Amazon Kindle Fire: Top Five New Kindle Fire Competitors from CES

Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet has shown tablet makers the way to beat the iPad is to make sure your device is less than half the price of the tablet king. If the price is no more than $300 and it runs at least a recent version of the Android system, buyers might be inclined to go for it. Kindle Fire sold millions of units during the holiday season, and now it has become a target itself. Tablet makers are scrambling to match the reduced price/feature-rich label the Kindle Fire offers, and the International Comsumer Electronics Show was the place to find them.

Every year, the tech world descends on Las Vegas, NV for the three day show, and many tablets came out of the show with a promise to take on the new seven-inch tablet king. One of them is the long awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7, a device announced many months ago and preceded by four other Galaxy Tab sizes. While the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is slightly bigger and likely more expensive, it did debut at CES, and will compete with Kindle Fire because it is a Samsung (ie, a household name). Start the slideshow to see the Kindle Fire's newest competition from CES. Tell us in the comments if you are a tablet connoisseur.

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The Galaxy Tab is the first tablet with Samsung's Super AMOLED Plus display technology, and it adds to the 1280x800p resolution display by making colors more vibrant and contrasts more pronounced. The 7.7 has a 1.4GHz processor, full gigabyte of memory, up to 64 GB of storage and an expandable memory card slot that can add up to 32 more gigabytes of storage. It even supports voice calls so you can take phone calls without bluteooth. No pricing or availability listed yet.

Like many devices from CES, the pricing and availability is yet to be known, but the S2 7 will come with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, Android 3.0 and 1280x800p resolution. Lenovo also tends to not add too much of its own software on top of the Android system, so it will be more of a pure Google device.

This is an eight-inch device, but it looks solid on account of its five megapixel rear-facing camera and 1.5GHz dual-core processor. AT&T will begin selling this Jan. 22 for $300 on contract.

The ViewPad E70 will arrive in March for just $170 and it will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich installed. It features a 1GHz CPU, four gigabytes of internal storage and micro-HDMI port.

The SuperNova 8 is only $230, but the display is not quite as good as the others in this list. At least it has a micro-HDMI port so you can hook it up to your HDTV to watch movies. It also has Android 2.3, four gigabytes of storage and microSD card slot (expandable up to 32 GB).