Amazon's new color touch screen Kindle Fire and several other new versions

[Danny Tanner]

Wife is making it known she wants a eReader for Christmas, so what is an eink screen and is it something she needs?

Go to Target or Best Buy and check out some eReaders with eInk screens. It basically looks like pages of a book underneath a sheet of glass.

 

[Vamoose]

As much as I like the idea and the price of the Fire I like the idea of the new non-keyboard $79 as well.

 

[chauhoang48]

Me too, I think the price is cheaper. I want to buy one for my son.

I love my wife's Kindle and I'd love to have one, I'd also love to have a tablet. The Kindle Fire case sounded like the perfect product until they announced it's WiFi only. For $200, it's not a bad price at all, but I'd be willing to pay $250 for a 3G or 4G version as well as for a monthly data plan. The older 3G Kindles get free 3G through AT&T, so it's not like Amazon doesn't have their foot in the door with a service carrier.

It's been announced already that they'll be bringing out a Kindle Fire covers 10" and hopefully this one will have 3G (or above). The same company that made BlackBerry's PlayBook made this and they didn't release a 3G model until after the WiFi-only version was in customer's hands, so maybe we can expect the same thing to happen here.