![]() For more about that and some info about the features called X Ray and Whispersync, you’ve got the full video review below. In comparison Google offers on Android 600k apps and they also offer 4 million books, while Amazon only has 850k. E-Reading is the strong point of the device, with tons of tweaks and options for the fonts, brightness, background, font size, edges and various other inputs.Īmazon offers 120k movies and TV shows, plus 20 million songs and 50k apps. We’ve also got email and contacts available, in a pretty simple and pleasant interface. If you want to do away with them, just pay $15 and they’re gone. The lockscreen ads are also here, but they didn’t bother me at all. The web browser is an evolved version of Silk, that still feels painfully slow and crippled by lag. The main sections of the device as shown above the carousel and they include the Shop, Games, Apps, Books, Music, Photos and Docs. Below that we’ve got related content, depending on each highlighted item. We’ve got a notification area that leads to settings and the famous Carousel with the latest used content, including books, songs, movies, magazines and apps. The Dolby Digital Plus technology works just find and the experience is very loud, while also not distorting any of the sound.Īs far as software is concerned, Android 4.0 ICS is the name of the game, with the Amazon experience on top. On the audio side we’ve got very, very powerful speakers, that can handle both a heavy dubstep bass and an acoustic guitar ballad without problems. ![]() It has less glare problems than many other tablets. The device acts great in sunlight, so at least that’s a plus. This is lower than the first Kindle Fire, but higher than the Nexus 7. Moving on to the multimedia performance analysis, what we get here are good colors, great view angles and 436 lux units when it comes to brightness of video playback. The battery inside is supposed to offer 11 hours of functioning time, according to Amazon, but for us it only reached 7-8 hours, so it’s around the same performance as the Nexus 7 in this field. The good thing here is the presence of a micro HDMI port and we should probably mention the usual frustration regarding the lack of a charger bundled with the device.Ĭontinuing the specs list, the Amazon Kindle Fire HD offers an accelerometer, gyroscope, dual WiFi antennas with 40% Faster connectivity (Mimo) and dual band WiFi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz). We also get 1 GB Of RAM, which is in fact about 700 MB, plus 16 GB of storage and a front 1.3 megapixel camera. As far as hardware goes, the Kindle Fire HD proposes a 7 inch display with a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution, a 216 ppi IPS LCD screen and under the hood we’ve got a TI OMAP 4460 processor, a dual core 1.2 GHz unit, an ARM Cortex A9 actually with a PowerVR SGX 540 GPU. We also get a front camera, that’s not at all integrated discretely. At least, the grip is OK and the speakers at the back look kind of elegant, but only kind of… The device’s design really disappointed me, with its big edges, creaking case and the fact that you CAN NOT feel the physical buttons, not at all. It’s actually 50 grams heavier than the Nexus 7, in case you’re wondering, and quite a bit heavier than the iPad Mini. The design of the device involves a 10.3 mm waistline and a weight of 395 grams, that because of the compact nature of the slate feels more heavy than it is. Having a HDMI socket means I can stream catchup TV to my Kindle and watch it on my TV when there is nothing on. I also use it to catch up on the latest news I have attached the kindle to my PC and downloaded some youtube videos ,movies and MP3s which I can watch on the move or in bed. The Kindle is quite quick when surfing and streams video perfectly from youtube etc. It doesn't have memory expansion but I was lucky enough to get a Kindle with 32Gb built in and frankly I cannot see myself running out of memory any time soon. Lightweight compact, easy to use, Excellent value for moneyĪlthough this an an early 2nd generation Kindle I think it still has some useful advantages over some of the later models for instance this 2nd gen kindle HD has a mini-HDMI socket so you can watch your movies and pictures on a PC monitor or your TV.
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