What You Should Know about The Kindle Fire
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012The Kindle Fire is a great option for people who want a tablet computer but don’t want the sticker shock of an iPad 2 or 3. Unlike the new iPad, the Kindle Fire doesn’t have many of the bells and whistles that makes the iPad 3 such a “wow” device. The Kindle Fire doesn’t have a camera, it doesn’t have a microphone and its storage capacity is only 8 GB – with no expansion slots.
What the Kindle Fire does offer is a relatively robust 7″ tablet at a price that’s unbeatable compared to others. For $199, users get access to all of Amazon’s library of magazines, books, music, movies and television shows, along with Android apps such as Pandora, Hulu, Netflix and others. Here are a few more details on the Kindle Fire.
Stealing Plays from the PlayBook? Design-wise, there’s nothing new to the Kindle Fire. In fact, it is remarkably similar in design to the Blackberry tablet, known as PlayBook. Like the PlayBook, it is 7″, sports a 1024 x 600p high-gloss display, has a soft-touch casing and weighs 0.9 lbs. Amazon competitor Barnes & Noble, who’s been desperately trying to catch up to the Kindle product line with their Nooks, accused Amazon of simply copying the PlayBook’s design.
One thing that may annoy users about the Kindle Fire is its lack of functional buttons. While few buttons makes for great design, the lack of useful buttons on the Kindle Fire also means that there’s no external volume button or home button. That means a lot of tapping in order to change simple things like the volume or getting back to the home screen.
Many tablet users, though, will be fond of the overall design of the Kindle Fire, especially when compared to other popular tablets, namely the iPad. Compared to the iPad, the Kindle Fire is feather-light and a very manageable size. Users that went from the Kindle Fire to the iPad remarked on how much bulkier the iPad seemed after getting used to the Fire.
More Like a Pick-Up than a race Car and unlike the new iPad 3, the Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t made for speed. Its dual-core CPU makes it up to 1 GHz, and it only has RAM at 512 MB. For WiFi, the Kindle Fire has an 802.11 b/g/n connection, but don’t look for any fancy Bluetooth feature or any 3G connections any time soon.
In other words, the Kindle Fire isn’t nearly as fast as the iPad 3, but its speed probably won’t be an issue for most users. For people who want to use the Kindle Fire just to watch Amazon’s movies and read Amazon books, the Fire will be fast enough. Bookworms Won’t Be Interrupted: One department where the Kindle Fire excels is battery life. Amazon claims that the Fire will provide 8 hours of continuous reading and, according to most reviewers, the device absolutely lives up to that claim.
In other words, for someone who wants to spend the whole day reading a new novel on their Kindle Fire, running out of battery life won’t be an issue. Many users may even be able to play with their Kindle Fires for days before having to worry about charging it back up. All in all, the Kindle Fire is a great tablet for the price. While it may not be as impressive in some regards as the new iPad, the Amazon Kindle Fire is a solid device that delivers on its promises.
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