Amazon's first fully fledged tablet has a number of factors in its favour - the popular Kindle brand, the company's array of downloadable content and its relatively low price. But its technical specs may fall against more expensive rivals.A version with limited touchscreen capability, known as the Kindle Touch, will sell for $99. Only the US pricing has been announced so far.
Although the company has never released official sales figures for the Kindle, it did state - in December 2010 that it was now selling more electronic copies of books than paper copiesBlackberry has a lot riding on the success of the PlayBook, as it struggles to maintain a significant position in the smartphone market.The company was widely pilloried for shipping the first version without an e-mail application.
