| Currently, this sector of the small electronics business | | | | handle the showing of high definition movies, music |
| is dominated by the Kindle, a thin, tablet like e-book | | | | videos, YouTube and of course podcasts. The iPad is |
| reader and a multimedia device offered by Amazon | | | | a truly take it with you movie solution. The Kindle |
| Inc. Despite practically inventing this fledgling | | | | does not support motion video at this time.iPOD |
| electronics niche, Amazon is truly facing stiff | | | | iTUNES - The iPad is the perfect device to import |
| competition from Apple, taking into account their | | | | multimedia from either your iPod or iTunes account. |
| dominance of the small hand held touch screen | | | | Any music that you've purchased via iTunes is easily |
| device business by their iPhone product. | | | | transferred over to your new tablet device. The |
| As the two prepare to face off in what is already | | | | Kindle does feature the ability to play MP3 tunes but |
| being anticipated is the electronics battlefield for | | | | fails to compare with the feature-rich music studio |
| 2010, the gadget buying public is scrambling to | | | | that the iPad boasts.iBOOKS - Perhaps one of the |
| discover what makes the Apple iPad a better choice | | | | main components of a thin, tablet like multimedia |
| than the Amazon Kindle. Exploring some of the iPad | | | | device is its ability to deliver outstanding literary |
| features and comparing them to the Kindle will shed | | | | choices for its user. The iPad does a great job of |
| some more light on this hot topic: | | | | providing a wide variety of books and publications. |
| Web Browsing - the Apple iPad comes equipped with | | | | This is perhaps the one area that the Amazon Kindle |
| the computer giant's already popular Safari web | | | | still maintains a degree of superiority over at the iPad, |
| browser. This alone makes the iPad the stronger | | | | as its book selection and deliverability is slightly better. |
| device as the Kindle features a minimal browser at | | | | App Store - The iPad makes adding additional |
| best, not to mention one that can compete with | | | | applications simple with its built-in app store. This is |
| Safari. | | | | yet another feature that makes the Apple offering a |
| Email -Reading electronic mail is another impressive | | | | more robust piece of personal electronics, as adding |
| feature that the iPad bests the Kindle in. Most | | | | additional features to the Kindle is yet to be |
| impressively, Apple has integrated a feature-rich | | | | supported. |
| e-mail client that supports an on-screen, QWERTY | | | | Storage - yet another area where the iPad defeats |
| touch pad, as well as the ability to manipulate e-mail | | | | the Kindle hands-down is the amount of storage |
| in portrait or landscape view. Unfortunately the Kindle | | | | space made available. The Kindle offers a modest 4 |
| doesn't feature an e-mail client. | | | | GB of storage, as compared to a basic 16 GB made |
| Photos - With its 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 | | | | available by the iPad. Additionally, Apple makes it |
| pixels per inch (ppi) display capabilities, the iPad can | | | | possible to have as much as 32 GB internal or 64 GB |
| deliver photos with crystal-clear precision. In fact, the | | | | with a flash drive. |
| iPad can be used as an impressive digital photo album, | | | | Both devices do a great job of integrating the latest |
| displaying all of your best photographs. The Amazon | | | | technologies and connectivity. Both integrate wi-fi and |
| Kindle can handle photographs, but only in black and | | | | 3G Internet browsing. This is one area where the |
| white resolution. | | | | both perform equally well and definitely over deliver |
| Video - The large, oversized display screen can | | | | and their promises in this category. |