Kindle Fire Takes 54% of Android Tablet Market [STUDY]

Amazon’s Kindle Fire has taken 54.4% of the Android tablet market, leaving the number two in the category — Samsung Galaxy Tab — in the dust, according to comScore.

The Kindle Fire, introduced in November, nearly doubled its share over the last two months, comScore reports. Meanwhile, Galaxy Tab, which had a 23.8% share in December, is now down to 15.4%.

Motorola Xoom, the number three in the category, commanded 11.8% of the market in December and has now dropped to 7%, according to the report.

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Amazon Sells 1 Million Kindle Products Each Week

[ via Mashable ] 16 Dec

Amazon shoppers have purchased more than 1 million Kindle devices for the third week in a row, the company announced this week.

Kindle line has been wildly successful for Amazon, and its Kindle Fire tablet — which debuted just 11 weeks ago — is the company’s bestselling item ever. Other popular devices in the line include the Kindle Touch 3G ( $149), the Kindle ($79) and Kindle Touch ($99).

Although the Kindle Fire has been selling at unprecedented levels, the tablet has also been met with criticism about its less-than-stellar performance. In fact, the company recently confirmed with Mashable that it is planning a major software update to help improve the user experience.

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Kindle Fire popularity on the rise

Full Story: Chip Hazard  / Wahaab JB 21 Nov

According to new data from ChangeWave Research, Amazon’s revently released Kindle Fire is the second most popular tablet among people. The first most popular tab is Apple’s iPad.

A November survey of 3,043 people show that Apple’s iPad has finally encountered after a long time some competition with the Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The survey shows that 22% of the people planned on picking up the new Amazon’s tablet Kindle Fire and the majority of the people (65%) wanted to pick up iPad, reports Chip Hazard.

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First 15 Apps for Your Kindle Fire

Full Story: Business Insider 15 Nov

Welcome to the world of Kindle Fire. Now that you have it, do you know which are the first 15 MUST Apps for your new gadget? If not Business Insider steps forward to help you out.

Do you know that Hulu Plus is making its big debut on the Kindle Fire along with several other premium apps? Then you may have also known that Netflix has already surprised many by releasing a fancy new update for the Kindle Fire and Android tablets in time for launch day. Or that the Flight Control is one of the most popular mobile games around - and is one of the first apps we downloaded to our Kindle Fire.

Well besides the above mentioned, there are 12 more. Read full story for details on all of these.

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5 million shipments of Amazon Kindle Fire being claimed

Full Story: Electronista 10 November 2011

Electronista reports: Amazon's claims of ordering "millions more" Kindle Fire units may have been borne out by a leak Wednesday. Having already bumped its original order from 3.5 million to four million, Amazon was said by Digitimes' purported supply chain sources to be boosting production to "more than five million."

Amazon expected demand to keep increasing after the end of 2011, leading it to ask for more to keep up its supply.

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