Amazon Mom and Amazon Prime members get an exclusive discount on Amazon Kindle Fire tablets

Amazon recently had a sale that took $50 off the price of the Amazon Kindle Fire HD. The discounted price for the tablet was $149.99. The bad news is that this particular sale is over. But Amazon isn't done taking an ax to its tablet pricing as the online retailer is now offering discounts to those who are signed up for Amazon Prime or Amazon Mom. The latter is a membership club for mothers and offers a three month free trial, after which it costs $79 a year to get 20% off diapers and wipes, and discounts on other products like an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon Prime is a $79 a year membership club that allows subscribers to stream commercial-free movies and television shows on their Amazon tablet through Amazon Instant Video. Amazon Prime members can also choose from a large selection of books to read on their Amazon mobile device.

If you're a member of either club, you can take $20 off the price of the Amazon Kindle Fire 2 to $139. Or, you can purchase the Amazon Kindle Fire HD for $174, which is a $25 haircut. Those two tablets each have a 7 inch screen. If you need a larger display, you can get the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with an 8.9 inch HD screen for $249, which is a $50 discount.

Last year, you might recall that the Amazon Kindle Fire had come out of nowhere to challenge the Apple iPad for the lead in holiday tablet sales. Now, with more competition from the Google Nexus 7, and the Apple iPad mini, Amazon has had to massage its pricing a little.

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New York Times for Android app updated for tablets

All the news that's fit to print wasn't fitting very well on 10 inch Android tablets. So The New York Times for Android has been updated to offer a better UI for those with the larger sized tablets like the Google Nexus 10. The update allows the image on screen to adjust to different screen sizes. On the 10 inch glass, The New York Times offers a "more compelling layout" with multiple columns, larger images and scaled typography.

The updated New York Times for Android also gives you more control over how you receive Breaking News. A quick look at the Top News will now show you the latest news and features from other sections. And the update also brings some bug fixes and enhancements to the app. This will be version 3.0 for those keep track of such things.

The New York Times for Android is a free download from the Google Play Store.

source: NYTimesforAndroid via AndroidCentral

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Allwinner brings A20 dual-core, A31-quad-core processors, coming in a myriad of Chinese tablets

AllWinner is not a well known chip maker in Western countries, but jump to China where cheapo tablets rule the market, and you’d be hearing a lot more about the AllWinner A10, an affordable Cortex A8-based chip.

And now, it’s gotten its worthy successors in the form of the brand new dual-core AllWinner A20 and quad-core AllWinner A31. The cores inside them are based on ARM’s Cortex A7 architecture, the more power efficient counterpart to the A15 in ARM’s big.LITTLE setup.

Good news is the two chips will power Android 4.2 (or newer) devices.

When it comes to their specs, the AllWinner A20 is a dual-core chip with the ARM Mali-400 graphics processor and 512KB of L2 cache. It supports 2160p HD video playback. Good news is that it is pin-to-pin compatible with the preceding A10 chip, so manufacturers could easily use existing designs to update their lineups with this new chip.

The quad-core AllWinner A31 is also A7-based, but this time not pin-to-pin compatible. It packs much more powerful graphics in the form of the PowerVR SGX 544, capable of decoding 4k video streams.

source: AllWinner via TG Daily, Engadget

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Chameleon Launcher for Android tablets now sports a more palatable $3.99 price tag

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