Best Buy has the basic Fire TV stick on sale for $14.99.
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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.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/64...le-Fire-electric-shock-risk-children-chargers
Was bit disappointed that I'd read about it here before Amazon got around to emailing about it.
The £12 voucher to get a new charger placated that pretty fast.
Bit of a bump as they've finally sent me the envelope to return the old one.
I was shopping for a Shield TV on Amazon UK for a few days and suddenly today there's a message:
"Currently unavailable. - We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."
Could there be a new model coming down the pipe?
JFH2005 said:
I was shopping for a Shield TV on Amazon UK for a few days and suddenly today there's a message:
"Currently unavailable. - We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."
Could there be a new model coming down the pipe?
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Try Ebuyer Amazon were not offering free controller ebuyer are £149 with 2 controllers.
JFH2005 said:
Could there be a new model coming down the pipe?
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More probable that it's not been a good seller and they're stopping selling it?
I would think that if a new model was this close then there would have been announcements or at least rumours.
It came back on Amazon UK again... but it doesn't have the extra free controller (two total) like Nvidia.com is selling for the same price.
In any event, I just ordered a Wetek Core for $112 which I reckon will do the trick for me. It's powerful enough for Kodi and comes with a decent remote. It will replace my Roku 3 (I've been a Roku user from day one).
Nvidia should give people a choice between games controller, remote or nada - they'd sell far more Shield TV boxes.
I've never played games in my life so the thought of being stuck with a games controller and paying more for a remote just turned me off.
Plus, the Shield TV has been out for about a year now - I'd expect a new model within a few months.
JFH2005 said:
It came back on Amazon UK again... but it doesn't have the extra free controller (two total) like Nvidia.com is selling for the same price.
In any event, I just ordered a Wetek Core for $112 which I reckon will do the trick for me. It's powerful enough for Kodi and comes with a decent remote. It will replace my Roku 3 (I've been a Roku user from day one).
Nvidia should give people a choice between games controller, remote or nada - they'd sell far more Shield TV boxes.
I've never played games in my life so the thought of being stuck with a games controller and paying more for a remote just turned me off.
Plus, the Shield TV has been out for about a year now - I'd expect a new model within a few months.
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The two game pads are a promotion that finishes on the 1st of May. Stores like Ebuyer and Scan are honouring it in the UK...I bought my Shield TV just over a month ago when the remote was bundled free on promotion. Honestly the remote isn't all that and is overpriced in my opinion....even if people don't want the extra pad being bundled, it shouldn't be hard to sell on to recoup cash on the initial purchase.
I'm sure you did your homework before buying. I've read many reviews and most don't really do the device justice....many mention the remote as being needed but neglect to mention the CEC compatibility (use the actual television remote) or the free apps available for smartphones to control Android TV or Kodi. Yes the "gaming chops" of the Shield TV are often mentioned but I'm still confident I bought the better hardware...it's actually Android TV that lets the device down. Many people are using Kodi and 3rd party addons to use ITV Player, which is crazy as they should have android apps available for the device.
With the update to Marshmallow it's actually more cost effective to buy the 16GB model and add your own storage (MicroSD or USB HDD) . These promotions surprise me as I figured Nvidia would need to bundle extra "goodies" for the Pro version to entice people to purchase that model.
I wouldn't be so sure about a new device so soon. I felt the same about the Shield tablet, after a year on the shelves I knew the Shield TV was on the horizon and (wrongly) assumed they would do a new tablet with Maxwell. Instead they released the Shield K1, still using Kepler and removing some features to lower the price point.
eBay search: Amazon Kindle (5th Generation) 7 in - 8.9 in Screen Tablets shows SV98LN
Wikipedia: Amazon Fire tablet show KFFOWI
This XDA post Help me unbrick my Kindle Fire Gen 5 mentions both SV98LN and KFFOWI.
This XDA post Bootloader Unlock Ideas has the text, "I bought one of these 7-inch Fire Tablets (5th generation) during the $35 sale a few weeks back. I purchased it from a big chain store, so it has model SV98LN rather than the KFFOWI reported by others in this forum.
A Google search for "amazon SV98LN kffowi" gives a top result of Fire Tablet with Alexa, 7" Display, 8 GB
When my Fire 7" was still alive, it said it was KFFOWI, but then it crossed the Capacitor Bridge to heaven and I started looking on eBay for a replacement.
TL;DR I can't find anything official at amazon.com that explicitly states SV98LN is the same as KFFOWI. What am I missing, and what would I get if I bought SV98LN off of ebay?
Was thinking of getting one as a cheap streaming tablet, but no interest in Amazon's limited "Android"