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Tablets are a dime a dozen, and that has been the case for several years now. In an attempt to separate its Fire tablets from the pack, Amazon introduced a live support feature called Mayday nearly five years ago, with the now infamous Amazon 'Amy' starring in TV commercials and press images. While seemingly big at the time, Mayday didn't turn the tablet world on its head, and now Amazon is yanking the video calling portion of Mayday. "The Mayday video calling service will be discontinued in June 2018," Amazon states on its Mayday customer support page. "You can still contact Amazon customer service any time through phone, email, and chat...If you would like technical support for your device,...
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We were tipped that Amazon would be introducing a $50 tablet earlier this month, but we were left to speculate as to how exactly the online retail giant would be able to hit that price point. Well, today we’re finding out all the gory details on Amazon’s latest effort to push its services into the hands of more customers. The new entry-level Fire tablet, as we previously surmised, comes with a 1024x600 IPS display, hence why it doesn’t have the “HD” moniker attached to its name. You’ll also find a 1.3GHz quad-core processor with 1GB of RAM (Amazon claims that the Fire’s processor is twice as powerful as the unit found in Samsung’s competing Tab 3 Lite), 8GB of internal storage, and a microSD...
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