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what's up everyone John Retton here from TechnoBuffalo here with an unboxing that I'm really excited about this is the Amazon Kindle Fire it marks new territory for Amazon as they stay away from the traditional iing displays and moving to more traditional tablets that's what this guy is it's got a backlit panel a ton of media options to go ahead and rip open its cardboard housing and see if it can catch fire Kindle your interest some other bedroom all right so the Kindle Fire comes in traditional Amazon Kindle boxes just a little bit bigger so that cardboard very green friendly go ahead and pull a tab the tab has been pulled let's go ahead and see we got and there is the Amazon Kindle Fire sitting right on top on the top portion here it's like we've got some sort of information guide getting to know your Kindle well I'll get to know my Kindle right now hello Kindle my name is John so here is the Amazon Kindle Fire we'll take a look at that in just a second push that off to the side we're going to get not much else in the box here is power and looks like it's being fully powered by microUSB so that's always nice no proprietary adapters there and I think that that's pretty much it nothing else in the box let me get a cord for syncing that is it art so throw that off here is the Kindle Fire it's go ahead and kill off plastic just try to fam classic is off do my Emeril let him slide this out here well this does feel incredibly like the BlackBerry PlayBook alright so push that down go ahead and try and power it on I didn't find a power button well it lives on the bottom ha and I will run through the specs of this guy hopefully he's got enough charge Julie show you something there we go you can see the little fire starts to pop up there alright so let me run through what you can expect when you pick up your Kindle Fire which is coincidentally enough available today so it's going to be priced at 199 dollars so a really affordable price point for those that are looking to get into the tablet market it's running a completely customized version of Android 2.3 but they sort of forked away that's my fort away from Amazon and they're not using some of the native Amazon apps that you are the native Google apps that you might see on traditional honeycomb tablets you're not gonna have androids native app store instead you're going to have the Android app store which as somewhere in the realm of thousand apps right now so developers have to code for Amazon's ecosystem and Google you're not gonna get the native Google Apps like Gmail in here as well but allegedly there are third-party support to get your email on here hopefully but we'll check that out from a dimension standpoint 7.5 inches by 4.7 inches by 0.45 inches and if you want to know what this thing feels like in the hand and you haven't had a chance to go see one if you've held the BlackBerry PlayBook they are almost identical allegedly rim used the reference design for the BlackBerry PlayBook it weighs fourteen point six ounces so it's a very light tablet on the back you got sort of soft touch feel it says Kindle and blaze in there no camera present here on this guy as well as you can obviously see so go ahead and unlock that again slide to unlock this and we'll go sort it to the home screen it's got a seven inch multi-touch display with IPS technology with a resolution of 1024 by 600 and for those of you math folks that's 169 PPI Kindles are known for their ridiculously long battery life this guy is going to give you eight hours of a continuous reading or seven and a half hours video what the wireless turned off it's being powered by a one gigahertz dual-core chip it's got 512 megabytes of RAM only eight gig of storage and you're not gonna find no matter how hard you look a microSD card slot here no camera it's Wi-Fi only and don't have any sort of three genus in here it's got Amazon silk browser which does some server-side rendering for supposedly faster browsing you've got a free month of Amazon Prime in here so I'm gonna go ahead and log in and I'll take you through the operating system a little bit alright so after some software updates looks like we're finally rebooting here let me walk you through the device and give you a bit of a tour so you've got that now familiar bezel list display here that sort of hides the screen when it's turned off and again it's an IPS display at the resolution of 1024 by 600 seven inches on the left hand side of advice we've got nothing on the right hand side we've got nothing on the top we've got two speakers on the bottom there is your power button your charging port and 3.5 millimeter headset and that's about it so let's do a real quick size comparison about the Kindle Fire with let's say the current generation Kindle I can definitely see the difference there obviously this is e ink this uses the IPS backlit display go and stack these two you can certainly see there's a Fitness difference it's a whole Kindle family here and if we bring in something like the iPad 2 for example I'll stack these guys on top of each other you can see the screen difference here as well and the thickness between these two so I'm going to keep in mind at this price point you have to be reasonable with your expectations at $200 you're not going to get the specs of a $400 or $500 but like the iPad 2 or a lot of the honeycomb tablets out there what you're gonna get is reasonable specifications you're gonna get a dual-core chip and 512 megabytes of RAM but the real sort of Trojan horse here is that you're getting access to Amazon's ecosystem so you're gonna have access to all the prime videos and that's Amazon Prime enough prime isn't like awesome or Optimus you're also gonna get access to their incredible library of books magazines there's a comics application in here which is supposed to be pretty impressive and you're getting a web browser with access to the Amazon App Store as well so it's an entry level tablet certainly but it's priced very competitively you're gonna lose out on some storage with only eight gigs but you've got cloud storage options here as well so very curious to play around with the device see how it works of course we'll be doing a ton of hands-on demonstrations at TechnoBuffalo so be sure to check us out for all of your kindle fire news fact it probably seeing most of it later on today so if you keep checking back the site you will be seeing a lot of Kindle Fire coverage I'm John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo I'm going to take a look at this new tablet I'll come back with some more coverage I'll see you guys next video bye bye you