Amazon Ditching Kindle Fire’s Previous Look For More Android Appearance, UI — Specs, Features, Pricing & Release Date Here

By Staff Reporter

Sep 17, 2015 07:09 AM EDT

Amazon may be ditching its carousel UI for its Kindle Fire tablets and is also leaving behind its tablet’s traditional form factor after photos of its new Kindle Fire tablet appearing to be more of an Android device surfaced this week.

Famous tech leaker Evan Blass dropped some hints on what the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet could look like after sharing an image of the next-generation tablet from the Seattle, Washington-headquartered electronic company.

Based on what Blass has leaked on Twitter, the specs and features of the Kindle Fire tablet may be mediocre, as noted by Digit, who got hold of the renders of the upcoming device. The display is a 1280 x 800 touchscreen that supports 5-finger gesture.

The tablet will be powered by a quad-core chipset that is clocked at 1.5 GHz, while its GPU is the PowerVR Rogue G6200. RAM is only 0.9 GB. Meanwhile, internal storage is 13GB. However, this could only pertain to the base model of the device.

Other hardware features include the 5.1-megapixel back camera that comes with a flash and has HDR photo and face detection technology. The front camera is a 0.9-megapixel shooter.

Meanwhile, the photo of the new Amazon Android tablet shows that the device is nothing like its predecessors, given its sharper lines and corners. The photo, as per Engadget, even hints that Amazon may be moving away from its distinct carousel UI and is embracing a cleaner look similar to the stock UI of Android tablets.

The leaked listing also revealed that Amazon's 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet will run on Android v5.1 Lollipop. Pricing of the new Kindle Fire is still not available as of writing.

The leaked photo and renders of the 10-inch Kindle Fire tablet came amid reports that the company is engineering a smaller tablet that would cost only $50 in hopes of offsetting the losses the company has incurred in its failed Fire Phone.

Dispatch Times has learned that Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has claimed that the low-priced mini tablet is the company's way of luring price-conscious buyers into its market. More details about Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablets will arrive soon, so stay tuned.