Articles tagged "Amazon"

Amazon held its big fall launch event which introduced a plethora of new devices across the Fire, Echo and Eero lineups. There are new Fire TV Stick 4K models, a new Fire TV soundbar, as well as new Echo Show and Echo Hub models. We also got a new...

Amazon Prime Day is still happening and there are some great tablet deals from the Fire range. We found the Fire 7, Fire HD 10 and Fire Max 11 on steep sales across Amazon US, UK and Germany. Amazon Fire 7 is the smallest and least expensive...

Amazon announced that it will hold its 48-hour Prime Day on July 11-12 this year. If you don't know what Prime Day is (really?) - it's Amazon's deal event with big savings on a bunch of items, exclusively for Prime members. The event first came to...

Today Amazon has unveiled its most powerful tablet ever, the Fire Max 11. As the name implies, this has an 11-inch touchscreen with 2000x1200 resolution. At the helm sits "a powerful octa-core processor" from MediaTek (MTK8188J), aided by 4GB...

Amazon Music Unlimited plans will be $1/£1 more expensive for users from February 21 as the latest price hike in the music streaming world. US users will now pay $10.99 per month for their individual (non-Prime) subscription while those in the UK...

This Thursday, Google officially launches support for Matter on Google Nest and Android devices. Matter is a new unified smart home platform that aids the interoperability between ecosystems and lets one platform borrow an incompatible device's...

In 2004 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos created a team to build an ebook reader – in 2007 the Kindle was born and it went on to dominate its market. Then in 2011 the Kindle Fire Android tablet arrived and while it couldn't quite achieve the same domination it...

The Amazon Photos app for Android has finally received a big redesign today, a full year after the iOS app first got the same treatment. Talk about discriminating between mobile platforms! Anyway, in the new app you can expect to be greeted with...

Huawei released a court notice about the infringement of its patent rights. The claim is against Amazon and e-ink display manufacturer Compal Electronics, as well as several of their subsidiaries. The claim is most likely to be about patents...

Amazon's October Prime Day deals are here. Mind you, this isn't the full-blown Black Friday, that's coming next month along with Cyber Monday. These are October 11 and 12 deals that are not bad. Starting with Google. The Pixel 6, while not...

Amazon today announced three new models of the Echo Dot, the standard Echo Dot, the Echo Dot with Clock, and Echo Dot Kids. The three models are basically identical for the most part. The standard Echo Dot now features a new custom full-range...

Amazon today announced the third generation Fire TV Cube, the company's flagship media player. The updated model features a new design, faster processing, and improved connectivity. The new Fire TV Cube has a new design with a cloth grille...

Amazon today announced the Kindle Scribe, the company's largest Kindle yet and for the first time with pen input for reading and writing on the go. The Kindle Scribe features a large 10.2-inch matte touchscreen Paperwhite display. The...

The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet lineup is now updated for 2022 featuring three new versions that all come with a thinner and lighter design, 30% faster processors and more storage. Tap to Alexa is another neat new feature that lets users interact with...

Two retail giants in India will be offering big discounts starting on September 23 (Friday next week) – Amazon is launching the Great Indian Festival, Flipkart will be busy with The Big Billion Days. They will be offering a wide range of products,...

Amazon announced its Kindle 2022 with a redesigned look, sharper display and USB-C charging. The latest entry-level Kindle gets much of the features found on the more expensive Paperwhite model such as a 300ppi front-lit E ink display that measures...

Amazon has begun rolling out the redesigned UI for its Prime Video app with the primary goal of making content finding easier for its users. And the first step in that direction is a simplified main navigation menu that's easily accessible, allowing...

Those of you who use a Kindle ebook reader but don’t buy books from Amazon know the hassle of converting from the widely-accepted EPUB format into something that the Kindle can actually read – typicall MOBI or AZW. While the company still hasn’t...

2020 was a banner year for tablets with record shipments in the fourth quarter. This was driven by the surge of people who work or study at home due to the pandemic. Now with the pandemic easing off, shipments are slowing down as well, according to...

According to a report by MIDIA Research, the music streaming market continues to grow with Spotify still in the lead with a significant market share of 31%. The data is somewhat old covering Q2 of last year, but the report was only recently made...