x*****u 发帖数: 3419 | 1 The rumors have been flying and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they
’re legit: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching a tablet and two updated
Kindles this fall, the paper reports.
Sources not identified by the paper said Amazon will release an Android
tablet with a 9-inch screen by October, along with two new Kindles sometime
in the third quarter of 2011: one with a touchscreen, the other one a new
and cheaper version of the current Kindle. Both have e-ink screens. The
tablet will allow users to watch video, listen to music and read e-books,
said the WSJ‘s sources, who have seen the devices.
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Speculation about an Amazon tablet has been a near-constant Internet topic
of conversation in recent months, with Taiwanese tech publication Digitimes
reporting just a couple of days ago that Amazon would ship over 1 million
tablets in the third quarter (compared to Apple’s 14 to 15 million iPad
shipments). But as far as we know, this is the first time that a new Kindle
—much less two—have been reported. This also appears to be the first time
that anybody has reported seeing the devices.
Barnes & Noble and Kobo both released new e-readers in May. Amazon’s most
recent Kindle, the Kindle 3, was released last summer.
We’ve reached out to Amazon and will update this post if we hear back. In a
shareholders meeting conference call last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos
dodged questions about “shortcomings” in Kindle offerings (i.e., where’s
the tablet?). In May, he told Consumer Reports to “stay tuned” about a
tablet.
As for official Amazon announcements, the company announced today that AT&T
(NYSE: T) is now sponsoring the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, and dropped
its price 15 percent, to $139.
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