The kindle fire is here and is definitely hot on many people's lists this year. Especially for Santa, girlfriends, boyfriends, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives and many more to numerious to mention that have been told what they should give or get as a present this holiday season.

How do we know this? from the simple fact that the kindle has been voted number one best selling item on Amazon for the last number of years and continuous to be to this day. Just read up about the kindle on any of the latest bulletins and you will understand what I mean.

Amazon knew they had a good thing going and that is the reason they brought out four new kindles this year.

1) The kindle fire, which a lot of people are saying is Amazons answer to the apple iPad and which I disagree with totally, because the iPad is in a different class altogether. The kindle fire 2011 cannot compete except on price.

The apple iPad costs around $500 and does a lot more, the kindle fire cost $199 and is great value for what it can do, but cannot be compared to the iPad.

2) The kindle touch 3g is amazons new e-reader and works on 3g and has a touch screen which replaces their other models that had button controls.

3) The kindle touch which is the same unit, except it operates on Wi- Fi instead of 3g. This model costs $99 and the 3g model costs $149.

4) There is also the new basic kindle reader and that retails for $79. Great value for an e-reader compared to what they cost when I bought mine.

The kindle fire is not just an e-reader, you can download a lot more than ebooks with this model. The new kindle fire 2011 has a full color 7" multi-touch display and you can download millions of movies, apps, games, music. magazines and lots more.

There are a few things I would have liked it to have, like 3g, gps, maps and some more, but then I guess it would have cost a lot more then $199.

The kindle fire is new and future models will have more built-in items, but for now I like what you get for $199 and it is still one of the most sought after presents this holiday season.

No one ever said it was without it's faults and sure there is a lot of room to improve, but as I said this is the first of the amazon kindle fire, so I will be happy to use this one, due to it's price and how well it performs. Next one who knows what extras it will have?