Rumor: Amazon wants to sell upcoming 6-inch tablet for $50

Amazon’s upcoming 6″ tablet should cost $50, which would be half the price of the current Fire HD 6. That reports business newspaper The Wall Street Journal. To bring the price down, Amazon does not have a stereo, but mono loudspeakers in the housing.

The Wall Street Journal does not provide further details about the tablet. The price was allegedly born of the ambition to set the price for both the cheapest Kindle e-reader and the cheapest Fire tablet at $50, but the Kindle’s electronic ink screen proved too expensive to match the price. to lower further. The cheapest Kindle is currently $79.

To give the tablet a price of 50 dollars, converted and including VAT around 54 euros, Amazon has outsourced the development to Chinese manufacturers. It wouldn’t be Amazon’s first 6″ tablet. The web store is already selling the $99 Fire HD 6, which includes a 6″ LCD with 1280×800 pixels and a MediaTek MTK8135 soc.

The web store would like to offer the cheap tablet to sell more hardware. Amazon has tried, among other things, to sell more expensive Fire tablets and the Fire Phone at higher prices, but those products have not caught on.

In addition to the 6″ model, Amazon would also like to sell tablets with screen diagonals of 8″ and 10″. The latter will be the largest Fire tablet to date. The largest model now has a diagonal of 8.9″. The tablets should be released before the end of the year, but when Amazon will present them is unknown.

Current Fire HD Tablet