Amazon Kindle Fire Release Date

Yes, the new Amazon Kindle Fire release date is coming soon, very soon!  To be exact, the official Kindle Fire launch date will occur on November 15, 2011.  However, you can pre-order Kindle fire today over at Amazon!

If you're not overly familiar with the Kindle Fire, it's the first Amazon Android Tablet.  It's considered to be in the Kindle family (as clearly given away by its name), but it's not the original Amazon Kindle eBook reader, nor is it built with the same premise in mind in terms of user experience.  It's an actual tablet PC, like the iPad .... well, sort of!

Going head to head and spec for spec, the new Amazon Kindle Fire is not going to overshadow the iPad.  However, in terms of price, the Kindle Fire will intice and intrigue many consumers.  Yes, there are iPads for sale at great prices now, since we're two generations down the road and waiting (some of us anxiously) for the next generation release, but those prices are nearly double that which you're going to be able to buy a Kindle Fire.  In fact, the Kindle Fire is coming to the market at only $199.  Check it out!

In short, if you want one of the best Android Tablets, but don't want to pay over $500 for a device that you don't necessarily have to have, the Kindle Fire is going to be very attractive.  Additionally, the Kindle Fire will allow users to take advantage of an impressive and growing suite of Amazon services - from free cloud storage, to accessing apps at the Amazon Appstore, to downloading thousands of books, to streaming movies and popular TV shows, to downloading and playing games, to document reading capabilities, and full color browsing, the price point on the Kindle Fire is worth giving this device a second look.

If you haven't seen the Amazon Kindle Fire in action yet, check out this hands on video! You'll get a good feel for the Kindle Fire specs and a nice overview of what it can do until the actual Amazon Kindle Fire release date. Then, you can actually get your hands on one to try it yourself!

iPhone 5 Release Date Delayed?

Yes, as you can imagine, the iPhone 5 rumors are beginning to fly fast and furious and the most recent reports are indicating that there may be some hiccups with the new iPhone 5 release date.

According to 9to5 Mac, it appears that the iPhone 4S (dubbed to be a lower-end iPhone, nearly identical in form to the existing iPhone 4) is moving along nicely through production and should launch in early October (widely expected to be October 7, 2011) and there will be plenty of supply for consumers to get their hands on one.

However, there's a different tune with the new iPhone 5 release date and it appears that this higher-end, newly designed, iPhone 5 is facing potential production delays.

It appears that the tear-drop shaped iPhone 5 with larger screen and thinner, rounder body is seeing continued design and production delays, at least on one assembly line (Apple has multiple production sources – Pegatron, Foxconn, etc). We therefore think that iPhone 5 will be delayed slightly at the very least and may see shortages all the way into 2012. - Source 9to5 Mac

With that said, and as usual, stay tuned as more of this story will certainly unfold since we're getting awfully close to the new iPhone release date - whatever it turns out to be!

New Sprint iPhone 2011 Release Date

The latest rumors are becoming even clearer in regards to when we will see the new Sprint iPhone 2011 release date and the timing may be sooner than you expected!

Many consumers and tech enthusiast had been wondering, "will Sprint get the iPhone"?  The simple answer is, "yes", and that point was made quite clearly in this recent Sprint iPhone announcment (via Sprint Nextel Corp. press briefing).

However, if you still had any doubts (which by this point you shouldn't!), than this latest bit of news should put any further questions to rest.

Over the weekend, an inside source provided BGR with a leaked internal document clearly indicating that Best Buy is preparing to begin preorders for the new Sprint iPhone 5 in the first week of October.  This report would go hand in hand with the most recent leaks indicating that the actual iPhone 5 launch will occur on October 7, 2011 or October 14, 2011.  However, as these rumors typically go, their inside source claimed that, despite the leaked internal Best Buy memo, it's very possible that preorders for the new Sprint iPhone 2011 could begin as early as this week!

At first, this timing seemed to be a little suspect, but Deutsche Telekom made it very clear with their announcment this morning that the new iPhone 5 release date is imminent:

Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) will allow customers to reserve the next generation of Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPhone as of today in anticipation of supply bottlenecks for the device, spokesman Alexander von Schmettow said by phone. The operator will hand out coupons to people who expressly request the successor model to the iPhone 4, without providing the name or release details of the device, he said.

Coming as no surprise, September is getting started off with a bang and should continue to provide some excitment surrounding the next generation iPhone!