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Some of the reviews you’ll see for the new Amazon Kindle Fire are longer than ‘War And Peace’ and cover all the minute details like size – “it fits in my hand” – and speed – “it was pretty fast.” Rather than bore you with another ‘expertly detailed analysis’, let’s just cut right to the chase.

The Kindle Fire has 8Gb of storage which is really more like 6.5Gb after you allow for the OS. At that capacity the Fire can potential store 8 downloaded movies, 80 apps, 800 songs, or 6,000 books. While it might seem highly improbable that you’d ever reach that 6,000 book mark, the limit of 8 movies might be a little iffy – especially if you’re a huge movie lover. Don’t worry, though. Because you also get an additional 5 GB of storage in the Amazon Cloud Drive. If you’ve ever used Amazon’s Cloud then you’ll know this is a big plus. You can access it anywhere, anytime, with any device.

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Last month HP announced a massive price drop on their HP Touchpad tablet. This created madness that created a Black Friday-like atmosphere around retailers who had the item in stock. One day, nobody wanted one. The next, everyone was trying to nab one. The lucky ones nabbed the 16 GB model for just $99.99. Quite the drastic drop from its original $499.99 retail value.

The reason why HP canned the HP Touchpad was due to low sales. These low sales were because this tablet should have never been priced at $499.99. That’s what the Apple iPad 2 and the Samsung Galaxy cost. Those came with iOS and Android, respectively. The HP Touchpad had the app-less webOS. What the frenzied sales showed was, if anything, that HP didn’t create an inferior product, it just priced it wrong.

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