ZDNet's David Gewirtz - ' How to decide: should you buy an iPad mini, a Kindle Fire HD (UK: here), or a Nexus 7?' (Warning: this blog tends often to go into mindnumbing detail but I hope you find something here not found when trying to decide by reading other sources, that is, if you've stayed here after seeing the length of this.)

Here are a few points from several during the last month. In the meantime, some are still trying to decide on a tablet for the Holidays and I haven't added more recent reviews from tech sites since the early ones over a month ago, although I was logging them. Holidays and Decisions - Tablets everywhere So, what else might Amazon be up to? That's right (image at right) - Amazon Wine! Here are links to several other news articles on how the new lockers will work and where they're available currently. WSJ's Greg Bensinger had a good article on the ones available as of August 2012. An early report on the lockers here was on September 12, 2011. Kindles, a year ago were said to be only 5-7% of Amazon's business and so they don't have to report numbers and can keep the competition guessing and a bit off balance.Īmazon is finally offering, InternetRetailer reports, more of its ' Lockers' for those who can't safely receive shipments at home because they're not there, etc. It at least reflects a lot of interest.Īmazon almost never offers numbers when it comes to Kindles however, a company like Apple, with tablets and other hardware a major portion of its business, numbers are required by the SEC.

It's been felt that those who interact rather than just lurk dicussions are about 1 per 1,000. 2) and Kerri Elders thinks that when you consider how few people take the time to respond rather than just read, it may well indicate the popularity of the device. Here's the appstore for Japan.Īmazon also announced that sales of its Kindles during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend was twice what it was for that time period last year (no numbers).Ī HINT of the popularity can be seen in the most popular customer review at the product page, which so far has 12,653 people findng it helpful, of 12,853 taking time to 'vote.' In the meantime, there are 424 posts in questions and answers connected with TL's obviously engaging review.Įric DiPier thought it 'incredible' that the review received almost 8,000 votes in less than 2 months (by Nov. Found two that work VERY well and another that is said to, after the latest Kindle Fire HD software update (v7.2.1), and which is the least expensive but has Apple control-keys predominant and I prefer more Android-key functions at the fingertips.Īmazon's appstore opens in Japan, it was announced Wednesday, ahead of Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD shipments there. I've been trying out wireless bluetooth keyboards on the 7' and 8.9' Kindle Fire HD's and will report on this in a day or two.

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