Sunday, September 9, 2012

Amazon to allow ads opt-out on Kindle Fire HD for $15 upcharge

Unlike Amazon's policy with Kindle readers, you can't pay a bit extra to opt out of the ads. They're baked into that attractive $199 starting price. (What I really don't understand is why the top-of-the-line $499 Kindle Fire HD will still make you lookJust a day after confirming that consumers would be unable to opt-out of the Kindle Fire HD's integrated lockscreen ads, Amazon has reversed its decision. Confirmed in a statement issued to TheYou'd be forgiven for wondering just what Amazon was up to with Special Offers ads on the Kindle Fire HD: we were given the hope that we could opt out.An on-screen tap during a movie will list actors in the scene, with more clicks, you can learn more about them from Amazon's movie information service IMDb. In books, X-Ray has been a popular feature on the Kindle Touch that now works on Kindle Fire.And though everyone's jaws dropped when Jeff Bezos unveiled the pricing for the 4G Kindle Fire HD's wireless data plan -- 250MB of monthly data delivered via AT&T LTE for a mere $50 per year -- that plan won't do much for you when you want to stream or
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