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Amazon Kindle Fire to gain performance boosts in software update

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire is reportedly due for its first software update, partly in response to complaints about the performance of the hot-selling new tablet.

The retail giant, which has in the Fire a sales hit, is looking to improve the Web-browsing speed of its first tablet, among other things, according to a report from the New York Times.

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‘In less than two weeks, we’re rolling out an over-the-air update to Kindle Fire,’ Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said in the report.

As well as the speed of its Silk Browser, the software update should improve the responsiveness of the Fire’s multitouch navigation and users will also be able to edit the Carousel of recent items they’ve used on the device, the New York Times said.

The Fire’s last software update came about a month ago and since the Fire first shipped about a month ago, a significant number of consumers have complained to Amazon about the performance of their devices, and some have returned the new gadget because they were so unhappy with it, the report said.

Amazon doesn’t disclose its sales or return numbers for the Fire, or any other Kindle devices, but reviews (myself included) did have a number of performance complaints with the 7-inch tablet. However, research groups have estimated that already, the Kindle Fire is the second-best selling tablet in the U.S.

The report also echoes the rumors that Amazon is working on a new Kindle Fire, possibly with a larger screen size, that could launch in the spring.

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