Kindle with Android: Building The Perfect Kindle Tablet
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Even though Amazon has still not announced any plans to bring a tablet to the market, the company has already laid the groundwork to start competing with Apple and other tablet markets. Considering that Amazon has just launched an Android Appstore, it is not hard to guess which operating system will run on Amazon’s Kindle tablet just in case the company decides to go in that direction.
As discussed on Gizmodo, Amazon has had the idea to introduce a multitouch color device to the market for quite some time. Amazon Kindle e-readers are great for reading e-books and listening to audio-books. But they can’t compete as tablets against iPads and Xooms of this world. Here are some of the features we expect to see in Amazon’s rumored tablet:
- screen: Amazon already has 6 inch and 9.7 inch e-readers on the market. The company can always choose one or both of those sizes for its upcoming tablet products. But there is a good chance it will settle for something in between. A 7″ or 8.9″ screen Kindle slate would not surprise anyone.
- software: Amazon’s Kindle tablet will most likely run Android. We would not put it past Amazon to add its own UI on the top of what Android has to offer to make the Kindle experience more unique for its customers.
- design: Amazon Kindles may not be perfect devices but they are extremely slim and portable. We expect Amazon’s tablet to offer a similar experience.
- price: an aggressive pricing strategy is required if Amazon wants to compete effectively against the iPads and Xooms of this world. Amazon does not need to get into a price war with Apple, Samsung, or Motorola.
- service integration: there is a good chance the rumored Kindle tablet will take advantage of all the services that Amazon is offering on its website. That includes its video on-demand service, Kindle platform, and much more.
Amazon may or may not introduce a new tablet to the market. But we do not expect it to stop making new e-readers. E-readers are still quite popular and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. There is no reason Amazon can’t sell an e-reader and a tablet (unless it opts for a color e-paper reader which is a whole other story).
If you were the leader of Amazon tablet’s design team, how would you put together the perfect Kindle tablet? What features would you include?
