Nearly two fifths (37%) of respondents to a PC Advisor poll think the Amazon Fire is 'great' and want to buy the tablet themselves. However, exactly a quarter (25%) of the people who took part didn't know what the Amazon Fire was.
On the same day as Amazon announced the launch of its first tablet device, we ran a poll to see what our readers thought about the price and functionality of the new tablet.
After seven days of voting, the result of the poll is that 37% of people think the Amazon Fire is "great" and that "it's the perfect balance of price and functionality" and that they "want one".
24% of voters said they thought the Amazon Fire is "interesting" but they'd rather have a "full-blown Android Tablet or an iPad"
A further 15% are "not bothered" about Amazon's debut tablet device and think it's just and "overgrown eReader". The remaining 25% had no shame in admitting that they had never heard of the Amazon Fire.
Even though 37% of people revealed that they wanted to own the Amazon Fire, there still appears to be a lot of speculation about the potential price UK customers will have to pay for the device. Forum user alan14 predicts the price of the Fire in the UK will be set at £240, based on the price difference between the $79 US customers have to pay and the £89 the UK market has to pay for the same Amazon Kindle eReader. OTT_B also agrees on this price, although he hopes the UK market will have an Amazon Fire tablet with a 10" screen.
Amazon has yet to announce a price or a release date for the Amazon Fire tablet in the UK, but have explained the reason behind the $79 Kindle costing £89 ($140), is due to the fact that the UK Kindle will come without inbuilt advertising, whereas US Kindle users will experience onscreen adverts.
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Guest said: Kindle Fire doesnt have microSD slot that Nook Color has thus it is stuck with 6 GB usable internal storage unlike Nook Color that can get up to 32 GB card in Kindles are made to be almost like a dumb terminal of the past to make sure youre tied up to Amazons storage on the web for which you need Wi-Fi connection to get to and you can only store content you get from Amazon there not other files and they can spy on your web activities through the new cloud-integrated web browser Also VERY IMPORTANT lack of microSD slot means that if you decide to root your Kindle Fire youll have to root the actual device thus there will be no coming back On Nook you can make it boot from a rooted microSD card and if you want to get back to the original Nook you can just take out the card and reboot Nook Color still has the best on the market anti-glare coated screen that is better for eadingviewing outsideBampN is rumored to be coming out with Nook Color 2 shortly that will sure to have Netflix app among others you wont find it on Kindle Nook Touch is still better designed than even the new Kindle Touch with battery lasting two months with ONE hour reading a day with Wi-Fi off thus its still twice as long as new Kindles two months with HALF and hour a day with Wi-Fi off It looks like Kindle didnt get any battery improvement in the new model they only changed the test condition More Kindle Touch still flashes black on each page turn while Nook Touch reduces the flashing by 80