Amazon's Hardware Lineup for Holiday Season Includes Bigger Tablets, 4K Streaming, HVEC
Amazon rolled out streaming media players and tablets for the holidays. The company began taking pre-orders Thursday for the four Fire HD tablets and three Fire TV media streaming players, including Amazon’s first gaming player. The new Amazon Fire TV,…
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75 percent more powerful than its predecessor, streams 4K Ultra HD movies and is the first media player to include an HEVC encoder, said Amazon. It adds voice control via Amazon’s Alexa, which allows users to find music or TV shows or query for information such as weather and traffic, it said. The player has add-on storage capability up to 128 GB with a microSD card slot. Amazon said it has access to more 4K Ultra HD movies than any other streaming media player, with 4K content from Netflix, Amazon Video and Prime Video. Fire OS 5 will debut in the new tablet lineup, offering a overhauled user interface, “deep integration” with Amazon services and a multitude of upgraded features, said Amazon.