Showing posts with label Amazon Kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon Kindle. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Is Amazon Planning to spin off Kindle Fire Into A New Sister Company named Seesaw

With its Kindle Fire becoming a hit in the tablet market,it seems that Amazon if planning to Spin-off its Kindle business into a new separate sister company apparently named Seesaw.As per the Trademark filed for the new Amazon Kindle Fire 4 at the United States Patent & Trademark office,the owner apepars to be Seesaw LLC Limited Liability Company rather than Amazon.All the 5 trademarks were filed by Seesaw company & they were filed by the same attorney for Amazon :Purvi J. Patel of Haynes and Booone, LLP.
                                                           Although nothing can be confirmed as of now,it clearly seems that Amazon plans to invest into Kindle Fire business and other mobile products as it might be planning to club them under SeeSaw Inc.There are currently 5 Trademark apllications filed by SeeSaw in September which includes the following:
With Analysts  denying rumors of a possible company split,It will be interesting to see what Amazon's real motives are.

Thursday, 6 October 2011

Amazon Kindle Fire To Implement In-app Purchase:Currently Beta

One advantage the Android users have is the ability to make In-app purchases via Paypal,Glu Mobile or Android Market.Now Amazon is planning to implement the same feature in their Kindle Fire pretty soon.With the Beta program being in the development phase,Amazon is planning to package this App along with the Tablet when it hits the shelves next month.
                                                          Equipped with a modified version of Google's Android GingerBread,most of the propriety features of Google has been removed including the likes of Android Market.Now Amazon is planning to make the In-Apps access the Amazon store.This comes as bad news for Fire developers as they will not have access to Google's exclusive services when it comes to Kindle.The only alternate for Amazon will be to link up with its own database/repository to allow games /market places to sell apps or upgrades.
                                                   The pre-registration forms are available with Amazon & this feature will be for a one time payment.Its clear that Amazon will be focusing on Subscription apps.With the product going live on November 15th & already more than 250,000 tablets pre-ordered,Amazon is doing better than what we all had anticipated.

Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet Sale: Over 250,000 Sold in the Last 5 Days

Unconfirmed reports are suggesting that the total sales of Amazon Kindle Fire tablet would have crossed the 250,000 mark since its launch 5 days ago.Although the first day sale recorded estimate sales of around 100,000 tablets and the sale decreasing in the following days,it comes as an impressive news for Amazon and the tablet industry @ a period where its rivals have not managed to put an impressive show.
                                                                Although Kindle Fire may not be an Ipad killer and it cant even come close to Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 or 7+ series which have the capabilities of taking on Apples Ipad,Analysts are impressed with the sales put up by the tablet.When compared to Apple's which sold a whooping 2.5 Million Ipad in a matter of one month with  an average of 80,000 every day compared to Amazons 50,000,its still impressive considering the fact that Motorola's Xoom have sold only 100,000 in the entire month & BlackBerry's playbook,the predecessor of Kindle was also a disaster selling only 5000,000 units in the first quarter.
                                                            With Amazon offering Kindle fire @ $ 199 which according to Standards is $ 10 lesser than what must have been the actual price.With  its e-reader Touch failing to make impression as it managed to sell only 32,000 pieces in the last 5 days,Only time will tell how many Kindle will be sold by Amazon.With Galaxy tab making its release on October 26th,things are looking bleak for Kindle.