Amazon announces new Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9...

Within the last few hours, Amazon has announced there new iteration of the Kindle range with the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9. Obviously, we're interested in this new 8.9-inch variant of the Kindle Fire. However, specs wise you can expect 40% faster performance over the original Kindle Fire, according to Amazon.

Exact specs for the Kindle Fire HD include a 7-inch IPS display with WXGA resolution (800x1280), powered by a dual-core TI OMAP 4470 processor clocked at 1.2GHz with 1GB of RAM. The device only has a front-facing which is said to be HD with no exact resolution given. Internal storage is at 16GB for $199.

Now for the new kid on the block, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 packs a 8.9-inch IPS display with WUXGA resolution (1200x1920), powered by a dual-core TI OMAP 4470 processor with 1GB of RAM. Similarly, The device has only one camera, being a HD capable front-facing camera. Internal storage is at 16GB for a price of $299.