The new Amazon 6-inch tablet costs $50, which is half the price of the cheapest Fire device. As the massive retailer struggles to sell their pricier tablets, the only way further is downwards.
The new Amazon 6-inch tablet is aimed at those buyers that are looking for a more simple device and aren’t willing to cough up major doe for streaming videos.
According to close sources, the Seattle-based company is planning to release their 50 bucks, 6-inch screen tablet in time for this year’s holiday season. This means that it will be one of the cheapest tablets on the market.
Amazon will offer a straightforward tablet which will be effectively disposable. Rumors have it that it will sport inferior specs, but for $50 we don’t need anyone telling us that.
The 6-inch tablet will be able to stream videos and users have the possibility of shopping on Amazon.com. Basically, you won’t be doing much with it. Durability, screen quality and battery life will be highly inferior if you dare to compare them with Apple’s iPad and even Amazon’s high-end Fire tablets.
The device will not have a stereo speaker built-in. In its stead, you will find a mono speaker.
The 50 bucks tablet is part of Amazon’s new product line that also includes other tablets with better specs. Also, bigger screens – 8-inch and respectively 10-inch.
Amazon Fire HD 6
Jeff Bezos, Chief Executive dubbed Lord and Savior of the first world, has always sought new ways to undercut the company’s hardware competitors. Amazon outsources almost everything when it comes down to manufacturing their new cheap-as-hell devices.
Much of the development was done overseas by a company called Shanghai Huaqin Telecom Technology Co. – Taiwan-based Compal Communications Inc. also plays a major role.
Amazon’s Lab126 did some of the grunt work, but not much, people close to the matter noted.
The cheapest Kindle costs $79. It could have been $50, but Amazon just couldn’t drop the retail price because the e-reader screen tech vendors wouldn’t settle for a bargain.
Cheap is really good, more so if you’re a cost-conscious buyer. But, is Amazon aware of what they are giving up? Are buyers aware that they will have an inferior experience? Will they tolerate it or will they dispose of their new purchase in a matter o weeks?
Everyone bashed Amazon and Bezos last year for pricing their Fire smartphone the same as Apple’s last gen iPhone. Regardless of packing it with a free Prime membership, which costs $99, nobody cared. Even when the massive on-line retailer cut down on the phone’s price tag sales didn’t change.
After their smartphone flop, Amazon laid off almost the entire group of engineers that worked on the Fire. The group was known to help develop Fire TV set-top boxes, Kindle e-readers, the Fire slate and other gadgets and devices.
Amazon’s cheapest Fire tablet, which currently sells for $99, includes adverts – they appear as screen savers. Want no ads and the same tablet? You’ll have to pay up $114.
It is unknown at the current moment if the Amazon 6-inch tablet will include ads or not.
Michael Turner
