Amazon working on a new 3D smartphone

Rumors that Amazon is developing a smartphone dating since late 2011 or so. Now, as the familiar Wall Street Journal, the company is working on not one, but two phones.
The report indicates that Amazon is putting all his effort into the creation of several devices, two of which will be smartphones, and one of these two smartphones will be 3D (yes, 3D screen). The 3D screen smartphones are not new, but the truth is often not seen very often. It seems that the new Amazon Mobile will not need 3D glasses to enjoy three dimensional content.
In addition to these phones, says the company is also developing a device for streaming music and also a kind of decoder for TVs, all of which have not yet been officially confirmed. So far all Amazon developments at the level of hardware have focused on the Kindle readers and their tablets. Last year, CEO Jeff Bezos said they were planning to expand its range of hardware next year, ie in this 2013.
There will be attentive, for surely within the next few months Amazon will present its new smartphones.

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The Amazon smartphone remains on track

New rumors say that Amazon  is working on a smartphone that will get to be on par line tablet Kindel Fire. It seems that the company has chosen not to use a 4.3-inch screen and has chosen one of 4.7 inches instead. Apart from this, it is rumored that this phone will be released between April and June.

Amazon is working on improving several features and specifications of mobile, although not many details, but at least we know that the screen has been modified and will not be what was originally intended. This is due to a growing demand for large-screen smartphones was detected in the market. While the launch is expected to take place during the second quarter, manufacturing problems at the level of Foxconn could delay plans Amazon.

As noted earlier, this smartphone used a modified version of the operating system Android and would use the mapping service Nokia instead of using using much of the competition, that of Google .

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Amazon anuncia reducción del precio del Kindle Fire 8.9

Amazon just announced that it will soon be available one thing that will surely happy to many: a Kindle Fire 08.09 cheaper than normal. Yes, the 8.9-inch version of the Kindle is cheaper than ever and has the technology that characterizes it.

The WiFi model of the Kindle Fire tablet will now cost 09.08 less $ 30, down to $ 270 dollars, while the 4G + WiFi model will cost $400, that is $ 100 less than usual.

According to the company said, the high demand, in turn mixed with a great production that is taking place, have led to the reduction in the price of the device to try and get some extra benefits making many sales.

The division president of Kindle, Dave Limp, has said that they like to take this opportunity and allow customers to save a few dollars.

It is also believed that the price cut is an attempt by Amazon to improve sales during this year's new room is coming, which usually holds the worst levels of profits when it comes to electronic devices.

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All you need to know about Sony Xperia Z

 

Sony Xperia Z finally reached the Spanish market amid great expectations. Here is a general review of the new Sony product is available at a cost of 669 euros.

The terminal promising Sony just arrived to the Spanish market since last February 25. Although Sony Xperia Z will come with Android 4.1.2 system, the company announced that in the coming days updated version of its mobile system for a better experience.

The arrival of Sony Xperia Z to Spain is part of the protocol that expands advertising in several European countries. The purchase of the product can also be performed from Amazon Spain where thousands of Spanish made your reservation before the official launch. A curious detail is that reservations through Amazon Spain were imported from Germany.

At first glance, Sony Xperia Z leaves broadly satisfied to consumers, with a versatile and multifunctional device that plays to visual resources, and interaction with a category of applications focused on the social treatment.

For now the future is unknown to be his brother Sony Xperia ZL, which has no release date or official price. It is not known when landed on European soil.

About the cost of Sony Xperia Z should be noted that currently the terminal availability is listed at 669 euros, while Spain retained Amazon have a value of 611 euros. Which of the two methods do you prefer?

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Ouya The console will go on sale in June for $ 100

 

As of June, and we can console ourselves with a new non-Nintendo, or Sony or Microsoft. We are talking about the Ouya, a console that runs Android and can be ours only $ 100. Julie Uhrman, Ouya CEO, says that the console will be available even in online stores like Amazon, Best Buy, Target, etc..

