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hey guys welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today we're going to be talking about the Amazon tablet which we've been hearing about a lot for the past couple of months now personally I've been will excite about this there are a lot of really really cool things about this tablet I think gonna make it a really really big success so let's go ahead and start with what we do know so recently a blogger / TechCrunch was able to get their hands on the amazon kindle tablet which that I don't think the name is quite official yet nothing i'm called the kindle tablet or just an amazon kindle or whatever but where's unique like the kindle tablet to keep it simple they actually got their hands on the 7-inch variety which should be available probably october november something like that in the next couple of months or so so there's a lot to like about this tablet the number one thing that i have to mention is it's the price it's going to be only two hundred fifty dollars now turn fifty dollars is kind of in the range of you know it's like an impulse purchase it's not like something like an iPad where 500 bucks that's kind of a lot of money but as far as you know couple hundred otters it's like most times like no big deal you can go pick that up and that's a big thing I think that's where tablets need to be now some of the others features about this is it is going to run Android about a kind of customized version so kind of similar to the grid OS guys took a look at that last month they announced there's gonna be a towel on the phone it's gonna be based on Android but it's going to be more more in depth in the skin it's actually going to be like a real rework of the OS well it seems like Amazon's going to be doing the exact same thing for the kindle tablet so what this means is that it's not going to really look anything like standard Android it will still use a lot of the same Android applications so it will have the Amazon App Store Amazon music of course have access to buying stuff on Amazon on so it's going to be really focused on getting you to be on amazon stuff all the time which obvious is the reason why they would do it some of the other things about the amazon towel is that will most likely have a single core processor i think it's a little bit of a disappointment i think in this kind of day we really need dual-core just across the board for you know anything especially in tablet however there are some decent single core processors and considering only page 150 dollars i can think of worse things they could have cut now like i said earlier it will be a 7-inch tablet now they are working on a 10-inch variety however i think a lot of that's going to depend on what how well the 7-inch does you know if the 7-inch two theorems sells well of all kind of stuff that i think definitely go ahead with the 10-inch but if it flops and the one buys it they probably won't but I'm unlikely we will be seeing a 10-inch variety which will almost definitely will be dual core probably sometime earlier next year so that's pretty much all we know about it so far like I said most likely will be launched in sometime in November and of course it will be exclusive to the amazon com just like the kindle was released for the first a little bit see I'm not looking forward I think it could be a major major game changer I mean the nook color is a pretty good tablet but it's not it's just only slowly starting to get some tablet features mean when it first launched it was an e-reader it really didn't do a whole lot of you know apps not constant and while slowly getting there i think if amazon can really push it go hey we have this new tablet it reads books it does internet and all that kind of stuff but it also has access to all our amazon services i really think they could do a great job anyway guys for the second segment of d3 live i'll be taking live questions from the chat as always every episode III live is foamed from the live audience we've got a ton of people in the room right now so squad and just take a couple of questions what version of Android will the tab will be running three point oh uh it's going to be running most likely an older version of Android what they did was they forked it or lady just kind of took a verte older version so i believe it was version 2.1 although it may be version 2.2 and but what it does is they've done some major customization so unlike like a normal Android tablet that you know gets updated to 3.0 and 3.1 I like some of stuff instead it's just going to be like if they decide to bring some stuff over but I wouldn't even be surprised they call it like Amazon tablet OS one point 0 or something like that so it's kind of to them but it's not going to be running a specific version of Android say heavily customized version of probably 2.1 or 2.2 one of those to do i think android will ever be ported to ipad yeah actually um on that note that's actually a great question on they eventually been getting fairly close to getting Android and Linux up on the iPad so now I wasn't sure the timeline thing like that but I do know that they were being so getting successful part of the I droid team on getting on Linux at least in once they get legs Android is doing not too far behind are up and running on the iphone for the ipod touch 4 and the ipad 1 so of course it could be a lot longer but it is being worked on it wouldn't be surprised if we do see it in the next something but yes pretty good news is it going to have lots of internal memory like 64 gigabytes actually no on the contrary because it's cheap and it's going to be mostly cloud-based the Amazon tablet will probably have more like eight gigs because like I said a lot it's going to be focused on you know for example cloud player so all your music should be up in the cloud kindle them you know the books don't really take up a lot of space yeah it'll most likely be an eight gig or perhaps a little bit less valid absolutely probably eight gigabytes of storage on the amazon kindle tablet guy say that a lot more before i could actually get used to it don't think PCOS will be in the cloud in the next ten years you know having an OS in the cloud I don't know it's the one thing with the cloud the problem is is that internet is not ubiquitous everywhere and you know in places like Korea and Japan where the Internet is almost everywhere that's not a huge problem but especially here in United States and some parts of Europe and Australia Canada you know it's you're gonna have problems that for one your latency is gonna be a little low so running out full PCOS in the cloud it would be really really laggy on top of that you obviously of course need to be connected to the Internet at all times if you have any kind of like bandwidth restrictions like you have like you know a cap of 100 gigabytes a month to something like that yeah that's gay office is going to eat up so um I don't know about PCOS based totally in the cloud in the next 10 years certainly parts of the OS are going up so for example like you know itunes and you know media players that kind of stuff indeed even some games are being you know moved to the cloud but as far as the core of the OS you know it's pretty much everything I don't see it happening in the next 10 years I think maybe a little bit beyond that bout Seattle is happening anytime soon um screen resolution same as the galaxy tab 10.1 and then actually one hundred percent sure I do know that it will be a 7-inch tablet and it perhaps it may be a little bit of a lower screen resolution but typically with that it's probably going to be something like 1024 x 600 or something like that anyway guys it's going to be about it for this episode of d3 live of course you guys interested in more you can go ahead and subscribe to the channel I do a video like this i do of course d3 live every saturday at three o'clock eastern time so you can come hang out watch it all alive on blog TV 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