I have no thought because you'd wish to purchase it, unless you do a lot of typing while getting more information a book, but the Kindle 3 has not usually survived the keyboard-culling bloodbath that happened in New York yesterday, it has gotten a new, cheaper price.
$40 is the bonus Amazon has staid on if you select to agree to ads on the new Kindles, and $40 is what Amazon has right away lopped off the cost of what is right away called the Kindle Keyboard. The non ad-supported Kindle Keyboard is the same $140 as before.
Despite the name change, we have a feeling that these Kindles will be killed once prolongation on the new models is going at full speed. Just examine their place in the lineup. To prevent things from apropos even more confusing, we'll look usually at the ad-supported prices, that is the new default positioning from Amazon. To eliminate ads from any of these, just increase $40.
The cheapest Kindle is right away the $80 Kindle. This lacks a set of keys (you "type" by relocating a cursor over an on-screen set of keys using the d-pad) and has Wi-Fi only.
The Kindle Touch is $100, the same cost as the Kindle Keyboard. The Kindle Touch 3G is $150, since the Kindle Keyboard 3G is $10 less, at $140. Weird, right? And of course confusing, with models pity cost points.
But the oddest thing of all is the disparity between the top-end e-ink Kindle and the shade Kindle Fire when ads are taken out (there is no ad-supported Fire). The ad-free Kindle Touch 3G is $190. The Fire is $200. That minuscule $10 disparity is the most appropriate explanation nonetheless that Amazon is heavily subsidizing the Fire hardware to obtain the cost down.
And this is something Amazon can simply means to do because, different Samsung, Motorola and other Android inscription makers, Amazon will go on to make money on every Fire after it is sold. Movies, books, music: all the median user puts on their Fire will be paid for from Amazon. There's no way other manufacturers can compete. Who the ruin is going to purchase a 7-inch Milky Way Tab now?
Kindle Comparison page [Amazon]
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