I'd buy a Fire today, but I'm waiting for HP to ship me touchpads sometime in the next year. They fired up the Chinese sweatshop to build a few more for all of the orders outstanding. I'll hold out for them since it's 32GB vs. 8GB on the Fire. Also no volume control on the Fire. Rumor is that Amazon is going to buy WebOS, but no idea if they'll keep it going or just poach the engineers.