New Kindle Fire

4re Nut · Jul 8, 2012

http://allthingsd.com/20120708/amazons-next-kindle-fire-will-ship-in-q3-with-improved-display/

...the company hopes to debut the next iteration of the Kindle Fire in the second half of this year; the current launch window is late in the third quarter. To do so, Amazon has been approaching developers to bring them up to speed on the new hardware.

Here are a few key changes in the device that weve learned about from talking to sources who have been briefed:

The next iteration of the Fire will be thinner and lighter than the original. It will also have a built-in camera and a much-improved display.

And, more importantly, developers familiar with the device have been instructed to build their apps for a display with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, which is a bit different than the 1024 x 600 display of the current Kindle Fire.

Not only will that apparently make it sharper and more vibrant, it will give it a different aspect ratio, as well. In other words, the display has an entirely new width-to-height ratio.

The really interesting thing here is that the screen shape is changing slightly: From an aspect ratio of 1.71 (tall and narrow in its standard Portrait mode) to an aspect ratio of 1.60,....
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Thinner & lighter form with a better screen...earth shattering news!

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