Amazon Android tablet with no hint of Google?



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Interesting article.  I was just talking with a colleague about his disappointment with a Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. His issues were all based around the in-availability of good, easy to access content and trustworthy apps. He liked the device itself and the interface.  Maybe Amazon has a good idea here.

Amazon's Android tablet to be media-focused, cheap and wiped free of any hints of Google?

by Rich KarpinskiSeptember 6th, 2011

Over the weekend, TechCrunch reported it got its hands on Amazon's 7-inch (likely Kindle-branded) tablet, which among other highlights is (sort of) Android-based and about half the price of today's cheapest iPad. With HP's fire-sale TouchPad's moving like wildfire at $99 (CP: iPad Who? $99 HP TouchPad selling like gangbusters), customers seem primed for cheap tablets. And by the way, the initial version of the Amazon tablet will have wi-fi but won't have 3G/4G data service – apparently not even the "whispernet" mobile data service that lets Kindle users download books on the go.

Amazon's move into tablets is important for a number of reasons. It has the scale and distribution to slash tablet prices, which it seems intent on doing. And it has digital apps, book, movie and music stores that are a great fit for a tablet (and compete directly with Apple's iTunes) – not to mention its core e-commerce shopping site which could get a nice boost too (and it is apparently planning to give tablet buyers a free upgrade to its Amazon Prime free shipping service).

Full article: http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2011/09/06/amazon%E2%80%99s-android-tablet-to-be-media-focused-cheap-and-wiped-free-of-any-hints-of-google/