Kobo Vox : l'anti Kindle Fire & Nook Tablet ?

Kobo out the Vox, Tablet touch color "7 to $ 199 for the Fire of Amazon Kindle and the Nook Tablet of Barnes & Noble.

After the war of the e-Readers, the battle of the tablets 7 "touch begins between Kobo, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The Canadian out thus the Kobo Vox, Tablet touch colour 7 "running a modified Android 2.3 Gingerbread and proposed version for $ 199 as competitors the Fire of Amazon Kindle and the Nook Tablet of Barnes & Noble.

What can we hope to have the hands for this price there? A screen colour touchscreen 7 "of 1024 x 600 pixels, an ARM processor running at 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB of internal memory expandable by adding a (32 GB) microSDHC card and WiFi 802. .11n ready. This terminal will indeed of entire ecosystem developed by Kobo to read and sell eBooks on its electronic reading Kobo Touch as well as its wrapper social Reading Life.

Staggering the competition? Perhaps not, because a first test carried out by the LA Times reveals some gaps and critical defects (low autonomy, erratic navigation, lenteurs…) which, hopefully, peaceoperations aspects lifted will be out quickly by updates. Because the Fnac, as for the digital book Kobo by Fnac (tested here by us), is on the ranks for marketing in France, and it would be a pity to propose a poorly finalized product.

Especially as Fire Kindle and the Nook Tablet are ambushed, technically better equipped and of better returns users.

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Kindle Fire: large shipments, big success?

The Quanta assembler reached 3.5 million of Kindle Fire sent to Amazon, and think power to deliver 1.5 million more.

The Kindle Fire visibly continues the road to success. The small digital slate 7-inch Android of Amazon, oriented contained and sold $ 199, is more and more followers. That Quanta, which manages the production of the product lines, speeds up the pace and would be able to deliver up to 5 million copies by the end of December, or early January, according to well informed analysts. Another company, Wintek, which manufactures the Kindle Fire touch screens, also reached its target of delivery of 3.5 million coins before January.

However, other manufacturers of the Assembly of the Kindle Fire chain do not seem to keep the pace, preferring work flows tended to avoid the management of stocks and therefore loss of money in the case where the tablet of the bookseller online only to not sell as much as planned during Christmas. Because if there is anything that is not known, these are actual sales figures. That's not counting on the fact that this not expensive slate can be "rootée" and it is therefore possible to make a true Tablet open more only centered on the installed default interface pushing consumers to purchase exclusively on digital book giant Portal...

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Nook Tablet: a true competitor for Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble Announces Android Touch Pad 7 "at low prices to counter its competitor Amazon Kindle and Fire.

The season may be very busy in the segment of touch pads, entry-level. U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced the availability of its slate multimedia, Tablet Nook, in response to the attack of Amazon and its Kindle Fire.

The two competing models have the same characteristics are: IPS multitouch screen 7 "(resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels), TI OMAP processor double heart 1 GHz, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n ... but the Nook is characterized by a much more substantial RAM (1 GB 512 MB against Kindle for Fire) and a memory of 16GB expandable to 48 GB with SD card slot (only 8 GB of internal memory for Amazon model).

Lighter (412 grams against 499 grams for the tablet competitor) the Nook Tablet offers a range of comfortable 11 hours reading text and 9.5 hours in video mode. This superior technology is paid for by a tariff increase of 50 dollars or 249 dollars against 199 dollars for the Kindle Fire. Pre-orders are now open across the Atlantic, and will be delivered and available for sale only three days after the model of its direct competitor, is November 18.

               

To complete its range of content, Barnes & Noble has entered into various partnerships with Marvel, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora or Grooveshark, and offer a storage service in the cloud to its users through the Nook Cloud.

Note also that in order not to let Amazon steal market share of reading lights "simple", the American bookseller down the price of its Nook Color (from 249 to 199 dollars) and that of its Nook Touch (from 139 to 99 dollars). We can say that the release of Touch Kindle by Amazon price floor has been beneficial for consumers.

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Kobo out the Vox to counter the Kindle Fire of Amazon

Competition if rude announcement on market shelves-Bible covers electronic and Kobo hybrids account to keep pace by Amazon.

And for this, the Canadian company unveiled Wednesday its Kobo Vox, a Tablet touch color of 7-inch rotating under Android 2.3 and available October 28 across the Atlantic for $ 199 or 2 weeks before the Kindle Fire of rival Amazon. Hardware level, the Tablet is not first freshness with a processor running at 800 Mhz, 512 MB RAM, 8 GB memory expandable storage SD cards, it is thus designed as a reader of eBooks offering features and additional applications.

The slab of the screen has also been particularly pampered and uses technology AFFS + allowing reading in external and in full sun without annoying reflection. The slate will allow access to the 2.2 million books available in the shop of the manufacturer (in English) and Kobo Pulse will allow readers to react with each other in sharing or commenting on their reading. The French release date is not known but this model of Tablet may be announced by the Fnac recently.

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Fnac soon will retort in Kindle

Fnac sees a dim view of the arrival of the new Amazon Kindle at € 99 and announced its new electronic reading light.

 

Fnac must react quickly if it does not want to cut the rug out from under the giant e-commerce, which arrived this Friday, October 14 with its Kindle at unbeatable prices. And it's done in a few days since it unveiled its new generation of electronic reading lights, designed in partnership with the Canadian Kobo, an industry leader in his country.

The "by Kobo Fnac" could be a model with a touch screen 6 inches and offered a very attractive price. The Kindle is proposed at 99 € per Amazon, the French retailer will have to align to curry favor with the public and not to renew the failure of his previous Fnacbook with sales remain confidential. It will highlight why its catalog of 80,000 digital works so available in French against 30,000 for its direct competitor. Fnac also has an advantage, guests can come and try the product in one of 82 brands of the brand unlike Amazon, which sells reading lights only on paper.

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