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by Michael Fisher | August 20, 2012 9:56 AMRead OnSo, Pocketnow is a technology website, right? "Always start your posts with a rhetorical question," says the Internet Manual of Poor Style. We're off to a good start. There are some downsides to running sites like ours, those that cater to a specific niche. One of those is that usually, readers don't get much opportunity to get to know we writers personally, because everyone's too busy trying to figure out how many GeeBees and WeeFees are under the hood of the latest, fantastically-named mobile device. There's not a lot of time for much socialization. So unless you follow me on ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 24, 2012 2:19 AMRead OnThere is no doubt that Amazon will introduce a Kindle Fire successor and, thanks to all the rumors around, we can hope for a ten-incher (to compete with the iPad) as well as a seven-incher (to take on the Nexus 7). However, Demos Parneros, president of U.S. Retail for Staples Inc., believes that there will be five or six tablet SKUs assigned to Amazon slates. Of course SKUs (stock-keeping units) could very well refer to only two major hardware variants (probably the seven inch and the ten inch tablets) but with different storage options (8-, 16-, 32-, who knows maybe even 64GB flavors). ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | July 10, 2012 5:04 AMRead OnThe Kindle Fire refresh, dubbed generically Kindle Fire 2, has been in the news in the form of rumors for quite some time now. Some reports are talking about not one, but two Amazon-made tablets to hit the market soon: a smaller seven-inch-ish slate and a bigger, ten-incher. The good folks at T3N have created some renders based on rumored specs and information. The seven inch tablet will most probably target the fresh Asus Google Nexus 7 as its competitor while the ten-inche will get the Apple iPad in its targeting range. The seven inch slate will reportedly bounce the resolution up to ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | June 27, 2012 2:34 AMRead OnThe Kindle Fire follow-up is highly anticipated and this has probably everything to do with the cornucopia of rumors around this tablet. Last we heard of the Kindle Fire 2, a report was convinced that Amazon will skip the 8.9-inch form-factor and go for a 10.1-inch built instead. We also heard reports of the tablet being launched in the third quarter. Falling nicely into place is another report, this time coming from Cnet's "source", according to which July 31 is the date to circle in your calendar if you are interested in the Amazon Kindle Fire 2 launch date. Other specs reported include ...
