Rumor Summary: The 2012 Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet Launches Q3
We’ve complied a summary of the most plausible rumors and information leaks about the specs, features and release details of the 2012 Amazon Kindle Fire. Another name that gets tossed around is the Kindle Ice, but the details that get tossed around seem to be the same in most cases.
Whether the official name is “Fire” or “Ice”, the final product will be an eternal entrance into the company’s web site and digital services. Amazon’s Kindle family of electronic book readers and media tablets became astonishingly successful automobiles of distribution for the company’s digitised media and physical-goods stores. As a consequence, it is no surprise to hear Amazon plans to release a rather more strong version of the Kindle Fire in 2012.
The subsequent version should feature an 8.9-inch or 9-inch display, according to a few sources like BGR and Digitmes. Of course, Digitimes doesn’t have the best reputation as the company makes some ridiculous claims, but it has published some engaging and luscious bits of news thanks to its unique relationship with Chinese manufacturers.
Another large rumor that gets tossed around is that the next version of the Kindle tablet will ship with a quad-core processor. NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor was the chipset tossed around earlier in the year, so we thought it’d be a natural fit. But both Samsung and Qualcomm have next-gen, quad-core processors on the market, so it’s much harder to nail down the CPU brand nowadays.
Of course, the hot-selling tablets these days feature quad-core chips, so Amazon wishes to be sure those additional cores ship with the tablet. The first Kindle Fire ships with a dual-core processor, so that is one more reason we think an “upgraded” Kindle Fire would include a quad-core chip. Nov was the launch month for the 2011 Kindle Fire, so we'd love to believe the next one would launch round the same time.
F.D. Mendez is the editor of Release Dates, a website and subscription service that notifies you only about the soon-to-be-released devices, video games and apps you want.