MG Siegler has the first look at an Amazon tablet, albiet he cannot provide pictures. Details within the article include:
- A form factor similar to the BlackBerry Playbook
- 7” with a capacitive touch screen in full color
- That means no e-ink technology
- No camera
- Runs a flavor of Android (big move)
- No physical buttons on the device
- Initially wi-fi only, but Amazon is reportedly working with carriers to make it 3G
- 6 GB or so of internal storage
- $250 dollars or “half the iPad price”
- Potentially release is imminent, before the holiday buying season
As John Gruber has said and I have corroborated as well here, this tablet is possibly the only potential iPad contender because of the Ecosystem that Amazon has built over the years.