I just got off the phone with Amazon Customer Service....

[sushiguy732]

I asked the following questions regarding the 8.9" and I will also list their answers.
Q: What is the expected battery life?
A: It is on par with the 7" as it has been scaled accordingly. About 11 hours with WiFi turned off and about 7 - 8 with it on.

Q: Which version of Android is it running?
A: 4.0 ICS and it is possible they will update it to JB but not at this time.

Q: When you say HD camera, what are the actual specs?
A: 1MP. They feel since this is just for video chat, this is more than enough

 

[TheMTtakeover]

I asked the following questions regarding the 8.9" and I will also list their answers.
Q: Which version of Android is it running?
A: 4.0 ICS and it is possible they will update it to JB but not at this time.

Very interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing that. I was dissapointed the orginal fire never got updated. and when I say up dated I don't mean Amazon OS , I mean another version of Andriod.