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Ryan Block at gdgt has word via his sources that the Amazon Kindle Fire — the device that can truly go toe - to - toe with the iPad — isn't the tablet they're putting their faith in.
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Tech site GDGT followed up with details about the tablet's build, writing that the Fire looks a whole lot like the BlackBerry Playbook, and that this similarity is not a coincidence: In order to get their new tablet out in time for the holidays, Amazon outsourced design and production of the new tablet to the same company that made the Playbook (which, by the way, isn't doing so hot in terms of sales).
From the pictures, which GDGT has helpfully posted here, he looks gaunt but happy to be back in the spotlight.
One month ago, Engadget and gdgt Co-founder Peter Rojas said he's almost certain Amazon is having Samsung build a tablet that could run a custom version of Android rather than the Android 3.0 «Honeycomb» tablet OS.
Back in September, gdgt stated that the Amazon Kindle Fire would be more of a «stopgap» and, as a result, a «pretty poor» device.
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The Quanta connection helped Amazon take a big shortcut in the Kindle Fire's design, so gdgt «s sources claim, which had already helped RIM design much of the PlayBook.
Bacterial GDGTs in Holocene sediments and catchment soils of a high Alpine lake: application of the MBT / CBT - paleothermometer, Niemann et al, 2012, read more here.
According to Peter Rojas, the former editor of Engadget who is now over at GDGT, it's already an «open secret that Amazon is working on an Android tablet,» and he is «99 %» sure that Samsung is responsible for the hardware.
A second, better Amazon Kindle tablet could land as early as the first quarter of next year.That's according to to gadget site gdgt - the chaps behind reports that the Amazon Kindle Fire, the tablet that is expected to be unveiled in a matter of hours,... Read more
That's because, as gdgt's Ryan Block confirms, Amazon called in the Playbook's designers, Quanta, to push the design out the door quickly.
TechCrunch has reported in the past that the device will look a lot like a BlackBerry PlayBook, and gdgt's Ryan Block dug up a good reason for that — apparently both devices were produced by Taiwanese ODM Quanta.
GDGT has reported that the PlayBook look could be due to the fact that Quanta is the OEM producing both devices, though Amazon has its own design lab, Lab 126.
That's according to to gadget site gdgt - the chaps behind reports that the Amazon Kindle Fire, the tablet that is expected to be unveiled in a matter of hours, would be more of a «stopgap» and, as a result, a «pretty poor» device.
According to Ryan Block at GDGT, the Kindle tablet is a PlayBook made by Quanta.
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