Amazon could ship 1.2 million tablets this year

The Amazon Android tablets are almost definitely coming soon and a new report from DigiTimes suggests that the company is preparing to have 1.2 million tablets ready by the third quarter. This would put it behind only one other tablet maker: Apple. DigiTimes has been hit or miss with these types of things before but it generally is spot on with supplier information. The report said:

Among orders from non-iPad vendors, those from Amazon are said to be the most positive, with demand for touch panels likely to reach two million units for the August-September period, the sources indicated, noting that shipments of tablet PCs to Amazon are expected to reach 1-1.2 million units by a conservative estimate in the third quarter.

The Amazon Android tablets are still pretty much under wraps but a few things seem certain: it will run Android and it should be powered by the NVIDIA Tegra processors. We have heard reports that this portfolio will include a 10-inch tablet that will rock the upcoming quad-coreKal-El chip and the 7-inch tablet should have the dual-core Tegra 2 chipset. The smaller one could possibly be branded with the Kindle label but I am not sure on that one.