A strange thing just popped into my mind: about 8 months ago when MG Siegler first posted [1] about Amazon having a Kindle tablet in production, he said they we

A strange thing just popped into my mind: about 8 months ago when MG Siegler first posted [1] about Amazon having a Kindle tablet in production, he said they were going for a cheap, low-spec'd, 7 inch tablet for Q4 2011 (just to get their hands wet and evaluate the market) and the real Kindle tablet (a 10" beast with cameras, retina display and powerful CPU/GPU) would arrive Q1 2012 to compete directly with iPad. It's May already and there's not even a single rumor of such a tablet (at least nothing that I've heard of), and it seems like everyone's forgotten about it. Now, I have an iPad (2) and wouldn't use a 10" Kindle Fire even if you gave it to me free of charge, but I was really looking forward to a decent, reasonably priced alternative to the iPad. It's a shame that apparently there would be no such product... [1]: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/02/amazon-kindle-tablet/