Just as the 7-inch tablet market is becoming more successful, so Amazon is reportedly preparing a 10-inch follow up to its existing Kindle Fire.
China Times claims Amazon is looking to build on the success its tablet has amassed with a larger, and cheaper to make successor - though the exact design is yet to finalised.
Cost cutting
A 10-inch variant - manufactured by Foxconn is the mooted option, with the switch of ODM enabling Amazon to have more control over components.
In October 2011, IHS iSuppli estimated Amazon would lose almost $11 on every Kindle Fire sold, with the firm expecting to recoup such losses through its online services and the sale of apps through Appstore for Android.
It's suggested that, with Q1 sales having hit an estimated 6 million, Amazon is now looking to turn on profit on hardware alone, sourcing cheaper parts to reduce its expenses.
The site claims the new Kindle Fire will go into mass production in May or June, before being unleashed upon the buying public at the end of Q2 2012.
[source: Ubergizmo]
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