Running 2.3??? What crap.. In that case it is definitely nothing but smoke and mirrors.. a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.
Why anyone would buy a tablet with the PHONE version of the OS on it is beyond me.... You can buy those for $150 or less all day long.
If this is true, Kindle is nothing but a bunch of smoke and mirrors.. it’ll sell well innitially, but quickly fall off a cliff. 7” form factor AND 2.3??? Wow, that’s going to wear thin really fast.
Not just the phone version. Google has pretty much admitted that 3.x is crap too, and in their opinion the first decent version is 4.
I don’t know or care what version of Linux is behind the curtain on my TiVo; it’s so heavily customized that even though it’s basically a Linux computer, no one buys it as one or uses it as one. I note that Amazon isn’t marketing the Kindle Fire as a full-fledged tablet, and they’ve designed a custom interface that puts media consumption front and center, left and right.
I think a lot of folks are going to be happy with the Kindle Fire, if they go into it with the right expectations. There are a lot of folks who don’t follow technology like we do, who don’t know Gingerbread from Honeycomb, who will buy the Kindle with a realistic assessment of what it can do, and who will love it for that. After a while, they may come up with things that the Fire can’t do, things they never particularly thought of or wanted to do before. And then they’ll be ready to get a full tablet and hand the Kindle down to the kids.