[Live Blog] Amazon Press Conference

Following the Nokia and Motorola announcements yesterday, its Amazon's turn at the stage as they get set to reveal, what is expected to be a new lineup of Kindle devices.

We expect a successor to the Amazon Kindle Fire along with a larger Kindle tablet. Rumors also suggest that the company will unveil an Amazon branded smartphone.

The event is taking place today, September 6th at 1.30 PM EST (10.30 AM PST) in Santa Monica California. So be sure to bookmark this page and be back in time to follow our live blog.

In case you missed our Live Blog coverage of the Amazon Press Conference for their new Kindle lineup, you can now watch it online

Amazon Press Conference - Live

The event is taking place in the Barker Hanger... Can't believe they rented out a hanger for this... Don't know what to expect :) - We will be back closer to the time of the event to kick off the live blog, please stay tuned - Apologies for the delay guys (technical difficulties), will try and catch up with what I missed - The Kindle Paperwhite is first up - Higher 212 ppi resolution, 25% better contrast.. Patented light guide... - "People are going to love the light" Bezos says - We can see the Kindle Fire has influenced the design... Starts in cover mode, and you can switch the cloud to view your entire library... - The fonts are now being demonstrated. Smooth, Black text and drop caps - Demonstrating lights... Which can be adjusted using onscreen slider - The amount of time it will take to complete the book is shown... Your reading speed is tracked and times are adjusted accordingly... - X-Ray Feature Author Bio and Bibliography are demonstrated - This is the first device will Paperwhite display, has Amazon Whispersync and free storage on Amazon Cloud...   The PaperWhite Kin… - The 3G version of the Paperwhite Kindle will cost $179 and will ship on October 1st if ordered today - The $79 Kindle has now been reduced to $69 and will ship starting September 14 - The New Kindle has some minor improvements: Crisper text 15% faster page turns - Bezos is talking about how authors who struggle with publishing their work can do so easily through Amazon. - Kindle Direct Publishing allows authors to publish in just hours, for free and keep their copyrights, publish at their own schedules and keep their royalties. - A video demo on Kindle Direct publishing is being shown - new 9 inch Kindle Fire .... 8.8mm thin, 20 ounces, 8.9 IPS display 254ppi 1920x1200 pixel resolution Advanced true wide polarizing filter OMAP 4470 CPU - Now comparing the processor to NVidia Tegra 3 - Kindle Fire HD is its name..  Also features Has Dolby Digital Plus sound, 2.4GHz WiFi - Just to summaries... Two Kindle Fire tablets: Updated original New Kindle Fire HD with 9 inch display - Now talking about the Wi-Fi technology - The Kindle Fire HD will be the first tablet to incorporate MIMO - two antennas and dual bands - The new Kindle Fire HD, Wi-Fi is 41% faster than the iPad and faster wi-fi than the Nexus 7 - Kindle Fire HD starts at 16GB of internal storage - You can now X-Ray movies.... Tap an actor you see in a movie and see what he was in... Powered by IMDB - Now talking about games - Talks about Whispersync for games, which will allow to store your saved content to the cloud, and pick up where you left off on another device. - Updated email support including support for Exchange - Kindle Free Time, allows setting time limits for different types of content, Books can be unlimited, but games and videos can be limited - Profiles for family members.. Great... Your are not forced into buying one tablet for each member of the family - Profiles are unfortunately only for FreeTime, It would be great if this is extended to your entire Amazon account... Maybe next year :P - Movies X-Ray is demonstrated - Game demo - Kindle Fire HD demonstrates X-Ray textbooks... Offers glossary of what you are reading - So just to summarize again... Three Kindle Fire devices: Old Kindle Fire - $ 159; New Kindle Fire - $ 199 Kindle Fire HD - $ 299 - Stay tuned for full specs and features, coming soon Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE wireless, with 32GB of storage will cost $499 - That includes 250MB data per month, 20GB of cloud storage at $49.99 per year + $10 Amazon credit... Order today and it will ship on November 20th - That's it... No Phone unfortunately.... - Its demo time... - Stay tuned for stats, features and more information in the coming hours... - Thanks for reading