Amazon Fires $199, 7-Inch Tablet At Apple

Amazon's not-so-secret project is finally unveiled and is the company's first real tablet�contender. The Kindle Fire is Amazon's prize fighter in the battle for tablet�dominance. But the new LCD-equipped Kindle isn't in the corner alone. Amazon also took the wraps off of two new, more-traditional Kindles, including a $99 touchscreen model and a stripped-down $79 option. The Fire itself is rather characterless and dull. It looks a lot like the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook (probably for good reason) and features just enough tech to pass as acceptable. There's a tw0-point multitouch screen (the iPad has a 10-point screen), and an unspecified CPU although reports place a TI OMAP CPU at the core. There are no physical buttons on the black slate along with little Amazon branding. The Fire doesn't have a camera, mic or 3G connectivity although it does pack WiFi. It's all about the experience

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