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The editors liked
The Amazon interface adds additional features to Android. Instead of access to the Google Play store
You get access to Amazon's own content shops
Filled with apps
Games
Music
Movies and TV Shows. As Android users will know
There's an awful lot of ju
The 7-inch screen on the Kindle Fire is impressive. It's sharp enough to do justice to web pages and photographs
And it also offers decent viewing angles. The Kindle Fire's web browser is more than capable
And everything responds at a decent pace. We managed to get 7-8 hours of runtime from a single charge. The Menus on the Kindle Fire are all laid out sensibly – the Fire runs a reskinned versi
Lovely 7-inch screen
Cracking video
Smooth UI
Solid build
Low price
Great price
Excellent custom UI
Price-defying build quality
Great new browser
ITunes-matching content
Surprising display quality
Incredible pricepoint
Intuitive
Innovative UI
Surprisingly good display
Very cheap asking price
Easy to use
Acceptable performance
The editors didn't like
As I mentioned above Amazon's own skin over the Android Operating System is also a bad thing as personally I find you cannot customise the device as much as some other tablets. Things like wallpapers
Widgets and arranging your own desktop to suit your ne
That's unfortunately where the good news ends. For a start
The Kindle Fire will not be coming to the UK – and is on sale in the US only. The Kindle Fire is also less capable than the standard Kindle when it comes to use as a regular eReader
With the display proving harder on the eye. The 8GB of storage space is limited
And there are virtually no features – from a camera
The Kindle Fire is a nice-looking tablet, and, at 200 bucks, Amazon is going to sell a shedload of them. Its flaws are well balanced by the low price, and it's a logical upgrade if you're already a Kindle owner and you want to buy videos, music and ap...
Abstract: A low price is earning Amazon's Kindle Fire a lot of press. We take a fine-tooth comb to this new tablet and turn up some surprising results. While there's a lot to like, there are also plenty of quirks. We go over the good, the bad, and the ugly. When...
Great price, Excellent custom UI, Price-defying build quality, Great new browser, iTunes-matching content, Surprising display quality
Poor quality speakers, Silk browser privacy concerns, No cameras, No mic, No GPS or Bluetooth, Performance niggles, No Android Market, Only 8GB storage, No expansion
The Amazon Kindle Fire lives up to the hype and delivers more. It's by no mean perfect and there's a laundry list of missing features, but at £125, it's better value for money than any Android tablet and a viable alternative to the iPad...
Published: 2011-11-14, Author: Chris , review by: reviewed.com
Abstract: The long-awaited Amazon Kindle Fire is here. With decent hardware that has some cost-cutting shortcuts, the Fire grants access to the wonderful media streaming platform of a tablet to buyers on a budget. In a race to the bottom for pricing on these machin...
Abstract: 29 September, 2011 by Gareth Halfacree Amazon has finally collapsed the waveform and declared its intentions to compete head-on with the likes of the iPad in the tablet market with the Kindle Fire, a new entry in the company's highly successful Kindle...
In many ways, the Amazon Kindle Fire isn't trying to beat the iPad or the Android-tablet masses at their own game. The Kindle Fire is doing its own thing, and going after a totally different audience. ...
Published: 2011-09-01, Author: Chris , review by: T3.com
Incredible pricepoint, Intuitive, innovative UI, Surprisingly good display
No Android Market, Slow performance, No UK availability
When reviewing the Amazon Kindle Fire we found ourselves constantly revisiting the price point and, with that firmly in mind, were probably willing to cut it more slack than we might have had it cost the same as the Motorola Xoom, or Samsung Galaxy Ta
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Published: 2012-10-04, Author: Andrew , review by: arstechnica.com
New $159 price undercuts $199 tablets like the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, No artificial software limitations relative to the Kindle Fire HD, Small hardware upgrades over last year's model, Cases and accessories made for the 2011 Kindle Fire will all be c
The Kindle Fire's design is looking and feeling ever-more chunky next to the Kindle Fire HD and Nexus 7, Amazon's Android skin is still a bit jerky and slow, and the Silk browser is still faster in Amazon's advertising than it is in real life, More and mo
As with last year's Kindle Fire, the first thing you have to consider with this year's model is the price. You've got to decide whether the $40 you save over the thinner, lighter, higher-resolution, more-capable Nexus 7 (or Kindle Fire HD, if you're a big...
