Amazon Fire
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The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon. Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was originally released in November of 2011, featuring
Kindle Fire (7", 1st gen, 2011) showing Wikimedia Commons main page
Kindle Fire showing components, back cover removed
The Kindle Fire in horizontal position displaying web page
The iPad (left) compared with the Kindle Fire (right)
Nexus 7 (2012)
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The first-generation Nexus 7 is a mini tablet computer co-developed by Google and Asus that runs the Android operating system. It is the first tablet in the Google Nexus series of Android consumer dev
Hugo Barra, Director of Product Management for Android, unveiled the Nexus 7 at Google I/O 2012 in San Francisco.
The rear of the Nexus 7 features a dimpled plastic surface with a grippy texture. The tablet's build quality was praised by critics.
The Nexus 7's battery visible with the back cover removed
Competing devices Kindle Fire (left) and iPad Mini (center), compared to a Nexus 7 (right)