Amazon Kindle color tablet, the new iPad rival will be unveiled tomorrow.

Amazon Kindle color tablet, the new iPad rival, will be unveiled tomorrow during a press conference.

Amazon is holding a press conference on Wednesday where it’s widely expected that the giant online retailer will unveil a new color Kindle that puts it on collision course with Apple – a device that could be half the price of iPad 2.

Other tech giants from Motorola to Nokia have tried the same thing, of course – and crashed and burned.

But Amazon is already the world’s largest online retailer – and comes armed with a one-click ordering system that can deliver entertainment from books to films to music with a single button-press.

Other iPad rivals may simply not have been entertaining enough.

Amazon Kindle tablet is rumored to cost a mere $250 - including “free” access to Amazon's Prime film-streaming service

 

Amazon’s Kindle tablet is rumored to cost a mere $250 – including “free” access to Amazon’s Prime film-streaming service, vastly undercutting Apple’s price.

Amazon Kindle tablet is also more pocketable, at a rumored seven inches.

Analysts suggest that Amazon’s willingness to sell hardware at a loss in order to sell more e-books, films and music will put it in a position to offer the first serious challenge to Apple – whose “core” business is still selling phones, tablets, and iPods.

According to Forrester Research, the US tech industry analysts, Amazon Kindle tablet could be the “only credible iPad competitor” and could even “completely disrupt the status quo”.

Even on iPad, consumers often prefer buying books via Amazon’s Kindle app to Apple’s own less-well-stocked iBooks store.

“Apple sells software and services, but the lion’s share of Apple’s revenue still comes from hardware,” wrote Forrester.

“This makes it vulnerable to a company, such as Amazon, that isn’t seeking profit from hardware sales.”

The tech blog Techcrunch suggested that Amazon Kindle tablet might be called Kindle Fire.

Simon Osborne-Walker, Associate Editor of Britain’s Stuff magazine, said of Amazon Kindle tablet:

“Where other manufacturers have taken on Apple in a tech-spec arms race, Amazon’s all about the content.

“It doesn’t care if it makes a loss on every device it sells; they’re just shop windows and cash registers connecting to the world’s biggest superstore.”

Amazon Kindle is already the company's best-selling product and the colour version is described as the 'first credible rival to iPad 2

Industry insiders have, however, cast doubt on Amazon’s ability to produce an operating system that looks and “feels’ as good as Apple’s, however.

Amazon’s “strength” has always been the technologies that underlie its products – such as the one-click buying system it pioneered, or the “recommendation” system that is now imitated on many other e-commerce sites on the web.

Whether Amazon can produce an experience as slick as Apple’s best-selling iOS remains to be seen.

Analysts still expect Apple to dominate the tablet market for “several years” – at present, Apple controls at least 75% of tablet sales worldwide, despite High Street chains such as Comet selling Android tablets for as little as $300.

Amazon Kindle tablet vs. iPad:

Kindle an Android tablet – but TechCrunch claim to have seen a prototype that adopts Amazon’s orange, black and blue color scheme.

Kindle will have a seven-inch display and will be much more pocketable than iPad.

A bigger, 10-inch version is due, but not before Christmas.

The smaller model of Kindle tablet will cost “around half the price” of the entry-level of iPad 2.

Kindle’s price will include access to Amazon Prime – including a new film-streaming service, and faster deliveries on “real world” Amazon products.

Nancy Clayson

Nancy is a young, full of life lady who joined the team shortly after the BelleNews site started to run. She is focused on bringing up to light all the latest news from the technology industry. In her opinion the hi-tech expresses the humanity intellectual level. Nancy is an active person; she enjoys sports and delights herself in doing gardening in her spare time, as well as reading, always searching for new topics for her articles.

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