Color Kindle Tablet Release Date
People have been waiting for a color Kindle for a while now. Once Barnes & Noble brought us the Nook Color it seemed only a matter of time before Amazon introduced some kind of tablet Kindle to compete.
If anything it has been a real surprise just how long Amazon have waited to introduce such a device.
But, it seems like the wait maybe nearly over, since a color Kindle release date looks imminent. If the history of Kindles is anything to go by we should hear some definite news by the middle of July, with release expected by the end of the summer 2011. The Kindle 3 was announced mid July, and started shipping on 27th August so something similar would be sensible.
After all a late summer / early fall release date would put the color Kindle firmly onto just about everyone’s holiday shopping lists, which obviously would be something Jeff Bezos would be pretty keen on!
We will of course keep you posted, but expect the small Kindle tablet (codenamed the Amazon Coyote) to give you a lot more bang for your buck than the color Nook reader though. We expect the new tablet to have far more functionality, and to really perform as a compact tablet PC, rather than merely a back-lit ebook reader.
Update - On 28th Sept Amazon are holding a rare press conference in New York. This is something previously only done to announce big new changes, such as the release of new ebook reader hardware. So could this be the day we finally find out the Amazon tablet release date.
