Gadgetory

it's Wednesday September 28th 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnet com and it's time to get loaded rumors have been rapid for almost years now that amazon.com would be releasing a tablet of its own and this morning the company has confirmed it it's called the kindle fire and has a 7-inch IPS touchscreen is powered by a version of the android operating system and has a dual core processor the 14 point 7 ounce Kindle Fire will build on Amazon's whisper sick technology and add the ability to work with movies and TV shows in addition to books and Amazon will be offering free cloud storage in addition to everything you would expect from a modern tablet amazon has also created their own web browser called silk that will supposedly speed up web surfing using Amazon's own servers the kicker the Kindle Fire will only cost 199 dollars on top of that it comes with Wi-Fi connectivity no 3g unfortunately and 30 days of free amazon prime the kindle fire isn't the only device that amazon announced they're also updating the regular kindle e-reader and the prices will start at just $79 the new low-priced kindle will ship today the price wasn't the only thing that they've changed they've made it eighteen percent thinner and they've also added new Kindle Touch models with touchscreen capabilities starting at just ninety nine dollars for fifty dollars more the Kindle Touch also gets 3g capability these touch models will ship November 21st in case you haven't heard we finally have an announcement for the announcement of the next iPhone Apple sent out press invites for their let's talk iphone event and it's set for next Tuesday at ten a.m. Pacific at the apple campus in typical apple fashion there are no details yet rumors have been floating that other carriers like spit will be getting the next generation iphone well you know who's not getting the next iphone t-mobile the company's chief marketing officer sent out an open letter on t-mobile's blog saying that they wanted to concentrate on giving customers the best android has to offer translation no iphone next week on star says nevermind on their privacy changes they won't track users with expired subscriptions and they won't give that data to any third party after being bombarded with angry customers they just are taking it all back delicious is back well back to beta vet is the bookmarking site has seen a lot of turmoil over the last year but now the development team behind the site is looking to build upon the service with a new feature that they call stacks it's described as playlist for websites rather than share a single bookmark now users can share whole collections of pages those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson Tang for CNN com and you've just been loaded