Kindle Pre-Orders Now Live For Fire, Fire HD and Paperwhite
The all-new Amazon Kindles are all now available for pre-ordering from Amazon’s website. The Kindle Paperwhite retails for $119, or $179 for a version with built-in, free 3G connectivity, and those versions ship on Oct. 1. The Kindle Fire HD models come in both 7- and 8.9-inch flavors, and retail for $199 and $299 respectively for 16GB versions of those, or $249 and $369 for 32GB versions while a $499 LTE version with 32GB of storage is also avai...
The new Kindle HD is nice but to me it seems to fall flat when compared to the Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 features a faster 1.3 quad-core, a more powerful GPU, GPS, and NFC. The Kindle does have double the storage but now that everything is in the cloud I can't remember the last time I actually stored something on a mobile device. That basically leaves the HDMI out and the "faster" WiFi as the only selling points.