Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition announced; Shovel Knight and Disney’s Ducktales

The company’s holiday line-up includes a more durable 8-inch Fire HD tablet with faster processing speeds than last year’s model that will sell at prices beginning at $150.

The new Fire tablet isn’t going to win any awards, but it does try to do good by some standards.

Although this is a low-price gadget it includes Mayday, the brilliant Amazon live help service which can sort your problems with working the tablet. The super affordable slate will be powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT8127 Cortex-A7 processor paired with a Mali 450 GPU for graphics and 1GB of RAM.

Also! The tablets are built with Dolby stereo speakers for immersive sound. Because Amazon’s tablets ship out with the company’s own Fire OS (a forked version of Android) that doesn’t even allow access to Google Play.

FreeTime is actually one of the bigger selling points for parents, especially if they’re looking to compare the Fire tablets with their more generic Android cousins. With 8GB of expandable storage – via the microSD card slot up to 128GB – Amazon have improved on the hardware here quite a bit. With the new codec, users should experience fewer “buffering” moments when the box is loading a video.

Apparently, Amazon has been listening to feedback and decided that it would implement at least part of the requested features.

Amazon failed to capture the mobile market and, according to previous reports, the company has ditched future plans to release more smartphones under its brand. You can take pictures with the 2MP rear camera and selfies with the VGA front-facing one.

It also means Amazon’s Fire TV is the first 4K Ultra HD streaming set-top box in the UK.

The Amazon Fire TV Gaming Edition is now available for pre-order for $139.99 and will begin shipping on October 5. It’s available in four color options: black, magenta, blue, and tangerine. The Analysts at RBC Capital raises the price target from $650 per share to $705 per share. A white version will be offered shortly however. The most eye-catching is the Fire which is a seven-inch tablet that costs just £49.99.

The online firm has just announced the launch of its brand-new budget tablet and if you buy five you get one free.

All-day battery life – Delivers up to 7 hours of reading, browsing the web, listening to music, and watching video.

How can any company compete with iPad when it comes to being the preferred tablet for children, thanks to the App Store’s large selection of educational apps and age-appropriate games? Now it’s introducing new 7-inch and 10.1-inch tablets and, also, says last year’s 8.9-inch Fire HDX tablet is sticking around (albeit with an update to Fire OS 5.0). Indeed, the old “let’s sell them a cheap product and make money on the back-end” is Amazon’s go-to move.