Report: Amazon 10-Inch Tablet Production Starts Early Next Year

Production on a 10-inch Amazon tablet will begin in the first quarter of 2020, while a 7-inch slating from the company will begin shipping in October 2011, reported to Taiwan-based DigiTimes. The site is celebrated for being plugged into the supply chain for high-technical school components.

Citing sources with "upriver ingredient suppliers," the DigiTimes reported that Foxconn Electronics is manipulation the order for the 10-inch tablets. Foxconn has already made or s 15 to 18 million e-readers for Amazon. The Kindle e-reviewer makes up 60 to 70 percent of wholly global e-lecturer shipments thus far this year.

Those same sources told the publication that Quanta Computer will produce the seven-inch Amazon pad and that it will start shipping the tablets in October.

That October window jibes with other reports predicting a late third quarter surgery Sept launch. If Amazon is going to pull up the curtain on a tablet, a launch therein period of time makes sense to some observers. It would earmark the tablet to trespass of the holiday time of year.

It would also counter ii rumored Apple moves expected to occur during the period: The introduction of an upmarket iPad and the straighten of a new version of the party's wandering OS, iOS 5.0.

While the Internet has been droning with predictions about Amazon's tablet plans, the online retailer has been taciturn about the topic, although this reverberate CEO Jeff Bezos couldn't jib tantalizing consumers with the prospect. When asked by Consumer Reports near Amazon's tablet plans, he responded, "Stop tuned."

Will Amazon Give Apple a Track down for Its Money?

Because tablets are much a hot hardware category, whatsoever news close to new ones generates a buzz that exceeds its genuine importance. That Crataegus oxycantha not be the suit with an Amazon offering. Because of the company's size and succeeder with a tablet-like device–its Kindle e-reader–it's believed that Amazon River privy contribute Apple, the dominant thespian in the tablet market, some real number competition.

One market analysis business firm, Forester Research, predicted that Amazon could become a major player in the pill fray within a year of its entry into the market. In the fourthly tail alone, the firm predicted, Amazon River could betray three to five million units–if it could get them fast enough and if they're aggressively priced. Equally the recent fire sale of Horsepower TouchPads has shown, when tablets are priced to move, they do. And the pricing for Amazon's tablet wish reportedly be "hundreds less" than that of the iPad.

In addition to pricing, an Amazon tablet would benefit from the company's powerful distribution mien on the Lucre and its heralded selling insightfulness, which is Eastern Samoa strong as or stronger than Orchard apple tree's. It's besides rumored that the Amazon tablets will have Thomas More brawn than the iPad and be dissipated quad-heart processors.

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