Amazon Fire Tablet for $50!!! Wow. Pre-order now for Chanukah!

There have been $50 tablets out there since the iPad's invention, but let's face it: they were crummy, slow, cheap, do-nothing tablets. You got what you paid for.

Today, Amazon released an brand new Fire for $49.99 shipped.  And you are going to get a LOT more than you pay for. 

I've been reading about the $50 Fire all morning.  I can't seem to find a downside to this deal. "The breakthrough price of Fire combined with Amazon’s durable engineering opens up many new ways for you to upgrade your rooms: in the kitchen as a digital cookbook or to watch your favorite cooking show, in the TV room as an entertainment controller, in the bedroom to watch a movie or check the weather before you get dressed, and in your car for backseat entertainment."

It's got 8 GB of storage but (unlike most other tablets) you can expand the storage by adding a 16, 32 or 128 GB memory card, if you like.  That is an awesome feature.

My husband and I each own iPads, but we are seriously considering picking up a $50 Fire just for travel.  There is basically nothing that our iPads can do that the Fire can't do, at least not from what I'm reading (I'm still looking into whether or not I can run MS Office on the Fire).  You can watch movies, take pictures, play games, Skype, get to the Internet, check your email, log into social sites, listen to music, read e-books, etc. on the Fire.  If you drop it, spill coffee on it, or it gets stolen or lost, it's $50, not $500.   (We spent more than that for dinner out last week.)

I think this is an incredible offer.

And, to ramp things up, if you buy five Fires, you'll get a sixth one free, with promo code FIRE6PACK, which lowers the price to $41.66 per Fire.  Excellent for the holiday season if you'd like to give a bunch of Fires as gifts, but also fabulous if you want to get together with a few friends to lower your cost by a solid 17%.

Here are the official whutchugets:

• Beautiful 7" IPS display (171 ppi / 1024 x 600) and fast 1.3 GHz quad-core processor. Rear and front-facing cameras.
• All-new Amazon Underground, a one-of-a-kind app store experience where over $10,000 in apps, games and even in-app items are actually free - including extra lives, unlocked levels, unlimited add-on packs and more
• Enjoy more than 38 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps and games
• 8 GB of internal storage. Free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices. Add a microSD card for up to 128 GB of additional storage.
• Updated user interface - Fire OS 5 designed for quick access to your apps and content plus personalized recommendations that make it easy to discover new favorites
• Up to 7 hours of reading, surfing the web, watching videos, and listening to music
• Stay connected with fast web browsing, email, and calendar support

Pre-order the $49.99 Fire now.  It ships (for free) on September 30, 2015. (If you want to do the limited  buy-five-get-one-free deal, make sure you enter promo code FIRE6PACK at checkout.)

Amazon disclaimer:  Amazon prices can change without warning, so make sure you double-check the price at checkout.  If the price goes up any time after this deal is posted, Amazon is not responsible for matching this price.

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