LEAKED SALES DATA SHOWS AMAZON HAS SOLD OVER 250,000 FIRES IN FIVE DAYS

According to some leaked internal sales data Amazon has sold over 250,000 Kindle Fires in just five days. When put in comparison with iPad sales per day, the Fire is still lagging behind, 80,000 for the iPad and ~50,000 for the Fire. That's not bad, but when you look at sales for non-iPad tablets the Fire is uh...on fire!

On the e-reader front however things are not as rosy. The Kindle Touch has only sold about 32,000 units in the same five day period as the Fire. There could be a few reasons for this. The Fire could be cannabalizing the Touch's sales and/or the Kobe and Nook Color have already locked up the advanced feature e-reader market.

PERFECT BROWSER NOW THE PERFECT BROWSER ON iPAD

The Perfect browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips.

Perfect browser is one of the most feature-filled ones out there, adding features you probably miss from desktop browsing, like tabs, hyper or automated scrolling, session saving, popup blocking, and more. What's even better, is that it also adds features designed to compliment the iPad's touch screen (like a wide range of gestures that cycle through your tabs, browser history, and even toggle a fullscreen mode). On top of all that is a handy user agent switcher, for those times when your device refuses to cooperate and show you the desktop version of a web page.

The Perfect browser can be yours for the low price of $2.99 for the iPad and $0.99 for the iPhone or iPod Touch. [Gizmodo]

APPLE iOS 4.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Fire up that iPod Touch or iPhone, hook it up and head over to iTunes and get your very own copy of iOS 4.1

MICROSOFT ANNOUCES ARC MOUSE

In a probably poor marketing move, in light of the Apple event and announcements, Microsoft officially announced the Arc Touch mouse.  According to Microsoft: "The Arc Touch Mouse [is] the first mouse designed to flatten for portability and pop up for comfort. The new mouse features Microsoft’s first touch scroll strip for easy navigation — just move a finger slowly for controlled scrolling or flick for hyperfast scrolling. Windows-based PC users will love packing up their laptop bags without the added bump of a mouse, as the Arc Touch Mouse flattens with just the touch of a finger.”

Pricing will be at $69.99 with pre-orders available at Amazon.com, Buy.com and BestBuy.com.  Shipping will be in early December.

APPLE ROUNDUP

Apple made some pretty big announcements today at their annual fall event, centered around media.  Some of the items have been leaked and/or rumored to appear at the event while others were surprises.  A full list of the announced items is below.

Apple TV

Apple TV:
The new Apple TV will be streaming only.  At a quarter of the size of the original it will pack a built-in power supply, HDMI, ethernet and 802.11n.  Pricing will be just$99.  It will stream movies from iTunes (more on that later) or from your own computer, bypassing local storage.  Not much change in the interface, however there is an inclusion of Rotten Tomatoes ratings.

iTunes:

iTunes Logo

iTunes 10 has a new logo and some nice new features.  There is a new social network called Ping.  Ping is built into the iTunes store and you can see the recent activity of your friends and artists you may be following.  Some of the new features in iTunes 10 include album art appearing if you have 5+ songs listed, streaming content to your Apple TV, $1 TV and $5 movie rentals.

iPod Nano:

iPod Nano

The Nano has had a major facelift.  The wheel has disappeared and it has a new touch interface.  The unit is 46% smaller and 42% lighter than its predecessor.  It has buttons for volume, a FM radio, Voiceover, Nike+ support, and a pedometer all with a 24 hour battery.  The new OS allows the user to poke around with their fingers and there is a home screen which you can populate with your most used items, which can be rearranged, just like on iOS devices. $149 for 8GB and $179 for 16GB.

iPod Shuffle

iPod Shuffle:
Despite the iPod Shuffles small form factor, it's buttons have returned and it boasts 15 hour battery life.  $49 for 2GB.

iOS 4.1:

iOS 4.1

Apple will be releasing an update to the iOS 4, used in their iOS devices like iPhone, iPod and iPad.  Some of the highlights in the 4.1 are HDR photos, proximity sensor fix and Game Center support.

iPod Touch:

The new iPod Touch is an iPhone 4 without the phone part.  It will have the 326ppi Retina display, Apple A4 processor, gyroscope and digital cameras on the back and front for FaceTime.  It can record video in 720p, edit them with iMovie app and take photos with the back camera.  The playback time has been increased to 40 minutes and will come with iOS 4.1.

HDR Photos:
What are HDR photos that iOS 4.1 will allow?  HDR stands for High Dynamic Range - the range between the lightest and darkest ranges of an image.  They look more similiar to what your eyes see than regular photos.  HDR photos are made of several photos, by blending photos with different exposures to make more dynamic scenes.  Steve Jobs states the iPhone and iPod Touch will shoot real HDR photos vs. ones manipulated with software, ie the device will take a number of photos when the user clicks the button to create the HDR photo.