- According to reports, Amazon is working on a tablet that runs Android instead of Fire Os
- This could cost much more than the current models of the Fire Tablet, to about $ 400
- It could be the first of many android tablets
It is possible that Amazon’s fire tablets do not receive as much attention as iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs, but they are quite successful products, and a rumored change could make them even more popular.
According to PakGazette, citing “six people familiar with the matter,” Amazon plans to launch a new tablet next year, but this will apparently will be fed by Android instead of the Fire Operating Operating System used by all Amazon’s current tablets.
Fire os is based on Android, but is very personalized and dismissed to be almost unidentifiable as an Android operating system; It is even based on a completely separate application store.
Therefore, going to a less altered version of Android would be a great change, with the greatest advantage for buyers that probably can access the Google Play store, which means a broader availability of applications and more certainty that the applications they have on their phone would also be available for their technological board.
A more expensive perspective
In addition to a change in the operating system, this next fire table could also be a more premium device, and the report indicates that it can cost around $ 400 (approximately 300 / au $ 620). That would do that almost double expensive that the Amazon Fire Max 11, which is the upper model in the current Amazon team.
$ 400 is still a fairly low price compared to some tablets, but would put the slate more in line with the tastes of the ipad 11 inches (2025), so it could have a serious competition.
Even so, that is not necessarily a bad thing, since presumably this price increase would come with a better hardware, which should help this tablet attract an audience that would never have considered a Amazon tablet before.
And the PakGazette report suggests that this could be the first of many Android tablets, some of which can continue appealing to entry level buyers. So I hope there is soon something for everyone, and without the limitations of Fire Os.
Even so, the sources warn that there is the possibility that this Android tablet project, which is said to have a name in Kittyhawk code, could still be delayed or canceled by “financial concerns or others”, so for now we can only expect this new tablet to launch.
