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#1 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#1 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Reading view in the Silk Web browser makes reading Web sites a clutter-free experience.
#2 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#2 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Book extras from Shelfari are just little sidebars of background info about different subjects that come up in whatever you happen to be reading. It's good for digging just below the surface of a subject you are less familiar with.
#3 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#3 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

In-book sharing make it easy to share bits of what you're reading without leaving going to another app.
#4 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#4 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Store personal documents in Amazon's cloud.
#5 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#5 Kindle Fire - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Print-replica textbooks is kind of the opposite of the reading view feature. It preserves the print-version look of a textbook for viewing on a screen.
#6 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#6 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Stability improvements are part of the Android 4.0.4 update.
#7 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#7 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Improved phone number recognition.
#8 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#8 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Smoother screen rotation.
#9 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4
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#9 Motorola Xoom - Amazon Kindle Fire New Version 6.5 vs Motorola Xoom Ice Cream Sandwich Version 4.0.4

Better camera performance.

Two popular tablets are getting new software updates during the final days of March, and the Amazon Kindle Fire 6.5 and Motorola Xoom both have some new features to show for it. While both tablets have their limitations, they are both in a good price range, and the new update could be just what nudges them over the line for some buyers.

At just $200, the Kindle Fire has a good mix of features and portability that have made it the only real hot-selling tablet besides the iPad. While the Xoom is still $400, it's still one of the only tablets to be powered by the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich system. The new Android 4.0.4 may just, um, sweeten the deal. We put together a few slides with brief descriptions of the new updates, so let us know if they combine with these tablets' features to make a compelling package or not.

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