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Amazon schedules press conference for September 6th

by Alistair Lowe on 24 August 2012, 11:00

Tags: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)

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It appears that September is to be the month of announcements, OK, not quite September though Samsung has pencilled itself in for August the 29th, where the firm is expected to reveal the GALAXY Note II. Nokia is very likely to be revealing its latest PureView and Windows Phone 8 Lumias on the morning of September 5th, with Motorola following-up shortly thereafter in the later half of the day. To top matters off, Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 5 on September 12th.

If this schedule wasn't crowded enough for you, Amazon has just placed its name down for September 6th, with sources claiming that this will be a big announcement. Given that the event will be held in California, we suspect the usual eight hours time lag and so proceedings should begin at 6:30pm BST.

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We've speculated for quite some time that both new Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets should be heading our way soon. Will colour e-readers finally land? Could we see the integration of a front-lit screen? How will the Kindle Fire be priced in light of the GALAXY Nexus 7? All will be revealed in under two weeks.

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Posted by cheesemp - Fri 24 Aug 2012 11:22
Ooo - Exciting! Looking forward to the competition and what it brings! Just hoping for a decent spec 10" (Android?) tablet at £250 to fall out the bottom..
Posted by Brewster0101 - Fri 24 Aug 2012 11:38
I reckon they are announcing the sale of a new hamster cage!
Posted by crossy - Fri 24 Aug 2012 11:39
cheesemp
Ooo - Exciting! Looking forward to the competition and what it brings! Just hoping for a decent spec 10" (Android?) tablet at £250 to fall out the bottom..
I don't want any device that's fallen out of someone's bottom! :puke:

I'll be tempering my interest because if there's anything exciting announced then when the ‘eck are us non-US folks going to see it? Oh, and Amazon UK, don’t bother with the Kindle Fire - everyone agrees that the Nexus7, (which is readily available), kicks it into the weeds.

But a colour (sorry “color”) eInk Kindle would be VERY interesting to me - especially if it was due to hit the UK around Christmas time. ;)

Hilarious to see that the forums (not Hexus of course) reckon that an Amazon Phone is going to be announced.
Posted by cheesemp - Fri 24 Aug 2012 12:28
crossy
I don't want any device that's fallen out of someone's bottom! :puke:

I'll be tempering my interest because if there's anything exciting announced then when the ‘eck are us non-US folks going to see it? Oh, and Amazon UK, don’t bother with the Kindle Fire - everyone agrees that the Nexus7, (which is readily available), kicks it into the weeds.

But a colour (sorry “color”) eInk Kindle would be VERY interesting to me - especially if it was due to hit the UK around Christmas time. ;)

Hilarious to see that the forums (not Hexus of course) reckon that an Amazon Phone is going to be announced.

I didn't expect you to read that quite so literally crossy - I'm just expecting companies to keep battling out for cheapest price/best features and something very cheap and exciting to be available in 6 months!

Personally I think it'll just be the kindle fire 2 thats launched. Also didn't amazon start flogging the kindle 2 over here, skipping the original kindle entirely? I think that might, just might happen with a fire 2 so hopefully we'll see it soon?