SEATTLE & WASHINGTON --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Washington Post today announced an all - new tablet app built for a national audience, available starting today exclusively for Amazon
Fire tablet customers and offering unlimited free access to the app for six months — no subscription required.
We are thrilled to be working with Amazon to offer this first to (Kindle)
Fire tablet customers.»
Until then, current
Fire tablet customers will continue to have access to both their previously installed apps, as well as the Underground appstore itself.
Millions of
Fire Tablet customers have asked Alexa to play music and videos, read audiobooks, set timers, get the news and weather, and more
Fire Tablet customers that are Prime members have access to millions of movies, TV episodes, songs, books, and much more included as part of their member benefits.
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Also for the second year in a row, Amazon's
tablet was the most popular item for
customers — Kindle
Fire HD continued its run as the # 1 best - selling, most gifted, and most wished for product across the millions of items available on Amazon worldwide since its introduction 15 weeks ago.
From the
customer perspective, the new
tablet will need to be within reach of anyone considering a Kindle
Fire HD 7 or a Nexus 7, and $ 150 - to - $ 200 above what others are charging is really pushing it.
The all - new
Fire HD 8 — the next - generation of Amazon's highest
customer - rated
tablet — offers a stunning 8» HD display with over 1 million pixels, a quad - core processor, up to 12 hours of battery life, 16 GB of storage with support for up to 256 GB more, plus Alexa — now only $ 79.99.
The entire 2013 holiday season was the best ever for Amazon, with more than 36.8 million items ordered worldwide on Cyber Monday, which is a record - breaking 426 items per second, and millions of
customers unwrapped Kindle e-readers and Kindle
Fire tablets this holiday season.
«The
customer response was incredibly positive last year, and we're excited to help
customers find great discounts again this year — whether they just received a new Amazon
Fire TV,
Fire Tablet, or
Fire Kids Edition
Tablet over the holidays or are looking to add new content to their current device.»
SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sep. 25, 2013 — Amazon.com today introduced
Fire OS 3.0 «Mojito,» the next generation of software and services that powers the best - selling Kindle
Fire tablets, with hundreds of updates and exclusive new features to give
customers a simple OS experience with Android app compatibility.
The Seattle based company is trying to leverage their movie, television and apps services to appeal to
customers that might not have a
Fire Tablet or Amazon phone.
One of the big drawbacks of using the
Fire Tablet in China is
customers will not be able to access Amazon Instant Video or Prime Music.
«We've already sold millions of
Fire tablets since launch, and we're excited to now make it available to
customers in China,» said Neil Lindsay, Vice President, Amazon Devices.
Amazon UK has announced a discount of # 25 on its Kindle
Fire HD range of
tablets in celebration of being ranked first in
customer satisfaction in the country for seven years in a row.
Even though it's the most popular method of receiving
customer service on Amazon's HDX
tablets, the company doesn't offer its popular Mayday service on the
Fire HD 6.
The large - screen Kindle
Fire HD is also available with 4G wireless, and comes with Amazon's groundbreaking $ 49.99 one year 4G LTE data package -
customers save hundreds of dollars in the first year compared to other 4G
tablets.
With Kindle
Fire HD 8.9» and soon our full line of new
tablets, we are continuing our efforts to provide a range of accessibility features — Voice Guide, Explore by Touch, text - to - speech, optional text coloring and adjustable font sizes — for our vision - impaired
customers,» said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
His day will likely resemble a gauntlet, with dozens of tech journalists marching into Amazon headquarters three at a time to hear him repeat details of the three new
Fire tablets and cutting - edge
customer service program that are his company's latest creations.
The Kindle
customer discussions forum at Amazon is littered with numerous complaints about videos no longer working on some
Fire HD and Kindle
Fire HDX
tablets.
Today at an event in New York, the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, introduced three brand new Kindles, and the much anticipated Kindle
Fire, a 7 ″ color
tablet designed to connect
customers with Amazon's content.
When combined with our content ecosystem, great email and browsing and top - rated
customer service, we hope people around the world will agree that Kindle
Fire HD is the best
tablet for an incredible price.»
With the advent of the Nook
Tablet and Kindle
Fire, these two companies are really trying hard to outdo each other for your money, which benefits
customers in the end with more deals to be had.