The Ouya come with a Bluetooth wireless controller, an adapter, two AA batteries and an HDMI cable. Additional controls will cost $ 50 each. If you ask for your hardware, the Ouya has Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core 1.7GHz, includes 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal memory, has a slot for SD cards, has a USB 2.0 port, a microUSB, a HDMI and WiFi features. The OS will be Android 4.1 specifically Jelly Bean.

Already more than 200 games in development, including the shooter Shadowgun and a version of Final Fantasy III. The aim of the Ouya, Uhrman explained, is not to compete with the Xbox or PlayStation, but to create their own environment.

The console can now be pre-ordered. Any plans to purchase one or prefer to save and wait for the release of the PS4 or new Xbox?

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Coin Amazon presents its new currency

Amazon is the biggest online store in the world and undoubtedly has a big slice of the e-commerce market, so it makes sense that they have decided to launch its own currency, which is known simply as Coin. It is a virtual currency that consumers can use to buy apps and games on the line from one of the company's tablet, the Kindle Fire.

The Coin launch will occur in May and it seems to only be available for the United States. Amazon plans to launch an equivalent Coins $ 10 million to promote its new virtual currency. This does not mean that consumers will be forced to use it. Those who want to keep paying using traditional methods can do.

That being said, 1 Coin is worth about 1 cent on the dollar, so Amazon will have to make a strong campaign for the adoption of the new currency to be successful.

What do you think about the virtual money? Like or prefer to use payment methods a little more classic?

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The iPad generates 87% of the web traffic from tablets

With the advent of new tablets like the Nexus of Google and new versions of the Amazon Kindle Fire may think that using the iPad Apple is being reduced, but in reality this is not so. According to a company Chitika, the iPad is still dominating web traffic level in the market for tablets. The survey reveals that, on average, 100 people surfing the Internet via an iPad, 5 are doing it on a Kindle Fire, a tablet makes a Nexus and 3 do through a Galaxy tablet from Samsung . Obviously there are other tablets that also generate a percentage, but it is too small to be taken into account separately. All this means that the iPad generates 87% of the web traffic level tablets, although these results are obviously only for North America, so it is very possible that the world will be a little different.
Still, the iPad is still going through good times and no doubt this will continue for a while until someone achieves dethrone the king, which it does not seem that would happen soon.

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Kindle Fire HD dominates sales on Amazon

Since it was introduced about 4 months ago, the Kindle Fire HD has become a best-selling device, particularly for Christmas, where many have chosen to buy a gift, taking it to number one in sales among all products that are available on Amazon. Note that the following three posts are also dominated by Kindle products, the Kindle Fire being this, the original Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite respectively.
Christmas Day was the day which made ​​the most digital downloads in the history of Amazon. This includes downloads of movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, audiobooks, applications, etc. In addition, it is estimated that more than 15 million products were sent to different parts of the globe.
There is no doubt that business is good for Amazon and especially for great tablet, the Kindle Fire HD.
Are you the lucky owner of a Fire HD? If you have not, would you like to have one?

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ASUS wants to be behind Apple in the tablet market next year

ASUS is a name that everyone knows. At least not where it concentrates a major world markets tablets: U.S.
In that nation, and most of the rest of the globe, the best known manufacturer of tablets is obviously Apple , who since being released iPad ranks first in the charts. ASUS has proven to be a company that produces products quality, but is it enough to reach the apple?
Unfortunately not, at least not in the next year. ASUS known to want to compete directly with Apple for first place is something crazy, so we have decided that in 2013 will have to settle for the silver medal, a task that will not be easy, as the company will have tough competition from Samsung and Amazon, who are located in the second and third place respectively.
As the developer of the famous ASUS Nexus 7 no doubt that you have the capabilities and technology to succeed and get on the podium, but we must not forget that the competition will not crush without war before.
Do you think you achieved ASUS become a recognized brand in the market for tablets?

