Live from Amazon’s tablet event in NYC! — Engadget
Exciting news for mobile computing fans.
Kindle Touch – Seems to be designed to compete with the Nook Simple Touch. No keyboard but touchscreen and definitely appears to be e-ink. It’s $99 for the regular and $149 for the 3G version that works in 100 countries. Time to enable 3G, Barnes & Noble? Also, people can choose to pay $40 less for the same thing or $10 more for 3G compared to Nook. That makes me sad. Price drop time?
Kindle – This seems to be an entry-level device. It has no touchscreen but, of course, has buttons, and only costs $79. I don’t see why people wouldn’t want to drop an extra $20 for the Touch, but whatever.
Kindle Fire – A Nook Color ripoff! How surprising! It’s a 7″ Android tablet for $199. There wasn’t a mention of how much of the Android OS you can reach. In other words, really a Nook Color ripoff! Again, it’s cheaper though, so I suspect we’ll see a price drop from Barnes & Noble. I look forward to their response!