High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com`s Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire has a color 7" multi-touch display with IPS technology and runs a forked version of Google`s Android operating system. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle`s e-books. It was scheduled to be released in the US on November 15, 2011, but was released a day earlier, on November 14.