Instead, when the
customer flings the video to the TV,
Fire syncs the video and the X-Ray data in the cloud and streams the video directly to the TV, so the quality of the video is not dependent the
tablet's processor or networking.
«The response to our new family of Kindle
Fire tablets has been fantastic, and we're excited to add new features we think our
customers will love,» said Peter Larsen, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.
This will allow
customers to buy them for both the Kindle
Fire line of
tablets and the e-ink versions.
We recently brought Alexa to
Fire tablets, making it easy for
customers to enjoy endless entertainment at the touch of a button.
(UPDATE: In the most recent survey, Amazon's
Fire tablets ranked the highest in
customer satisfaction.)
Customers can download and read Singles Classics on their Kindle E-readers,
Fire Tablets, and the free Kindle app for iOS, Android, PC and Mac.
Amazon might discover the costly answer to that question depending on how much the owners of its new Kindle
Fire HDX
tablets use its Mayday on - demand video
customer support feature.
A J.D. Power survey a few weeks ago showed that Kindle
Fire tablet owners ranked highest in
tablet customer satisfaction, ahead of owners of
tablets from Apple, Samsung, Asus, and Acer.
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The Amazon.com landing page is touting another great
customer - satisfaction ranking from ForeSee by offering a $ 30 discount on any Kindle
Fire tablet.
The study then ranked
tablet customer satisfaction according to brand, and in that study Amazon's Kindle
Fire tablets got the highest ranking
customer satisfaction.
The entire
tablet market is literary corner - stoned by Apple, but as the HP TouchPad and the Amazon
Fire continue to prove,
customers are attracted to low cost devices.
With the growth of Android powered devices and the popularity of
tablets such as the Kindle
Fire and the Nook
tablet, whose app marketplaces give Amazon and Barnes and Noble
customers a centralized location for finding apps, ebrary's response to the Android market is well - timed and the distributor joins an ever - growing list of companies who are working in both the iOS and Android platforms.
Judging from the Kindle discussions on Amazon, some
customers think that the new higher end
tablets are yet to be announced and these four
Fires are for people with less demanding needs, e.g. kids and people who don't want all the more expensive features nor want to pay higher prices.
Amazon promises that the new
Fire HD 10
tablet is going to provide
customers with up to 10 hours of mixed use battery life.
Starting today,
customers can use Alexa calling and messaging on
Fire, Android, and iOS
tablets.
Fire tablets don't really have a large amount of internal memory to begin with and it makes sense that Amazon would want to encourage
customers to store them on their SD card.
Simply call
customer service and Amazon experts can connect to your
Fire tablet to co-pilot through features by drawing on your screen, walking you through how to do something yourself, or doing it for you — whatever works best.
[151] In December 2011, Amazon announced that
customers had purchased «well over» one million Kindles per week since the end of November 2011; this includes all available Kindle models and also the Kindle
Fire tablet.
Of course, there will always be a market for a pure e-ink device that is easy on the eyes, but the average
customer has now gravitated towards the Nook
Tablet and Kindle
Fire.
When combined with our unmatched content ecosystem, unmatched cross-platform interoperability, and standard - setting
customer service, we hope people will agree that Kindle
Fire HD is the best 7»
tablet available anywhere, at any price.»
Amazon is celebrating its 9th consecutive ForeSee
customer satisfaction award by taking $ 30 off all Kindle
Fire tablet purchases from now until January 11th.
Limp pointed out other Amazon devices, like its
Fire tablet line and
Fire TV streaming box, that he described as being «very successful» with
customers, but he declined to discuss sales numbers.
In an email sent to
customers yesterday evening, Amazon wrote: «We have determined that, in rare cases, when the power adapter included with the UK
Fire 7 ″ and UK
Fire Kids Edition 7 ″
tablet is pulled from the socket, the adapter assembly may detach and create a risk of electrical shock.»
When Amazon launched their new Amazon
Fire tablet models for 2015 — 2016 yesterday, they removed their other
Fire and Kindle
Fire tablets from the sight of
customers, and for a short while the
tablets were not even available for purchase, much to the alarm of a few people who were contemplating buying just these
tablets.
Despite Bezos» insistence that he doesn't need his
customers on the «upgrade treadmill», Amazon released an upgrade to pretty much every single one of their devices, including two new Kindle
Fire tablets and the predicted backlit eInk reader.