and the Americans had come with their space programs for bitter propaganda race. Korean media reported in the last week of a timely introduction within the next five days. The flexible OLED Samsung is reported differently zuvir, 5.7-inches tall, weighs only 5.2 grams and even barely visible 0.12 millimeters thin. To become standard pixel density early-adopter must probably do without, because the resolution of the new screen surface area is 1920 x 1080 pixels. In addition to the maximum radius of the Samsung OLED can be bent to be larger than the competition from LG. At the same time also appeared the alleged name "Galaxy Round" in the media. This should have the same Hardware specs, like the Galaxy Note 3 Unlike LG like a banana the display from Samsung is apparently not bent, but falls on the long sides towards the outside. Prototypes of its Youm displays Samsung leads for over one and a half years on the major mobile measuring ago. The curved outer surface has always represented as an extra button or for alerts, for example in the form of a treadmill. Basically, this new OLED panels are thinner, lighter and more resilient than their previously established Glass pendants. The flexible character of course does not yet have on the form factor, since the rest of the smartphone is still rigid. Futurists, the reason for the meaning of all the questions (after looking at the reactions of a subject), should see the first models as an intermediate step because of flexible components such as batteries and memory blocks being researched and developed in parallel so that the fold-able mobile gadget with every day a bit closer. But before standing at the premiere models from LG, Samsung, respectively, and there can manufacture both currently still limited quantities per month, Samsung Galaxy and LG G Round Flex will certainly have their exclusive price.

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Microsoft: smartphones, "the biggest regret" Steve Ballmer

Microsoft boss, who will leave the company next year, acknowledged having missed the turn of smartphones was "the thing he regretted most."

The head of Microsoft Steve Ballmer , who is leaving the group , acknowledged Thursday that his biggest regret was to have missed the turn of the mobile , but for him the computer giant has not yet admitting defeat in this area.

"Virtually no market share"

"I wish there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do with Windows that we have not been able to redeploy talent to a new device called the smartphone. This is the thing I regret the most, "Ballmer said during a conference call with analysts. "It would have been better for Windows and our success in other forms" of products, has he added.

Market of smartphones and tablets are now dominated by Apple rivals (with the iPhone and iPad) and Google (many manufacturers use the Android software). Microsoft itself has "virtually no market share" in mobile devices, Ballmer conceded, but felt that the group had suddenly "growth opportunities."

For phones , it relies on the recently announced acquisition of mobile phones Nokia Finnish group , with which he was already working to produce smartphones running under Windows, the Lumia.

In tablets , the Surface launched last year has not wowed the audience. Microsoft has had to significantly lower prices , which resulted in a charge of nearly a billion dollars in its latest quarterly results. A new generation of these devices , however, must be presented next Monday.

No details on the successor to Ballmer

Beyond mobile devices, Microsoft, according to Ballmer, significant opportunities available in the services of cloud computing , online subscriptions for example its office suite Office or the search engine Bing .

Ballmer has not yet buried the PC , despite the crisis in that product, which Microsoft is associated, but is challenged by the tablet. "We must work to ensure that the PC is the device of preference for people when they are trying to be productive," he has said.

Microsoft also said at the conference how his recent internal reorganization would affect the presentation of its financial results. He did not, however, elaborate on the ongoing search for a successor to Mr. Ballmer.

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Facebook in Germany successfully

The social network Facebook is one according to their own data in Germany 19 million hits daily and corresponds to approximately 25 percent of the population. The majority use Facebook with a mobile app specifically log in 13 million every day with their smartphone or tablet into a platform. The monthly user figures amount to 25 million while Facebook users in Germany € 53.7 million counts. The advertising on smartphones and tablets developed for Facebook to a lucrative source of income.

The apps controlled in the second quarter with a 41 per cent share of the advertising revenue. The NSA spy scandal caused in recent weeks of negative press over Facebook. The Company founder Marc Zuckerberg now condemned the behavior of the U.S. government in relation to the Internet of the U.S. secret NSA spying. Due to the booming advertising revenue, its 1.15 billion users and increasing sales in the market value of Facebook recently climbed to 110 billion U.S. dollars.

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