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Microsoft and Amazon could be preparing their new smartphones

We know the tablet Microsoft, the Surface, and reportedly the company may be developing yet another tablet called Xbox Surface, but other news of which we have not discussed is that the giant software may be preparing further hardware , and this time in the form of a smartphone that will run, obviously, Windows Phone 8, which is a good idea as the market for mobile offers good possibilities and WP devices are becoming increasingly popular.
Recently, the WSJ said that Microsoft was working with Foxconn to develop a new smartphone between 4 and 5 inches, but it seems that is not the only company that does it, because Amazon is also working with the aforementioned Asian manufacturer producing its own modern smartphone technology .
So far nothing is known about specifications, and in fact, we can not actually confirm that these devices are being developed, but we hope to soon have some extra filtration, or in the best case, an official confirmation.

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Analysis of Kindle Fire

 

In late October in Spain began selling new family of devices Amazon tablet: the new Kindle Fire arriving in two different versions starting from the competitive price of 160 euros

The new tablets can be bought from the online store Amazon and shipping to different parts vary between 3 and 10 euros depending on the area. Since Amazon have confirmed that some stores have specific models available for physical sale, an excellent option for those who do not trust the mailings or have a shop near where traditional power shopping.
There will be two different models, one that includes advertising cheaper and one a little more expensive than worth the price for the convenience of eliminating any ad that could hinder our reading.

Product Reviews

On a technical level the two models are equal Fire Kindle, Amazon has chosen a rather interesting strategy that has proven very successful. For 160 euros we access the traditional Kindle Fire tablet 7 inch screen, Internet connection via WiFi and resolution of 1025 x 600 pixels. The internal memory is 8 GB storage and uses an advertising system that offers on-screen displays in the moments that we are not using the device.

 

 

For 180 euros acquired a version identical to the processor is the same with the frequency of 1.2 GHz and 1 GB of RAM, but the sample is removed advertisements. It is an interesting option for users who do not wish at any time to see Amazon advertising to promote their products. For 20 euros the difference is small but there are those who prefer to save and use the advertising model of Kindle Fire. Particularly not mind as he bids on the screen only when we are not reading or using the tablet.
But Amazon does not stand still and continues to grow its family of Kindle Fire tablets with the new HD. This model has a higher resolution screen, 1280 x 800 pixels, and a dual-core processor.
This new version is better in terms of availability as it comes in four different versions according to the size of the buffer. There then version 16 or 32 GB with or without advertising. The respective rates are: 200, 214, 250 and 264 euros.

 

Any of the models of Kindle Fire tablet runs on the Android operating system but with a retouched version that includes the application shop Amazon. You can install Google Play Store with a simple touch and thereafter enjoy the thousands of applications available in the official Google store but Amazon is not bad, it's just smaller.
The increased importance of Kindle Fire in the tablet market is that it was one of the first devices to present fight against iPad, the king until recently sales and product of 7 inches. The arrival of Nexus and Samsung landing in the world of tablets has changed the landscape but Amazon still has a strong presence in the sector.
The devices offer high quality and low price also served to encourage Google to launch Nexus 7 and 10 or smaller versions of iPad mini. So Kindle Fire is still there and maybe get a good number of sales with its new Kindle Fire HD device.

Specifications

 

Kindle Fire

• Touch screen 7 inch, 1025 x 600 pixel resolution
• 1.2 GHz Processor
• RAM 1 GB
• Memory 8 GB storage
• WiFi
• Prices: 160 - 180 euros

Kindle Fire HD

• 7 inch touch screen, resolution 1280 x 800 pixels
• Dual Core 1.5 GHz Processor
• RAM 1 GB
• WiFi
• Memory storage, 16-32 GB
• Prices: 200, 214, 250, 264 euros

Positives

Among the positive aspects that we should not fail to note in the family found the price Kindle Fire and visual quality. Tablets are of good quality in materials and resistance offered no technology but adapted to the needs of a large segment of the market that uses tablets for simple internet browsing, reading e-books and e-mail.
It costs more positive point as it opened the possibility of offering cheap tablets and now have joined this modality Google and Apple.

Negatives

At the technological level Kindle Fire devices not stand even the latest HD Kindle Fire falls short of tablets like the Google Nexus 7. However it offers a different style of tablet and pointing to a much more widespread.
Shop Amazon, although interesting, is not up to Google Play Store and activate it to do some tinkering with the operating system.

