Amazon ignites tablet war with Fire, takes on Apple

The agilely advancing gadget, while defective abounding of the high-tech accretion and whistles accepted on tablets from cameras to 3G wireless connection, may complete the afterlife bell for cheap tablet pc a bulk of accessories based on Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Android. The software admiral tablets fabricated by Samsung (005930.KS), Motorola (MMI.N), Asustek (2357.TW), HTC (2498.TW) and LG Electronics (066570.KS).

Dotcom-entrepreneur and billionaire-CEO Jeff Bezos apparent to a arranged admirers the apparatus he hopes will wed Amazon's books, movies, music and added agreeable with billow or Internet-based accumulator and Web browsing.

"People accept been cat-and-mouse for a book for 200 bucks for a continued time and this is the best one I've apparent so far," Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of apparatus analysis website Engadget, told Reuters.

The Kindle Fire book has a 7-inch screen, chargeless abstracts accumulator over the Internet and a new browser alleged Amazon Silk. china tablet pc Amazon expects shipments to alpha on November 15 -- hitting abundance shelves at Best Buy (BBY.N) and added chains aloof in time for the aiguille anniversary arcade season.

By appraisement the Fire at beneath than bisected the iPad -- yet stripping out costlier apparatus and appearance -- the Internet banker hopes to get the accessory into millions of consumers' hands, who in about-face will buy Amazon content.

One key differentiator that ability advice the Fire angle out during the cut-throat holidays is Amazon's "EC2" billow accretion service, which supports Internet browsing and helps acceleration loading of websites. That was not accessible on battling tablets, Stevens noted.