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We should've famous this was coming. The Kindle haw hit prefabricated it to the receipts first, but pretty presently Barnes and Noble had the Nook, with its mini-color contact screen. Then came the iPad and Nook Color, and today more grouping are datum on color contact screens, and expecting games and apps and things same that.

Now the rumors are in, and it sounds same Amazon is intellection to enter the paper market "with a bang." So what does it look same the forthcoming Kindle paper module be like?

Android under the hood

This one's a gimme, for individual reasons.

First, the Android operative grouping is unstoppered source, which essentially means anyone crapper take it and do what they poverty with it. Including, feature use it to intend a head move in making a tablet. (Want to look at the planning code? Knock yourself out.) The paper edition of Android isn't open-source yet, but that hasn't obstructed Barnes and Noble, which stretched the smartphone edition of Android to fit on the Nook Color -- not that you'd discern it after every the streamlining that B&N did.

Second, and this is the big one, Amazon's already got a lot endowed in Android. And I don't meet mean its Amazon.com and Amazon MP3 apps in the Android Market. See, there's an Amazon Appstore for Android, which actually competes with the Android Market. And the new Amazon Cloud Drive service lets you intend to the MP3s you acquire from Amazon.com from anywhere -- like, say, your Android smartphone, from the app that lets you do that.

Google plays hardball with its competitors, and crapper block them from instalment authorised Google apps (which aren't open-source) on their devices. I'm sporting Amazon feels it doesn't need them, especially with its possess app store and penalization store.

"Medium" and "Large" sizes

Boy Genius Report supposedly got a counsel that says Amazon's working on dual-core and quad-core tablets, cipher named "Coyote" and "Hollywood." Coyote's supposedly a Tegra 2 figure -- that's Android Enthusiast intercommunicate for "really powerful." Hollywood's supposedly going to use the upcoming Kal-El platform, and if the fact that it's named after Superman doesn't counsel you off, BGR reports that it haw be fivesome nowadays more coercive than Coyote's processor.

Price and promulgation date

As with every of the rest of this, it's still up in the expose and null but rumor. But PCMag's Tim Bajarin says a advisor told him that Coyote (probably not the name it'll delude under) module be a 7-inch paper that'll outlay $349, patch tone module be a 10-inch paper that costs $449. Both module supposedly be available "before 2011 ends."

These prices could meet be wishful thinking, but Barnes and Noble did manage to delude a 7-inch paper for $249. Maybe Amazon's making these tablets minimalist, same the Nook Color? And the promulgation fellow seems likely, as it gives Amazon plenty of time to educate for the pass season -- and hopefully, for them, to upstage some Nook that Barnes and Noble comes discover with next.

Jared Spurbeck is an open-source code enthusiast, who uses an Android sound and an Ubuntu laptop PC. He has been writing about technology and electronics since 2008.

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