10-inch Amazon Kindle Fire Leaked? See Rumored Specs & Features of Android 5.1 Lollipop-Based Tablet
The rumor mills have been abuzz lately over a supposed six-inch budget tablet from Amazon. If newly leaked renders from a reliable tipster are to be taken as real, the Seattle-based commerce and electronics company has something else up its sleeves.
Evan Blass aka @evleaks recently posted an image on social media, which showed off Amazon's rumored 10-inch Kindle Fire.
10-inch Kindle Fire from Amazon. pic.twitter.com/dxFxKJodO9
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) September 16, 2015
The Twitter image from the 37-year-old gadget leaker was then quickly analyzed by online tech outfits.
Android Authority noted that device was a considerable change from earlier Fire tablets.
The placement of its front-facing unit entails users to go portrait mode when using the selfie camera, unlike previous Fire tablets that had landscape placements for its front cameras. Its power button and volume keys seem to be on top of the device, which is unusual for an Android tablet.
The leak suggests that Amazon is currently refocusing towards its Fire tablets lineup to compensate for the company's losses caused by the less-than-stellar market performance of the Fire Phone, Engadget reported.
Amazon's first crack at the smartphone market was introduced on June 2014 and released the month after. Needless to say, it had no beginner's luck.
When it was evident to Amazon that the sales of the Fire Phone can no longer be salvaged, the company reportedly canceled plans for future smartphones entirely. To add to the disappointment, Amazon also laid off several of its hardware engineers as a result of the losses.
Going back to the unreleased Amazon tablet, the device was tipped again just a few hours after the @evleaks post.
The benchmark database, which showed off the specs of the 10-inch Kindle Fire, hinted that the device will at least be a mid-level tablet.
According to GFXBench listings, the prototype version of the 10-inch Kindle Fire has a 1280 x 800p display, 1 GB of RAM and 13 GB of internal memory.
The test indicated that the device sported MediaTek's MT8135 processor containing two ARM Cortex-A15 CPU cores and two Cortex-A7 cores plus a PowerVR Rogue G6200 GPU.
Furthermore, it was equipped with a 5.1-inch rear camera with flash and face detection capabilities while its front-facing unit came it at one-megapixel.
The prototype was shown to include generic features such as Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth connectivity. It also sported an accelerometer, pedometer and gyroscope. Lastly, it ran on the Android 5.1 Lollipop in the guise of Amazon's Fire OS.
Fans might be satisfied with the 10-inch Kindle Fire upon its eventual release. However, the device's possible turndown points are its low amount of RAM and odd choice of resolution display.
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