What are your thoughts on the new Amazon Kindle Fire?

[smbu2000]

spurgeonryan said:

smbu2000 said:

It doesn't really seem to be trying to compete with the Ipad. The Fire looks more like it's going up against the Barnes and Noble $249 Nook Color.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/#logo

Just like the standard Kindle is up against the B&N Nook.

Is the nook color just an ereader or a tablet as well?

The nook color is more like a tablet instead of just an e-reader, like the fire. The regular Nook(with e-ink) is just an e-reader, like the regular Kindle (with e-ink) is just an e-reader.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/09/29/kindle-fire-vs-nook-color/

They both have 8GB of memory, but it would've been nice if Amazon had put a card slot on the device. It has cloud streaming, but the nook color has a micro sd slot so storage is expandable up to 40GB (8gb internal + 32gb micro sd card).

The nook color released Nov. 2010, so there are many rumors of a nook color 2 to be released sometime in the near future. If I was looking for an Android tablet, I'd definitely wait until the nook color 2 was released and compare that with the fire to see which one is better.