Amazon has unveiled its tablet lineup of this year, introducing impressive new models, as well as a refreshed Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 with great improvements.
The company's tablet lineup has proved to be quite successful, unlike the unpopular Fire Phone, and Amazon is now ready to release its latest offerings. Of the new models, the Kindle Fire HDX refresh is particularly impressive.
The new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 now comes with a more powerful processor, faster graphics, enhanced Wi-Fi connectivity, and impressive improvements all around.
"The team has packed an incredible amount of technology and innovation into the new Fire HDX - an exclusive HDX display, a powerful quad-core processor, a 70% faster graphics engine, exceptional audio with Dolby Atmos, and the fastest Wi-Fi - and it's still startlingly light," Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos boasted in the press release. "Fire HDX combines best-in-class hardware with exclusive features and services from Fire OS 4 including Firefly, the Mayday button, Family Library, ASAP, and more."
While last year's Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 packed a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and 2GB of RAM, the new iteration now rocks a more powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor, which delivers a 70 percent faster graphics performance while still pumping roughly 12 hours of battery life, according to the company.
The Wi-Fi improvements Bezos mentioned in the press release refer to the speedier Wi-Fi 802.11ac standard, as opposed to the 802.11n found on the previous model. In addition to the aforementioned Dolby Atmos surround technology for superior audio, the new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 also comes with a new "Dynamic Light Control" mode that aims to make the pages of a book look more like a piece of paper for easier reading. The technology will achieve this by tweaking the light balance settings in different light conditions to make it easier on the eye.
All other features remain unchanged from the previous model, including the 8.9-inch display with a 2,560 x 1,600 pixel resolution which, according to Amazon, means 30 percent more pixels than the iPad's Retina display.
The new Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 will make its commercial debut in October, sporting a $379 price tag, but interested customers can already pre-order the tablet from Amazon's website at this link.
