Kindle vs iPad 2

Amazon's first and long-awaited tablet PC Kindle Fire finally comes out on September 28th. The battle between tablet PCs is officially started since then. The market for tablet PC before can be described as the iPad world. Having been publishing more than a year, iPad let majority of consumers believe that it has become a mainstream product in tablet PC.

There were some little competitive products before the Kindle Fire, Galaxy Tab maybe the most competitive one. But there was not any real competitor to Apple's products until the launch of Kindle Fire. As a tablet PC, Kindle Fire has become a strong challenger to iPad series products. This article on "Kindle vs iPad 2" is going to show you five reasons why Kindle Fire is the only product to be expected to challenge iPad. Read on to learn the Kindle Fire strength right now.

Kindle vs iPad 2: Low Price

The first strength of Kindle Fire is the low price. Low-cost is always the most effective strategy among any industry. The $ 199 Kindle Fire can come out at such a low price just for the reason that is as remove some hardware configurations which are able to be removed. That is to say, it removes some features which you spend less time on. So there is no camera, microphone, no built-in GPS, 3G module, or even Bluetooth in Kindle Fire. Another fact is that Kindle Fire comes with good core configuration which is equipped with a 1GHz dual-core processor, 7-inch IPS screen, and up to 8 hours battery life.

Kindle vs iPad 2: Industry Eco-system

The second strength of Kindle Fire is its unique industry eco-system. As we all know, Amazon also has e-commerce shopping center, book store, MP3 online store, VoD video service store, the App Store, and cloud services which could be equal to the Apple service ecosystem. So Amazon can take the low price strategy to attract consumers to buy Kindle Fire, and then through its related services and even advertising to subsidize the loss on hardware sales compared to iPad 2.

Kindle vs iPad 2: Small Size

The third feature of Kindle Fire is its smaller size than iPad 2. The small enables users for single hand operation. Although some people may think that it would be better with bigger screen, the tablet PCs still have to fight for portability after all. And 7 inches is the maximum size of the hand for ordinary people. So compared with iPad which comes about 0.6kg, the 0.4 kg Kindle Fire would be more suitable for long time carry and use.

Kindle vs iPad 2: Faster Web loading and Flash Compatible

The faster page loads and be compatible with Flash became the fourth strength of Kindle Fire. The built-in Silk Web browser would let the Kindle Fire and Amazon's EC2 work together to draw webpage. Besides, what has to be mentioned is that Kindle Fire support Flash, which conforms to the needs of the public. However, this is just what stubborn iPad disdains for doing.

Kindle vs iPad 2: Wireless Image Capabilities

The last strength of Kindle Fire is that it has the wireless image capabilities. Vide the video of the conference, we can find that Kindle tablet already has the function of wireless mirror, which means that users can directly throw in the media content on Kindle Fire to TV or large screen without connection. Not only that, once you joined the Amazon club, you can directly watch streaming media and put any streaming media on the network to the big screen without any App.

The five points above are reflected that why Kindle Fire is highly expected to be the tablet PC for future to challenge iPad.

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