Not sure if many folks yet have caught wind of this but Amazon has permanently lowered the price on all the models of their Kindle HD 8.9" tablet.
I believe as of March 13, 2013 or there abouts.
I was lucky to visit Amazon.com and saw the price lowered for my Kindle HD 8.9" WiFi 32GB model which I bought from local Best Buy store with 30 day low price guarantee! I was just about at the 29 day mark and got my lowered price match refund.
So heads up for all the Kindle HD 8.9" tablet owners who bought it and are still within the 30 days low price guarantee! I saved $70 on my purchase because of this lowered price.
The lowered price is only for the Kindle HD 8.9" models and not for the 7" models.
Not sure if this info was ever posted anywhere in these XDA forums. I did not see any mention of it. So I posted this info here.
Also, on March 13, 2013 I've received an email from Amazon announcing the KFHD 8.9 available for sale in Spain!
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Are good news to the few that have an USA 8.9 here in Europe, as soon they could localise the tablets in their countries with only one update.
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The Amazon Kindle Fire was my first tablet and a great one as well. Thanks to awesome developers such as JackpotClavin, HashCode, Lithium, and everyone else the Kindle Fire is a great choice for budget and size conscience individuals.
Anyway, I just purchased a 4G LTE Motorola Xoom 32 GB on Ebay for $200 and sold my Kindle Fire for $150. I recently realized that the Xoom was a Google Experience Device and is going to be updated to Jelly Bean by Google!
Once again thanks everyone for making the Kindle Fire such a great device!
that thing is, heavy lol. I had one, a looooong time ago. briefly. enjoy it
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That's an excellent upgrade! I'm surprised you could sell your Fire for $150
jji7skyline said:
That's an excellent upgrade! I'm surprised you could sell your Fire for $150
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haha yeah. I put up my kindle fire on ebay with a good description an $89.99 starting bid price and a $150.00 buy it now option and it was sold within 12 hours.
im really excited for the xoom since there will be official jelly bean for it
jji7skyline said:
That's an excellent upgrade! I'm surprised you could sell your Fire for $150
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They sell easily for 150.
veeman said:
They sell easily for 150.
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That's a surprise, considering they sell new for $199 in the USA. I got them from an Australian importer for $261 including case and adaptor.
Even with the next generation kindle tablets on the horizon people are buying up kindle fires on eBay. I suggest if any of you want to upgrade to sell now before the kindle fire 2 comes out and drops the resale value of the original.
I like Amazon tablet builds combined with custom roms. If it were not for custom roms, I would probably not consider buying another Amzon tablet. But theses babies will be fast. Each of the new HDX tablets houses a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and an Adreno 330 graphics processor. Comes stock with Amazon's bloatware 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Amazon is now taking pre-orders on all Kindle Fire HDX's. First KFHDX 7" with wifi only will ship October 18. It does not look like 8 Gig will be an option at this time (if at all.)
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Wi-Fi (16GB) $229 $379
Wi-Fi (32GB) $269 $429
Wi-Fi (64GB) $309 $479
4G (16GB) $329 $479
4G (32GB) $369 $529
4G (64GB) $409 $579
Yeah. No 8gb. They are not necessary though. In the long run you will find yourself wanting more space.
LinearEquation said:
I like Amazon tablet builds combined with custom roms. If it were not for custom roms, I would probably not consider buying another Amzon tablet. But theses babies will be fast. Each of the new HDX tablets houses a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and an Adreno 330 graphics processor. Comes stock with Amazon's bloatware 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Amazon is now taking pre-orders on all Kindle Fire HDX's. First KFHDX 7" with wifi only will ship October 18. It does not look like 8 Gig will be an option at this time (if at all.)
--------------------- 7" - 8.9"
Wi-Fi (16GB) $229 $379
Wi-Fi (32GB) $269 $429
Wi-Fi (64GB) $309 $479
4G (16GB) $329 $479
4G (32GB) $369 $529
4G (64GB) $409 $579
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This tablet plus custom rom will be the perfect android tablet!
GhostNGoblins91 said:
It remains to be seen if the HDX will be jailbroken. If not, I will have to stick with the Nexus 7 for my go-to tablet.
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I'm sure it will be some time before an HTX gets rooted and longer for a 2nd bootloader exploit. Time will tell.
Looks like Amazon is ahead of schedule. At least they have charged my card today and they usually do it, when shipment is processed/you can no more cancel it or change in a simple way.
And my HDX is marked now as Shipping Now. I suppose it should left Amazon today or Monday as latest.
Hope so.
I got mine delivered yesterday. Great device. Even tried Mayday support and I was overall happy and impressed.
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I got mine delivered yesterday. Great device. Even tried Mayday support and I was overall happy and impressed.
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How fast is the stock HDX over stock HD 7? More pep?
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LinearEquation said:
How fast is the stock HDX over stock HD 7? More pep?
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Definitely the HDX is much improved over the HD. The screen is the major difference but performance is obvious as well.
Lucky man!! I have doubt about 7 or 8.9 inch.. Really I like both.. The custom rom is the more important point. It is better than the new nexus 7..so... I will got one. The multiwindows like samsung tab will be perfect!
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madridfran said:
This tablet plus custom rom will be the perfect android tablet!
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Depends on your definition of perfect. Lack of SD card slot, lack of micro HDMI and bloatware Amazon OS based on old Jellybean version are major drawbacks, IMO.
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I just got an 8.9! That new financing deal amazon did is great, i can easily budget it and get one quick! I just flashed my first kindle fire for my girlfriend and she's using it like a brand new google tablet. I will say this though, this thing gets HOT with standard usage. It's so incredibly thin too, i'm so scared of breaking it. I've sideloaded things like chrome and a few other essentials that aren't on the amazon store and even found a way to get that 5 dollar credit by installing on another device. Cool stuff.
I don't know when, but today when I went to amazon, the tablets have new prices...
Kindle Fire HD 7: $20 cheaper from $139 to $119
Kindle Fire HDX 7: $30 cheaper from $229 to $199
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: $40 cheaper from $379 to $339
Kindle Fire HD: still $299
Oh, I would rather I had bought it later !!!
qingtest said:
I don't know when, but today when I went to amazon, the tablets have new prices...
Kindle Fire HD 7: $20 cheaper from $139 to $119
Kindle Fire HDX 7: $30 cheaper from $229 to $199
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: $40 cheaper from $379 to $339
Kindle Fire HD: still $299
Oh, I would rather I had bought it later !!!
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They always go in sales, but they are incredibly priced either way!
ferrouskid said:
They always go in sales, but they are incredibly priced either way!
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They will do nothing but continue to fall in price with each passing month.
And brandspankingnew! In case someone still wants to grab this 32GB Kindle HD 1st generation, here's the Amazon link
http://www.amazon.de/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_163485227_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000810373&pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=right-3&pf_rd_r=0TG0CT8RK4DJ4NFPJ039&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=503431647&pf_rd_i=186606
Not sure if this also works for people outside Germany. Hope, someone enjoys the information as much as I did.
It'll be my first Kindle to play around with.
Can't go wrong for that price, right? :good:
I ordered one this morning, I think 99 euros is a pretty fair price.
Also ordered a fastboot cable with it since I want to put CM11 on it
Probably not the fastest tablet (even for 99 bucks), but overall a pretty decent device I think.
Damn i was too late...
But i bought 16gb instead for the same price
I took a chance on a refurbished Fire HD 8 (2016) 32GB for $45.36 delivered via a sale on Amazon. I think the sale is still going but don't bother mine is 5.3.2.1