Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, 2011 @02:31AM from the all-the-cool-bookstores-have-their-own dept.

According to the New York Post — among many others — Amazon is expected to launch its long-anticipated color tablet in late September or October, and the device is slated to sell for 'hundreds less' than the iPad, which implies a price of $300 or less. MSNBC says much the same, but adds some (their words) "generic looking mockups" to illustrate. I expect millions of Kindle owners will happily skip the added weight and shorter battery life of a full-fledged tablet, but it's good to have options.

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Re:Tablet Battery Life? by subreality · 2011-08-27 02:59 · Score: 4, Informative

The Kindle goes for weeks without being careful about battery life. One of the cool things about e-ink is that the image persists passively, so when you turn the page, it just powers up for a moment to flip then goes back to sleep.