Kindle fire Review| Booredatwork
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The Amazon Kindle Fire has coming in to shake up the tablet arena. Amazon feel they have the right combination with its product and services to create something that will define an era and Christmas of 2011. So let take a look at the Kindle fire to see what this $200 Android 2.3 Tablet offering brings to the table that is so disruptive.
Hardware
The Kindle Fire has a 7-inch IPS display with Gorilla glass coating, weighs approximately 14.6 ounces, its got 8 Gb of storage (actually 6GB), with unlimited cloud storage. It is a Wi-Fi capable tablet, no Bluetooth or 3G.The first thing you will notice about the Kindle Fire is the lack of physical button anywhere on the device, its got one and that is the power button, The whole system is enclosed, so the battery is not removable, there are no cameras in the front or in the rear. An Initial Look at the amazon UX; it very simple everything is in front of you, You have got one home screen and it is easy to access all aspect of the device. It's a very streamline approach from what you have on most Android tablets. More here in our Unboxing & First Impressions
Kindle Fire OS & Browser
The first thing you will notice with the Kindle Fire once you turn it on is the singular home screen, with a notification bar on top that slides down when tapped on the right to reveal your volume, brightness Wi-Fi, Sync and setting controls; as well as quick music controls. Tapping on the upper left hand corner which shows your name when a number is highlighted bring sup your download notification screen. Below the notification bar is your search bar and category row. You can search within the device as well as the web. Your categories are broken down to Newsstand, Books, Music, Video, Docs, Apps (Amazon App store not Android app Store), Web( Silk Browser). More here in our OS Walkthrough.
Conclusion
The Kindle Fire is what you would call, the amalgamation of the Tablet era. It is not without its flaws which are obvious. For the sometimes unresponsiveness, dude to its 512MB of ram to the lack of an external storage source to expand on the 8GB internal memory( though you do have unlimited cloud storage). I still found myself drown to the Kindle Fire, which might be due to Amazon's simplification of Android 2.3 and the combined effectiveness from Amazon's cloud services that all for my VOD to play within seconds and the easy access of all my music stored in the cloud was also very helpful. So may say it has many issues that keep it away from being the iPad killer
In all the Kindle Fire is a flawed device like any other. What Amazon has created is a beat of a different styling, one that is a true merging of services and product, better than what Apple has to offer and simpler too. Which is key. The Kindle Fire is a grown up Kindle and does pretend to be a killer tablet. What it is; is a gateway device in providing Amazon Video, music, books and other service on a Tablet platform under Android with the ease of use.