If you haven't pre-ordered your Amazon Fire tablet for $49.99 yet, I urge you to do so before the release on 9/30/15. Why? Because there are rumblings out there in the news media that Amazon might actually be selling the Fire below cost, and if that's the case, this pricing will not be sustainable for long.
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.
Last week,
Amazon released an brand new Fire for $49.99 shipped.
And it looks like you are going to get a LOT more than you pay for.
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, as needed, which is a brilliant feature (why can't I do that on my iPad?).
My husband and I each own iPads, but we jumped on the train and pre-ordered a $49.99 Fire. There is basically nothing that our iPads can do that the Fire can't do, at least not from what I'm reading. I was concerned about being able to run MS Office apps on the Fire, but after a little research, I discovered that I could run
an app called Office Suite Professional 8 (free!), which allows me to us to create, open and edit documents, powerpoint slideshows and spreadsheets completely compatible with MS Office (same extensions). You can also 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 a $50 Fire, not a $500 iPad. (We spend more than that on a good dinner out.)
I think this is a terrific order, so don't let it pass you by, especially before holiday season.
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 gift giving in the holiday season, 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's going to seriously give the iPad a run for the money. It ships (for free) on September 30, 2015. (If you want to do the 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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