Amazon's debuts new souped-up tablet and brand new Paperwhite e-reader. SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 6, 2012— -- Amazon has set off a big Fire. The Kindle Fire HD, Amazon's new souped-up tablet, ...

On paper, the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 blows the iPad 3 out of the water. The Fire HD is thinner, lighter, and smaller than the iPad 3. The Fire HD has dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital ...

From the moment Apple shipped the first iPad back in 2010, pundits started wondering when someone else would ship a tablet that rivaled it for overall appeal. The initial wondering, logically enough, ...

Today, Amazon surprised mobile industry observers when it announced a $499 LTE-enabled version of its new 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD. Like the $299, Wi-Fi only version of the Fire HD, the LTE-enabled ...

So the much publicized Amazon event is behind us and we now have a clearer understanding of the hardware Amazon has lined up for the next one year or so. The device list—Kindle Fire HD 7 inch, Kindle ...

Of all the devices Amazon announced, none made as big a spash as the 8.9-inch Fire HD. This supersized enhanced e-Reader now rivals competitors such as the Asus Transformer Pad Infinity, the Acer ...

Amazon has just released the Fire HD 8 and this is one of the first tablets that will have the Alexa voice assistant in the upcoming OS 5.4 update. If you have last years Fire 8, this new model ...

Good news if you’re looking for a screen slightly bigger than your smartphone but smaller than your laptop: Amazon Fire tablets are on sale! The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet is what one reviewer calls an ...

Amazon entered the tablet market back in 2012 and, regular as clockwork, has updated models since then. In the regions where Amazon is strongest, the Fire tablet has a significant chunk of the market.

I’m sitting in an Amazon conference room in Seattle along with a couple of other tech journalists. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is telling us about the company’s goals with its new Kindle Fire ...