A credit union mobile app for the new Kindle Fire electronic tablet will be released soon by CU Mobile Apps, a startup provider of mobile apps for Android and iPhone devices.

Amazon released the $199 tablet last month and said it expects to sell more than 5 million of them this year alone, presenting an opportunity for credit unions to serve consumer anxious to do their banking on the Android-powered devices, said Tom Gray, a partner in CU Mobile Apps' parent firm, Member Service Solutions LLC of Franklin, Tenn.

The Kindle Fire-supporting application is a first in the industry, Gray said, and was produced by Crash Bang Studios LLC of Tampa, Fla., which also engineered the Tennessee company's apps launched this past summer.  

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