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Amazon Steps Up Kindle Fire Manufacturing Orders

Amazon Steps Up Kindle Fire Manufacturing Orders

With pre-orders for Kindle Fire relentlessly pouring in, Amazon has reportedly stepped up orders for the tablets on Taiwanese manufacturers to over 5 million units, reports Digitimes.

Amazon's manufacturing partners in Taiwan include Wintek, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), LG Display, Ilitek, Quanta Computer, Aces Connectors and Wah Hong Industrial.

In the middle of the third quarter, Amazon had increased its initial 3.5 million unit order to 4 million units.

Kindle Fire will start shipping on November 15, and Amazon is hard at work adding to the list of apps that would be available in the Amazon AppStore on launch.

Kindle Fire runs a highly customized version of Android, requiring apps to be tweaked to run on it with optimized performance.

Apps expected to be available on launch include:

Netflix
Rhapsody
Pandora
Twitter
Comics by comiXology
Facebook
The Weather Channel
Allrecipes
Bloomberg
LinkedIn
Zillow
Pulse
The Cat in the Hat
Quickoffice Pro
Jamie's 20-Minute Meals
IMDb Movies & TV
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

Kindle Fire users will be able to download one paid application "free" every day.

The device will provide easy access to Amazon's over "18 million movies, TV shows, songs, books, magazines, apps and games" as well as free storage in the Amazon Cloud.

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