Amazon Kindle Fire 2 complete guide

125) device promises to be the smoothest and most seamless gadget for media consumption ever. And that includes the iPad. While the Kindle Fire has yet to spark into life -- there is no UK launch planned yet -- an iPad-busting follow-up is already shaping up.

Some sources say Chinese manufacturer Foxconn is currently building the Fire's successor tablet, codenamed Hollywood. It could even arrive as early as March or April 2012. This raises the tantalising possibility of a spring showdown between Apple's first post-Steve iPad and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's big screen rival. Read on to find out what we already know about the Fire 2 -- and what we'd like to see.

Basics

First things first: the Kindle Fire 2 is not going to be called the Kindle Fire 2. That's because Amazon's next tablet is unlikely to be a replacement for the Fire but a step up from it. In announcing Amazon's most recent financial results, Bezos said that the company was making "millions" more Fires in response to demand -- the last thing he wants is for those to languish on the shelf while a fancier model sells out.

Expect the next Kindle tablet -- the Inferno? the Blaze? -- to take the range up a notch. A 10.1-inch screen is almost guaranteed: there are plenty of them about so the prices are actually better than fussing with smaller custom sizes like the (admittedly lovely) Sony's Tablet S 9.4-inch display.

Talking of price, the chances are very good that we'll see another jaw-dropping loss leader. It might sound crazy today but our money is on a $299 price tag -- say

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