Amazon's Kimdle Fire tablet might be a knowingly sub-par device meant to have a Nook Color competitor on shelves before its real iteration arrives. After reportedly bypassing its own Lab 126 hardware team, the company reportedly had to make a number of sacrifices that led to a "pretty poor" Android tablet that was just a "stopgap" for the holidays, gdgt co-founder Ryan Block understood. With the BlackBerry PlayBook from Amazon's manufacturing partner Quanta as the template, the project ran into trouble and hand to use a slower chip, among other limits.
