Kindle Fire Review
Amazon Kindle Fire Review
The new Amazon Kindle Fire comes with a 7-inch IPS LCD gorilla glass display with 16 million colours. There are rumour before that the new Kindle Fire will be a 10-inch tablet, but don’t write off this option until 2012.
The screen of Kindle Fire is 30 times tougher then plastic with high resolution of 169 pixels per inch (ppi) – that’s more than the 132ppi iPad 2 display.
Amazon Kindle Fire processor
The processor being used by Kindle Fire is known as Texas Instruments ARM-based dual-core OMAP CPU, its performance should be exciting as compared with other tablets in market.
Amazon Kindle Fire interface
The new Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet is running a special version of Google’s Android OS – but it is not based on Honeycomb 3.0, but an early version of Android 2.x There are multitasking as one would expect from Android.
The UI shuns Android Market for the benefit of an Amazon-centric experience around Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Drive.
The upper portion of the display shows your name, while a search bar and buttons for kiosks, music videos, books, documents, applications and Web browsers. Below the nav there is a “shelf” for your “most read” videos, books and magazines – it’s all in a Cover Flow style.
You will be able to find full-color magazines on the device.
Amazon Kindle Fire App
The browser is called Silk Amazon – it uses Amazon EC2 compute cluster. Presumably this means Amazon will reduce enormous computational performance (compression) and bandwidth requirements on the equipment and to employ a greater processing in the cloud. A bit like Opera compression tech.
Incredibly, Silk learns your browsing habits and pre-loads the pages you read most.
It is a tablet-optimized shopping app on board – this is to simplify and streamline include pages, so it’s easier to buy stuff on Amazon than the actual site.
There will be a number of applications on the device, including Pandora (USA), Twitter, Facebook and Netflix (U.S.) accessible.
Amazon Kindle Fire connectivity and storage
The new Kindle Fire equip with Wi-Fi but no 3G. There is also no camera or microphone. Amazon launches certainly a bigger, better model with these extensions after Christmas.
There are only 8 GB of storage on the device. there is a limit to how much content you can save.
There are no physical controls on the front of the machine – everything is touch based. Amazon has also provided for the fire lighting features “no cable” clock signals – such as the one from Apple for iOS 5 Planning.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Whispersync
There’s full integration with Amazon’s Whispersync tech. As you read a book on any Kindle device or app, your current place is synchronised across all your devices. The same will happen with movies and TV shows now too.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said at the launch: “Customers love Whispersync — so we thought you know what people would really like? What if Whispersync also worked with movies and TV shows? Well it does.
“When you get home, switch to your big screen TV. Your movie will be right where you left it.
Amazon Kindle Fire weight
The weight of the Kindle Fire is 14.6 oz – 413g. Amazon says that Kindle Fire is “small and light enough to hold in just one hand and carry everywhere you go”.
Amazon Kindle Fire music, video and books
Amazon Kindle Fire can retrieve any content from Amazon (so that MP3 and video streaming, though not in Britain, unless it is known, covers) are offered.
Amazon has said that the fire kindles have access to 100,000 movies and TV shows, 17 million songs, Kindle books and “hundreds” of magazines and newspapers. Amazon Prime members will enjoy immediate, unrestricted commercial free streaming of more than 11,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost. Kindle fire with a free month of Amazon Prime.
There will also be free Amazon Cloud Storage. So that means you’ll be able to rekindle a movie on Kindle and fire them on your TV.
There are also more than 100 exclusive graphic novels including Watchmen, the best-seller – and considered by many to be the largest – Graphic Novel of all time, never before available in digital form, as well as Batman: Arkham City, Superman: Earth OneGreen Lantern : Secret Origin, and 96 others from DC Entertainment.
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