The Kindle fire has finally been launched and the question is will this kill the sales of chines tablets such as the BrillianTab and the Ingenium? Well the first thing to note is that the Kindle Fire is not due to be released in the UK until next year. This means there’s no kindle fire for the Christmas market this year.
Certainly the Amazon Kindle Fire is looking very good value although people are now beginning to raise eyebrows and concerns over the privacy aspect of the Kindle Soft web browser. Basically every page you visit on the web will be done going through Amazon’s own databanks and they will know exactly where you’ve been and what you’ve done on the web. And you thought Phorm was bad?
Will Kindle Fire affect cheap Chinese import sales?
But this article is really just about the hardware aspects of Kindle Fire. Will fire blow a hole in the sales of cheap tablet pcs such as the BrillianTab and Ingenium?
Our best selling budget tablet pc is the BrillianTab so we’ll take a look and compare the Kindle fire specifications with that of the BrillianTab.
Compare Kindle Fire with BrillianTab.
Price: The prices look to be about the same. The BrillianTab comes in at around £150 with delivery etc pretty much the same as the Kindle Fire expected in at around £148.00.
Screen: They both sport a multi touch colour screen. The biggest difference is that the resolution of the Kindle fire comes in at 1024 pixels by 600 pixels while the BrillianTab has a resolution of 800px by 480px.
Processor: There no information on the power on the Kindle Fire processor other than it’s dual core. Rumour is that it is going to have a clock speed of 1GHz. The BrillianTab comes with a clock speed of 1.2GHz.
Memory: There no official release of the amount of RAM memory that will be available on the Kindle Fire while the BrillianTab comes complete with 512MB of RAM. Internal storage of the Kindle Fire is 8GB while the BrillianTab comes in at half that with just 4GB. External storage through SD card is not available on the Kindle Fire but the BrillianTab has a micro SD card slot that can take up to 32GB cards.
USB ports: The Kindle Fire sports a USB micro connector while the BrillianTab has both a micro USB and normal USB connectors.
Connectivity: Both units use wifi as access to the internet.
TV connection: Kindle fire lacks a HDMI connection to allow direct connection to a TV while the BrilianTab has a HDMI connection.
Camera: The Kindle Fire has no camera while the BrillianTab has a forward facing camera to allow for video conferencing.
Mic: Kindle Fire has no internal microphone while the BrillianTab does.
Operating system: Both units run the Android 2.3 OS while the Fire system has been heavily modified by Amazon the BrillianTab is as it comes.
The Chinese import tablet PCs still offer best value for money.
So generally while the Amazon Kindle Fire has a better screen resolution there’s little else that beats the BrillianTab. It still worth buying a cheap Chinese import if you are looking for an affordable tablet PC. You’ll still get more bang for the money even if Amazon has produced a great value tablet in the Kindle Fire.
