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Read for Free with Amazon Prime
With the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, Kindle owners with Amazon
Prime can read up to a book a month for free, including all 7 Harry
Potter books.
Borrow Great Books for Free
Choose from over 145,000 books to borrow for free, including all 7
Harry Potter books in 5 languages, over 100 current and former New
York Times Best Sellers, and thousands of Amazon exclusives. New titles
are added daily.
No Waiting
Traditional libraries buy a certain number of copies of a specific title. If
all of those are checked out, you have to get on a waiting list where the
wait can be months for popular titles like Harry Potter. With the Kindle
Owners' Lending Library, there are no limits on how many people can
simultaneously borrow the same title - so you never have to wait in line
for the book you want.
No Due Dates
Keep your borrowed book as long as you like. With Kindle Owners'
Lending Library, there are no due dates or late fees.
Learn more about the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
Features
Stunning Color Touchscreen
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Movies, magazines and children's books come alive on a 7"
vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high
resolution. Kindle Fire uses IPS (in-plane switching) technology similar technology to that used on the iPad - for an extra-wide
viewing angle, perfect for sharing your screen with others.
Enjoy your favorite magazines with glossy, full-color layouts,
photographs and illustrations. Choose from hundreds of titles,
such as Popular Mechanics, Marie Claire, and Better Homes and
Gardens. Special editions of titles like Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ
come with built-in video, audio and other interactive features.
Beautifully Simple and Easy to Use
100,000 Movies and TV Shows
Designed from the ground up, Kindle Fire's simple, intuitive
interface puts the content you love at your fingertips - spin
effortlessly through your recent titles and websites straight from
the home screen. Whether you are in the mood to watch, read,
listen, play or browse, you can get to all your favorite content
with a single touch. It's that simple.
Over 100,000 movies and TV shows, including thousands of new
releases and your favorite TV shows, are available to stream or
download, purchase or rent - all just one tap away. Amazon Prime
members enjoy unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over
10,000 popular movies and TV shows.
Fast Dual-Core Processor
Your Favorite Apps and Games
Kindle Fire features a state-of-the-art dual-core processor for fast,
powerful performance. Stream music while browsing the web or
read books while downloading videos.
Thousands of the most popular apps, including Netflix, HBO GO,
Hulu Plus, Pandora, ESPN ScoreCenter, Comics by
comiXology and more, plus you'll get a great paid app for free
every day. Enjoy the best games, including Words with Friends,
Angry Birds, and Plants vs. Zombies, from top developers like
Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap, and Rovio. All apps are Amazontested on Kindle Fire for the best experience possible. Learn More
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Ultra-fast web browsing - Amazon Silk
Millions of Books
Amazon Silk is a revolutionary, cloud-accelerated browser that
uses a "split browser" architecture to leverage the computing
speed and power of the Amazon Web Services cloud. Supports
Adobe® Flash® Player. Learn why it's so fast.
Read bestsellers, children's books, comic books, and cookbooks in
vibrant color. The Kindle Store offers over 1 million books,
including 800,000 titles at $9.99 or less. In addition, over 2
million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available
such as Pride and Prejudice. Learn More
Free Cloud Storage
Your Favorite Children's Books
Forget about memory - Kindle Fire gives you free storage for all
your Amazon digital content in the Amazon Cloud. Your books,
movies, music and apps are available instantly to stream or
download for free, at a touch of your finger.
Kindle Fire is great for parents and kids. Stir your child's
imagination with over 1000 beautifully-illustrated children's
books, including favorites like Brown Bear, Curious George, and
Circus Ship.
Parental Controls
19 Million Songs
New - Protect your kids with new, easy-to-use Parental Controls.
Simply add a password in the settings menu to restrict access to
web browsing, content purchasing, or your Kindle Fire content
libraries.
Stream your music library from Amazon Cloud Player or download
to your device and listen offline. Looking for new music? Discover
over 19 million songs in the Amazon MP3 Store.
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Easy to hold in one hand
Kindle Owners' Lending Library
Designed to travel with you wherever you go. Small enough to fit
in your purse and light enough to hold in just one hand, Kindle
Fire is perfect for browsing, playing, reading and shopping on-thego.
With Prime, Kindle owners can read all 7 Harry Potter books in 5
languages for free - as frequently as a book a month, with no due
dates. Plus, choose from over 145,000 books, including over 100
current and former New York Times best sellers. Learn More
Extra Durable Display
Free Month of Amazon Prime
Our state-of-the art Kindle Fire display is chemically strengthened
to be 20 times stiffer and 30 times harder than plastic, making it
extra durable and resistant to accidental bumps and scrapes.
