Tech FanaTic Blog » amazon http://tftb.net The Blog for Tech Freaks Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Amazon Kindle Fire – The Good And The Bad http://tftb.net/2011/10/01/amazon-kindle-fire-the-good-and-the-bad/ http://tftb.net/2011/10/01/amazon-kindle-fire-the-good-and-the-bad/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 04:44:04 +0000 TFTB.net http://tftb.net/?p=1286 Continue reading →]]> Amazon just announced the Amazon Kindle Fire, for which pre-order has already started and release date is set to 15 Nov 2011. Blogs are buzzing with articles calling Kindle Fire as the iPad Killer and some defending iPad’s honor.  Lets see what exactly it is, then you decide if it worth $199 for you.
Before we head over to see what this tablet is about, one thing for sure at $199 it’s priced apt and very cheap.


The Good

Kindle Fire is a custom Android Firmware probably 2.2 or 2.3 so running all Apps from Amazon App Store should happen without breaking a sweat.  Having a powerful 1Ghz dual core processor for 7 inch IPS display is always an upside, but thats not something worth discussing, almost all new tablets have the similar specification.
What Kindle Fire is actually about is Amazon.com, you get your device synced with your Amazon account and have the choice for more than  10,000 movies and popular TV shows, 800,000 books which cost $9.99 or less and 2 million free books – that’s the US customers get access to when they buy Kindle Fire. All this content from Amazon.com can be stored on Amazon Cloud Storage free.  Being priced so low, it has to be the best price for the ported hardware.

The Bad

No camera, no mic, and more of all No 3G. The downside of all this being, no video-calls  and No 3G means despite having a ginormous Cloud content you cannot access anything without the WiFi connection.
Now the dirty part, Android fragmentation. Being Amazon’s own custom firmware it won’t allow you to download anything from Android Marketplace and you would be stuck with Amazon App Store to download all the Apps they provide. This also means all the Android updates from Google won’t come immediately to Kindle Fire. Amazon would edit it, pack it and then ship it to users.
The sleek-looking device has one major design flaw, the broad bezel around it. I know this is a pure reading device so the having a thick bezel means better and longer grip, but come on that just makes it look chunky overall.

The device comes shipped with their own browser, Amazon Silk which should work fine.

Technical Details
Display 7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Size (in inches) 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).
Weight 14.6 ounces (413 grams).
System Requirements None, because it’s wireless and doesn’t require a computer.
On-device Storage 8GB internal. That’s enough for 80 apps, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
Cloud Storage Free cloud storage for all Amazon content
Battery Life Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and downloading content.
Charge Time Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also supports charging from your computer via USB.
Wi-Fi Connectivity Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, or 802.1X standard with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
USB Port USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)
Audio 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.
Content Formats Supported Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Documentation Quick Start Guide(included in box); Kindle User’s Guide (pre-installed on device)
Warranty and Service 1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the terms found here.
Included in the Box Kindle Fire device, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start Guide.
via Amazon Kindle Fire

Despite all the arguments, Amazon has truly brought in a revolutionary device what HTC, Samsung ,Motorola, Blackberry brought were the ‘copy-cat’ as quoted by Steve Jobs and Kindle Fire seems to be a tablet which actually isn’t iPad.
According to iSuppli, it costs $209.63 to manufacture a Kindle Fire for which Amazon just charges us $199. So we could say it’s reasonably priced. Launching 15th November 2011, and it has to be a perfect time to launch as people would be buying a Christmas gift sooner or later but should be expect a price drop as in Christmas sale?
You can pre-order to reserve your place in-line here.

 

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The only limitation to host a site on Amazon S3 is that you can only host static websites and not dynamic websites like WordPress or any blog.

You need to have a Amazon S3 account.

Step 1: Create a bucket in your Amazon S3 account and give it a name which is the same as your website.

Step 2: Select the new bucket and click the Upload button to upload all the web pages as you would do while uploading on your webhost.

Step 3: Right-click the bucket name and choose Properties. Switch to the Websites tab, enable the websites feature and set your index.html file as the index document. Save the changes.

Step 4 : Now the website is hosted, and we need to map that bucket to our domain.
Login to your domain registrar and create a CNAME Record > Set the value as the Endpoint provided by the Amazon S3 bucket and save the changes.

Check the detailed tutorial on labnol

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]]> http://tftb.net/2011/02/26/using-amazon-s3-to-host-files/feed/ 2 Amazon.com's Kindle Fiddles with the sales http://tftb.net/2008/03/21/amazoncoms-kindle-fiddles-with-the-sales/ http://tftb.net/2008/03/21/amazoncoms-kindle-fiddles-with-the-sales/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:12:51 +0000 TFTB.net http://tftb.net/2008/03/21/amazoncoms-kindle-fiddles-with-the-sales/ Continue reading →]]> Within few months Amazon’s own product Kindle is out of stock. Amazon.com is now facing problems with the high amount of demand and low manufacturing number. For those who don’t know Kindle, its just a E-book reader called as the best Wireless Reading Device ever made. Its is the one of all type of Electronic book reader with great user interface and eyes touchimg resolution .It is not only a e-book reader, newspapers and rss feeds of famous entities are updated daily with easy Wi-fi access and many more features once to connect through Wireless connectivity.

With the overwhelming response and Amazon.com being low on stock they have posted the welcome page with a Appeal to all the Amazon users to bare with the delay in shipping their products rather one can buy now and will later be sent with a confirmation mail with the shipping details which could be really really long. Petty users have also waited six weeks for their shipment to reach home. This is what they posted on their site

Amazon.com’s Kindle Letter

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