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Amazon to Fix Some Kindle Fire Problems

It’s supposed to make the balky touchscreen easier to navigate and let users erase recent activity

In the next two weeks Amazon said Monday that it's going to update the software in its $199 Kindle Fire over-the-air to address buyer complaints about the performance of the vaunted seven-inch Android tablet.

It's supposed to make the balky touchscreen easier to navigate and let users erase recent activity as well as choose what items are displayed.

If that's all, it won't address all the gripes including scrolling, Wi-Fi and Internet access and stodgy apps. Some of the widgets have reportedly been returned.

TechCrunch says the Fire is just fine inside Amazon's "walled garden."

Just weeks old Amazon calls the widget the most successful product it has ever introduced. Estimates say Amazon could sell three million-five million of the things this quarter.

Amazon abandoned some of its usual reserve about numbers Thursday, maybe because of the flak it's gotten over the Kindle Fire's imperfection, and said that Kindles, that's all Kindles, are moving at the rate of over a million a week and that's been going on for three weeks.

Fire, on sale since mid-November, is apparently leading the $70-$199 pack and on the increase week-over-week.

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