Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets

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Staples Executive Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets

Posted by samzenpus on Monday July 23, 2012 @02:20AM from the around-the-corner dept.

zacharye writes "Staples (SPLS) president Demos Parneros has gone on record in stating that Amazon (AMZN) has plans to introduce as many as six new Kindle Fire tablets. A new report on Monday says that Amazon has plans to add up to five or six new tablet SKUs to its lineup. According to the claim, Parneros confirmed that the Kindle Fire tablets will vary in size, and will include at least one 10-inch tablet model."

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Snubbed by BigBunion · 2012-07-23 02:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

Something tells me that Staples was angling to carry the new devices in their stores but then got snubbed by Amazon. Ouch.
1. Re:Snubbed by h4rr4r · 2012-07-23 02:44 · Score: 2
  
  The fact that I don't get those prime benefits on other tablets makes me want to cancel prime not buy a kindle.
  If the kindle shipped with stock android and actually got updated I might consider it.
2. Re:Snubbed by Enderandrew · 2012-07-23 02:53 · Score: 2
  
  Can't you get all the Amazon apps on a normal Android device?
  Where as the Kindle Fire doesn't have access to all Android apps and music/video from Google Play, Nook, etc. As far as I know, Nook is the only major e-book app that allows side-loading my own e-book collection, which I enjoy.
  
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3. Re:Snubbed by P-niiice · 2012-07-23 02:55 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Your limited on what you can do with the tablet. This is fine if you're really, really into Amazon and don't get movies from varied sources, for example. As an Android tablet, it's severely crippled.
4. Re:Snubbed by Dishevel · 2012-07-23 03:15 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  if i'm going to buy something new ereader is going to be my #1 feature and that goes to kindle.
  If that is the #1 feature. Should you not be looking at the regular Kindle or the Nook? You know something with a incredibly readable E-Ink screen.
  Or are you willing to throw your "Number One Feature" feature out the door for "Color".
  If that is the case then I believe that "Color" is your number one feature.
  You can thank me later.
  
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5. Re:Snubbed by cpu6502 · 2012-07-23 03:19 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Notice he said "SKUs". The SKU number is always added to computers a few months before the actual item arrives at the store, so they have time to (1) set a price and (2) order it for their inventory.
  Just to pick a random example: My store used to start ordering summer bikinis in October/November, and they arrived in December. Which is why there's always a post-christmas clearance; to make room in the stockroom for all these bikinis and other summer goods.
  
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6. Re:Snubbed by reub2000 · 2012-07-23 03:28 · Score: 2
  
  Okay that explains why I'm out of luck if I lose that hat that's kept me warm all winter in February.
7. Re:Snubbed by cayenne8 · 2012-07-23 05:18 · Score: 2
  
  If that is the #1 feature. Should you not be looking at the regular Kindle or the Nook? You know something with a incredibly readable E-Ink screen.
  You answered pretty much what I was going to say.
  I love my nook color tablet that I installed Android on...as a tablet for surfing, email...watching videos on plane trips.
  But for long, sustained reading for pleasure...I have the Kindle DX. The e-ink is THE way to go IMHO, for pleasure reading.
  My eyesight is getting pretty bad last years...and honestly, I'd pretty much stopped reading many books. But now that I've gotten this eink reader, and can adjust the fonts enough to make it easy to read...I've gotten back into pleasure reading in a major way.
  With the backlit tablets....just is hard on the eyes for long term reading. With e-ink, I've actually in one sitting read books cover to cover much like I did as a kid....I couldn't spend that much time staring at a backlit tablet without serious eye fatigue.
  
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6 new Kindle tablets by GameboyRMH · 2012-07-23 02:33 · Score: 3, Insightful

1 geek news site
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1. Re:6 new Kindle tablets by Dog-Cow · 2012-07-23 03:43 · Score: 2
  
  I think that's redundant. If it's a geek site, of course there's no fucking going on.
Outs six tablets by rminsk · 2012-07-23 02:41 · Score: 2

"Outs Six New Kindle Fire Tablets". Where they gay? How about "Staples executives leak six new..."
Someone does not know what a SKU is by h4rr4r · 2012-07-23 02:43 · Score: 5, Informative

6 SKUs could easily be only one or two products.
The Nook 7 has two SKUs, we don't call them difference devices.
1. Re:Someone does not know what a SKU is by Sir_Sri · 2012-07-23 04:50 · Score: 2
  
  Right. A couple of sizes, a couple of capacities, a couple of colours or a 'deluxe' edition with per-bundled goodies or a cross promotion with a pre -installed set of software and you can easily hit half a dozen SKU's.
  If I were to guess, it's two sizes, then with/without 3g and then a version with extra memory and 3g or something similar.
Snuff the Fire, what about eInk? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-23 02:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

All these posts about the July release have been Kindle Fire this and Kindle Fire that, but is everyone forgetting about the REAL Kindle? You know, the one that actually has a good eInk screen? There's bound to be at least one model with a frontlit screen (like the Nook), but what I really want is a non-touchscreen one. I doubt it will happen because they think people only want the button version because it's the cheapest, but the perfect model to me would be one in the same form factor as the current K4 with buttons, WITH 3G (so annoying to not have it after being used to the Kindle 2 and Kindle 3), and with the frontlight
Non-vendor-locked tablets are better deals by walterbyrd · 2012-07-23 03:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

When the Kindle Fire first came out, it was a decent tablet, for the price - even if it was crippled, and you were vendor-locked by Amazon.
Today, with great tablets, like the Nexus 7, so inexpense, why bother with proprietary, crippled, vendor-locked devices?
Re:Outside US by Dishevel · 2012-07-23 03:17 · Score: 2

Or maybe it has been discussed many times and I think at one time was even in the FAQ. /. is US centric. So get used to it or go somewhere that is not US centric.

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Re:Outside US by RenderSeven · 2012-07-23 03:26 · Score: 2

Maybe there should be a us.slashdot.org to discuss local news?
Maybe there should be a oversensitivecanadians.slashdot.org instead?
SKUs not the same as products by SpleenVenter · 2012-07-23 04:18 · Score: 4, Informative

A separate SKU (stock-keeping unit, a fancy term for "part number") will exist for each sellable configuration of a product. Saying that there will be "five or six" SKUs could easily mean only two separate models, say a 7" and 10" with three memory configurations each.
Re:Hopefully, these will displace iPads by SuperKendall · 2012-07-23 04:27 · Score: 2

Considering Google is using Motorola as a bludgeon to sue Apple, you come off as quite the hypocrite recommending that others buy from companies that engage in practices you claim to hate.
The sooner you realize that ALL companies play these patent games and we should just ignore them, the better off you will be... otherwise you are eliminating possibly useful devices from your life.

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