Conclusion

Kindle Fire is a very important family of tablets on the market because it opened the game to new economic devices. They offer good visual quality and control, but could improve the look of the operating system to get more out of a variety of software available for Android. They are durable and resistant tablets, ideal for the home and family.

Videos

Amazon Kindle Fire demo

Amazon Kindle Fire hands-on

Kindle Fire TV Commercial 

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Amazon could acquire the chips section of Texas Instruments

A new report suggests that Amazon is already talking with Texas Instruments to acquire their section for the manufacture of chips for mobile phones . As you know, the company was Texas Instruments OMAP processor that created the Kindle Fire HD.
Last month, TI announced that he was interested in leaving the chip business for mobile due to lower sales and instead would focus on other markets. The company has had a very tough competition from others such as Samsung, Qualcomm and Nvidia.
According to an Israeli newspaper, negotiating with Amazon is well advanced and it is possible that companies close the deal with an amount estimated to be approximately $ 1,000 million.

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Amazon updates its Kindle app for Mac

 

Amazon has just released a new version of its app Kindle for Mac computers. Now the application supports multitouch in OS X Lion.
Among the new features of the new version also found support for Kindle Format 8 books, classic bug fixes and error and of course it has improved the performance of the application. Another update, you may not be interested, there is now native support for Japanese content.
You can get the Kindle app from here .

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Bing will be the default browser of Kindle Fire HD

What a surprise! Both Microsoft and Amazon itself has confirmed that the new Kindle Fire tablet HD use the search engine Bing as the default search engine.

Apparently, this agreement is very recent and the latest details of it were agreed yesterday.Besides appearing in the default HD Fire, Bing also will welcome in the new models of Kindle Fire (original) to be sold from now on.

If you, like me, do not like Bing, then do not worry, you can set another search engine like Google , Yahoo!, etc.. according to your preferences.

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Amazon has the Kindle Fire HD

The tablet that many have been waiting for has finally been submitted. Since Amazon unveiled the successor to the popular Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire and is called HD. Will this new tablet be as successful as the previous one? Probably.

We must clarify first of all that the Kindle Fire HD is available in two different sizes: 7 inches and 8.9 inches. The device measures only 8mm thick and weight 560 grams round in the case of larger ones.

The technology that incorporates the tablet is not bad, because it takes OMAP 4470processor, a Cortex-A9 2-core. The tablet also has two speakers, an HDMI output and WiFi has two: one that runs on 2.4GHz frequency and the other with 5GHz. Amazon says the Kindle Fire WiFi HD is 41% faster than the new iPad (iPad 3).

If you ask for prices, the 8.9-inch version with 16GB of memory will be available from November 20 for $ 300. If you want 4G LTE connectivity and 32GB will cost you $ 500. And in regard to the younger brother of seven-inch will cost $ 200 dollars since September 14.

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The Secret World for $ 25 at Amazon.com

 

Good deal we've found today in the popular shop Amazon.com, and they are offering a digital copy of The Secret World at only $ 25, half of your asking price. The game comes with 30 days included and is a great opportunity if you quedasteis with the desire to try.
The Secret World takes place in a world like ours, a world where monsters and demons, magic and curses, conspiracy theories and those fighting the shadows are real. That's the story behind The Secret World. These things do exist around us, and increasingly people are becoming aware not only of darkness and the strangeness that surrounds them, but the powers within them, to help them fight it.

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canon 35mm 1.8

 

NIKON 35MM f/1.8G AF-S DX NIKKOR

Wide aperture lens of 35 mm with high quality optics and compact dimensions designed for use with Nikon DX format Nikon. Includes a large maximum aperture of f / 1.8 to ensure a bright viewfinder image and is ideal for shooting situations with poor lighting. Provides high resolution and contrast with quiet autofocus.

My Review
In this camera the 50mm will probably be a little long, and small interiors, where you want to do a full body may not have enough space, I would use the 35, although the 35mm if you make shots very close to the subject can come to experience distortions are not always very nice, depends on the type of places where you take photos, I for example I did a 16-35 for full body shots indoors is very small and good, very good sharpness, but it gets distorted.

