Amazon’s long-awaited tablet is finally here, in the form of the Kindle Fire. The $199 tablet runs a heavily modified version of Android, hooks neatly into Amazon’s gigantic book store, and is designed for multimedia consumption and, more than anything, reading.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Barnes & Noble Nook, released months ago, is designed for essentially the same thing. The Nook Color is the clearest competitor to the Kindle Fire, but given the hype surrounding the new tablet, it seems more likely that the holiday season’s biggest question will be “should I get a Kindle Fire or an iPad ?”

The answer to that question boils down to what you want to do with a tablet. The Kindle Fire and Apple iPad compete primarily along content lines: The iPad has iTunes, with its millions of songs, TV shows, movies and books; and the Kindle Fire has Amazon, with, well, basically the same thing. The Kindle Fire can’t compete with the iPad’s A5 processor, its 500,000 apps, or its 64GB of internal storage, but at $199 it doesn’t have to. The iPad is certainly a more impressive machine, but that may not matter to every user.

The differences between the Kindle Fire and the Nook Color boil down similarly to a company vs. company debate. The specs of the two devices are nearly the same: 7-inch tablets running heavily customized versions of Android, 8GB of internal storage (though the Nook Color has a micro SD slot), 8-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, and even similar dimensions and weight. Barnes & Noble boasts a giant bookstore with tons of periodicals, newspapers, and even children’s books; Amazon does the same. If you’re already in the Barnes  & Noble ecosystem, it’s difficult to leave it for Amazon, but Amazon’s offering of music, movies, and TV shows in addition to its book library is awfully compelling.

The Kindle Fire doesn’t compete well with the A5 processor of the iPad 2, or the vast on-board memory, but of course it is $300 cheaper! It does however compete with the vast array of media it taps into at Amazon, just like iTunes. There are no cameras on board the Fire as well, which is nothing to overlook for some shoppers, others don’t mind.

All 3 devices have short battery lives, but that’s what you get with a back lit color LCD touch screen. The user is tethered to the charger in exchange for a mind blowing portable entertainment system or ebook reader.

You can read my previous article about kindle fire review

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<a href=”http://whatis-kindle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/kindle-vs-sony-reader.jpg”>With so much choice on the market for eBook readers, it’s difficult to know which way to turn for your choice of eBook reader. Here, we weigh up two of the major players: the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader range.

Comparison Kindle Vs Sony Reader

For comparison purposes lets take a look at the Sony PRS 505 and the latest generation Amazon Kindle. The Sony Reader is a bit smaller than the Kindle. The Kindle may be slightly easier to read, while the Sony is easier to drop in a shirt pocket or purse. Telling the difference in quality of the implementation of electronic ink and electronic paper of the Sony Reader vs Kindle is almost impossible.

The Sony PRS 505 has only 192 Megabyte of memory, but has memory card options to add SD memory up to 2 Gigabyte, or a memory stick option to take it all the way to 8 Gigabyte of memory. While adding memory to the Sony Reader vs Kindle will make it higher priced that the Kindle, but it gives you much more flexibility.

Touch Screen: Sony had made the use of an eReader feel more natural by introducing two touch screen versions, the Touch Edition, and the Daily Edition. Most people are averse to using keyboard buttons to turn pages on a Kindle.

The Sony Readers has a long lasting battery, being able to last for two weeks on a single charge.The Kindle can last up to 30 days with WiFi turned off, which allows for infrequent charges and longer reads.

With the Kindle eReader you use their proprietary AZW format and Sony readers use the open source EPUB format. With Sony you can download many books from your public library. Reading pdf files is easy with the Sony and you have to jump through some hoops to read pdf files with the Kindle.

You can read my previous article about Nook Vs Kindle Consumer Reports

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Kindle vs Kobo, There is a new device in town which has successfully dominated the electronic gadgets industry, bringing a lot of attention back to reading; this is the electronic reading device. Many of these electronic reading devices are coupled with LCD reflective technology and multimedia players and tons of other features and functionalities.

Kobo is one of the newer products to enter into the ebook reader competition. The Kobo is made by Borders. The most basic comparison between the Kindle and the Kobo will show you that the Kobo is one of the cheapest ereaders on the market and is very capable of reading ebooks. The Kobo is slightly smaller in size than the Kindle.

The big advantage the Kobo has is its price. The Kobo is great at reading ebooks and is significantly cheaper than the Kindle. The Kobo is possibly the least expensive e-reader on the market at $99 for basic and $149 with WiFi, but the product is known to run slow and have some bugs. The Kindle costs $139 and higher.

Both of these devices use e-ink technology to display the books. E-Ink makes the screens of e-readers resemble paper, reducing eye strain and glare. They also both have impressive battery lives, with the Kindle lasting up to ten days with WiFi and one month without, and the Kobo lasting as much as two weeks.

The Kindle offers so much more than the Kobo. If you want extra features from your ebook reader besides just the ability to read ebooks then your choice should be the Kindle. With the Kindle you gain access to highlight options, a note making tool, search functionality, built in dictionary, and page search options. Your reading experience while using this device is essentially enhanced without adding complexity.

Downloading and purchasing books is a much simpler process with the Kindle eBook reading device, because it’s possible for you to carry out this entire process directly from the device. The Kobo on the other hand requires either Bluetooth or USB in order for you to download eBooks to it.

You can read my previous article about Kobo Review

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