Amazon Kindle Fire: A Hot Contender

At a mere $199, the Amazon Kindle Fire is quite a competitor when it comes to the mobile tablet industry.

Packing a dual-core 1GHz processor, 7" multi-touch LCD, and 8GB on-board storage, the Kindle Fire is a capable, and powerful device.

At half of the price of the Apple iPad and wonders less than popular tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tablet and the Motorola XOOM, the Fire is priced at a point that could be considered hard to resist my many.

Luckily, the Kindle Fire houses all of the features needed to stay alive in today's markets. Mobile web browsing can be done with Amazon Silk, a new web browsing program, as well as movies, applications, and music can all be purchased from Amazon's personal vendors. You can also stream music and videos and sync with unlimited storage with the cloud services provided with Amazon. Creating and editing documents and checking email can also be achieved.

It's a bit to early to decide if the Kindle Fire is going to be a hit-or-miss for Amazon, but with a device like this at a price in which it will sell for, I think Amazon has another hit on their hands.

The Kindle Fire is set to be available on November 15, 2011, and you can pre-order the tablet here.