For just under $ 100, you can pick up one of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets — the HD 6. Soon, however, you'll be able to snag two Fire tablets for the same amount of cash.
Amazon has been looking for ways to re-invigorate tablet sales of late, and one of the ways they're rumored to be doing that is by delivering a $ 50 Kindle Fire. You might assume that Amazon had to make some sacrifices to get the price down that far, and you'd be right. A set of hardware specs for the new tablet have appeared in a benchmark database and they show exactly how Amazon knocked $ 49 off the price of entry to the Kindle Fire party.
Two components manufacturers typically focus on when they're trying to aggressively cut costs on a tablet or phone are the display and the processor. While the $ 99 Fire HD 6 (that's it pictured above) comes with a 6-inch 1280 x 800 touchscreen, the new, cheaper Fire will instead sport a 1024 x 600 panel. They've also opted for a quad-core MediaTek 1.3GHz processor, down from 1.5GHz in the Fire HD 6.
The new Fire tablet also only comes with one gig of RAM, but it does match the Fire HD 6 in one column on the spec sheet: internal storage. The new Fire tablet appears to have 8GB of NAND, too. It'll also feature 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, and it's listed as running Android 5.1 — which should mean that it will debut with Fire OS 5 on board.
All in all, it looks like a decent enough tablet when you consider the price tag. It won't perform like its more expensive Fire siblings, but for $ 50 no one should be too critical on that front.
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