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Amazon already sells more ebooks than paper books in the UK

The ebook has already won the game against the paper book, at least in the UK. Amazon just announced in a press release sales figures for its popular electronic book reader family, Kindle, has exceeded the total sales in traditional format, in both paperback and in tough in Britain. In May 2011, sales of ebooks for Kindle had already advanced, with a ratio of 2-1, the hardcover.

For every 100 books printed Amazon.co.uk sell, have sold 144 eBooks. The difference could be even greater, since in the final tally Amazon did not include free Kindle books (many editions of classic and contemporary texts that their authors make for free download) but those texts that are on paper but not in ebook.

"Consumers in the UK are now choosing more often Kindle books printed books, even though our business is growing role," said in a statement Jorrit van der Meulen, vice president of Kindle for Europe. "As a result of the success of the Kindle, we are selling more books than ever for the benefit of authors and publishers."

Readers who read more have a Kindle, as Amazon says. Each of them buys four times more books than before they bought the electronic reader. And according to the firm defends not only buy mail: also made with paper books.

Phenomenon Fifty Shades of Grey

The figures will also update the podium of record sales in electronic form. JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, and yields his throne to the author of a trilogy of very different. EL James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey, becomes the best selling author of Amazon in the UK, getting in just four months, two million books sold through its erotic novel trilogy.

James has become a global publishing phenomenon, breaking sales records and becoming a minority gender in a quite popular.

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WHDI, avoid cable clutter in the dining room

 

Technology advances and one of the most practical discoveries was that of wireless technology, which lets you connect wirelessly to disturb the pace. Today there are many wireless devices, but still the TV usually requires many different inputs for DVD players, Blu-ray, consoles, audio equipment and much more, but WHDI gets a chance to eliminate the hassle of bypass jumper cables from side to side in the room.
But this technology, which solves our problems by eliminating the need for cables, is expensive and not yet standardized. The wireless transmission system HD is just taking its first steps and protocols are most commonly used in multimedia equipment and WHDI WiDi computing devices.
The Chinese, as always, have offers cheaper and more accessible for this type of technology. Whether DealExtreme stores like Amazon or the same, the Chinese produce different brands but are not recognized as Samsung or Sony, they work relatively well and are accessible, working in the 5 GHz band without interfering with WiFi networks home.

The devices are available in these stores usually include a remote control and can send a full HD signal at a distance of 30 meters. The price is about 130-150 euros. Another option is Gefen, a little more expensive but more support in terms of quality. The price amounts to 330 euros but offers an issuer which also supports 3D video.
Phillips also has a proposal with multiple HDMI jacks, SWW1800 has four inputs (2 HDMI, 2 component) and serves as a small media hub so you can get the equipment out of the room but enjoy high quality picture and sound.

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Kindle digital book sale surpasses the physical copies from Amazon UK

 

After two years of release on Kindle in the UK, sales of digital books Amazon has surpassed sales of print books . English readers received the Kindle in August 2010 and by May the following year, sold more digital books hardcover copies with a ratio of two to one. This latest milestone includes hardcover books such as smooth.
Amazon said that this is especially exciting as they reached this milestone in the United Kingdom in half the time in the U.S., where it took over two years that digital books outweigh the hardcover and nearly four years to overcome physical copies in general . Despite the rapid adoption, the company said that its sales of printed books continues to grow.
Amazon.co.uk has sold 114 Kindle books for every 100 books printed so far in 2012, excluding Kindle books are not included costs but hardcover copies without digital versions. The company also reported that people with a Kindle are more likely to read and buy four times more material than they did before. Although many are still buying printed books.
Finely, three authors in the top 10 Kindle - Nick Spalding, Katia Lief and Kerry Wilkinson - were posted through the KDP ( Direct Kindle Publishing ) from Amazon, which pays up to 70% in royalties. As always, Amazon would rather not share exact numbers but mentioned that Wilkinson has sold over 300,000 copies of his books and EL James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey, has broken records in both the digital and physical copies market, selling more than two million Kindle books in just four months.

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