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it's time to count the Kindles and welcome a new droid I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update amazon is refreshing its kindle tablets and e-readers in time for holiday shopping but there isn't just one or two new kindles there are seven new models ranging from eighty dollars to three hundred and eighty dollars if you're in the market for one here's an easy breakdown first let's go over the black and white EE greeters there's a new Kindle voyage it's two hundred dollars it's top of the line thinner lighter the processor is faster and the screen is brighter the front sides have pressure sensitive buttons for turning pages there's also an entry-level $80 model simply called kindle and it now also has a touch screen as for those color screen tablets the top of the line is the kindle fire HDX it's the most expensive at three hundred and eighty dollars and it's a competitor to the ipad air you get a sharper screen with something called dynamic light control it changes hughes depending on the light around you so the screen looks more like paper when you're reading the tablet weighs twenty percent lighter there's a better processor so it's faster and it also has better audio if you want a keyboard with a trackpad amazon will sell one for sixty dollars for the next level down there's the kindle fire HD it comes in many versions you can get a six inch screen for a hundred dollars or a 7-inch screen for 140 dollars the displays both are better and you can get it in a few colors they're loaded with the same tricks that you find on the fire foam there's Firefly for scanning products and the ability to create family profiles now if you want to get this for a kid just add another fifty dollars to the price and you get a bonus rubber case cover a year subscription to kid content with free time and if it gets smashed in the next two years amazon is going to send you a new one all are available for pre-order now and will come out in October now that's not all that's new with Amazon in the future amazon will have websites that end in dot by amazon just purchased the dot by domain extension for 4.6 million dollars amazon hasn't said what it's going to do with dot x but google was also trying to grab that domain in the world of apple for those that download the new iOS 8 you'll have to wait a little bit before you can use some new features in your health and fitness apps Apple reports that it's working to fix a bug that prevents health kit apps from working health kit is the hub that keeps track of data from your health apps and the data can be sent to doctors apple says it could be fixed by the end of the month and if you're more of a droid fan keep watch for a new motorola droid phone in october from Verizon sources tell us the big feature in this phone will be fast charging an extra long battery life that your tech news updated stay updated every day by following along on Twitter and subscribing to the podcast from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey