Two years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire. It was the first affordable color tablet offered by a major hardware manufacturer, and certainly the first respectable tablet that fit in a coat pocket.
But it was also a Version 1. The first Fire was thick and heavy, and poor responsiveness was a common complaint—even among long-time Android users, who were already used to a certain gap between Thought and Action where multitouch was concerned.
On Tuesday, Amazon announced the Kindle Fire HDX. "We've learned a lot in the past two years," I was told by an Amazon rep during an afternoon of demos. And that learning is reflected in the feature sets of two Fire HDX versions, shipping in the middle of October.
Not only are Amazon's tablets faster and prettier than ever before, they're also loaded with nifty new features for "second screen" video viewing, as well as a real-time video tech support feature that must be seen to be believed.
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