the first generation kindle fire came out in europe on september 6, 2012.
when did the first generation kindle fire come out in europe?
september 6, 2012
, the kindle fire was the second best selling tablet after apple's ipad, with about 7 million units sold according to estimates by forrester research and amazon's tablets were the fourth best selling.





























on september 6, 2012, the kindle fire was upgraded to the second generation, and its price was reduced to , ram upgraded to 1 gb and processor clock speed upgraded to 1.2 ghz. a more powerful and video-friendly version, the kindle fire hd (7 and 8.9 inch versions) was also made available, initially priced at $199 and $299.
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content formats supported by the first-generation kindle fire were kindle format 8 (kf8), kindle mobi (.azw), txt, pdf, unrestricted mobi, prc natively, audible (audible enhanced (aa, aax)), doc, docx, jpeg, gif, png, bmp, non-drm aac, mp3, midi, ogg, wav, mp4, vp8.





























because of amazon's usb driver implementation, the first-generation kindle fire suffered from slow usb transfer speeds. for example, transferring an 800mb video file may have taken more than three minutes in 2011.
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