Experience the benefits that millions of Amazon Prime members
already enjoy, including unlimited, instant streaming of over
10,000 popular movies and TV shows, Free Two-Day Shipping on
millions of items, and now, access to over a hundred thousand
popular Kindle books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
If you haven't used Prime in the past, we'll automatically give you
a free month to try it out. Learn more
Amazon Whispersync
Email
Like Kindle e-readers, Kindle Fire uses Amazon's Whispersync
technology to automatically sync your library, last page read,
bookmarks, notes, and highlights across your devices. On Kindle
Fire, Whispersync extends to video. Start streaming a movie on
Kindle Fire, then pick up right where you left off on your TV avoid the frustration of having to find your spot. Learn more
Stay in touch using our built-in email app that gets your webmail
(Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL etc.) into a single inbox. Import
your messages and contact lists from other email accounts.
Additional email apps are available in our Amazon Appstore for
Android.
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Read Your Documents
Kindle makes it easy to take your documents with you. You can email documents - including Word, PDF and more - directly to your
Kindle so you can read them anytime, anywhere. You can also
send documents to your Kindle using Send to Kindle, available for
free download at www.amazon.com/sendtokindle.
Technical Details
Display
7" multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective
treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
Size (in inches)
7.5" x 4.7" x 0.45" (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).
Weight
14.6 ounces (413 grams).
System
Requirements
None, because it's wireless and doesn't require a computer.
On-device
Storage
8GB internal (approximately 6GB available for user content). That's enough for 80
apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
Cloud Storage
Free cloud storage for all Amazon content
Battery Life
Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless
off. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as web browsing and
downloading content.
Charge Time
Fully charges in approximately 4 hours via included U.S. power adapter. Also
supports charging from your computer via USB.
Wi-Fi
Connectivity
Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use 802.11b,
802.11g, 802.11n, or enterprise networks with support for WEP, WPA and WPA2
security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or
peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
USB Port
USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)
Audio
3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.
Content Formats
Supported
Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible
Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3,
MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Documentation
Quick Start Guide (included in box); Kindle Fire User's Guide (pre-installed on
device). Additional information available online.
Warranty and
Service
1-year limited warranty and service included. Optional 2-year Extended Warranty
available for U.S. customers sold separately. Use of Kindle is subject to the terms
found here.
Included in the
Box
Kindle Fire device, U.S. power adapter (supports 100-240V), and Quick Start
Guide.
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$379.00
$199.00
Free 3G
Wi-Fi
Connectivity
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Free 3G +
Wi-Fi
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Content
Millions of
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books, newspapers, books, newspapers, books, newspapers, books, newspapers, TV shows, apps,
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Amazon Silk
cloud-accelerated
browser
6" E Ink Pearl
6" E Ink Pearl
9.7" E Ink Pearl
7" Vibrant Color IPS
2 months
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3 weeks
8 hours continuous
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4GB on device for
3,000 books
4GB on device for
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4GB on device for
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8GB on device for
80 apps plus either
10 movies
or 800 songs
or 6,000 books
Display
6" E Ink Pearl
Battery Life,
Wireless Off
1 month
Storage
Over a thousand beautifully-illustrated children's books
2GB on device for
1,400 books
Plus free cloud
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out of space
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out of space
out of space
10.4" x 7.2"
x 0.38"
7.5" x 4.7"
x 0.45"
18.9 ounces
14.6 ounces
keyboard
multi-touch
Dimensions
6.5" x 4.5"
x 0.34"
6.8" x 4.7"
x 0.40"
7.5" x 4.8"
x 0.34"
Weight
5.98 ounces
7.5
ounces
7.8
ounces
8.5
ounces
8.7
ounces
Interface
5-way controller
multi-touch
keyboard
Amazon Silk
Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated "Split Browser"
Modern websites
are complex. A
typical web page
requires 80 files
served from 13
different domains.
This takes a
regular browser
hundreds of round
trips, and adds to
page load times.
Your favorite apps and games: Angry Birds, Plants vs.
Zombies, and more
Amazon Silk is
different in a
radical new way.
We've rebuilt the
browser software
to push pieces of the computation into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This lets Silk do
more work, more quickly, and all at once. We call this "split browser" architecture. Silk browser
software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon
Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Shorter Transit Times
Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the Internet where round-trip latency is
shorter than what’s typical over wireless connections. Because AWS also has relationships with
major internet service providers, and many top sites are hosted on EC2, many web requests will
never leave the extended infrastructure of AWS, reducing transit times to only a few
milliseconds.
Computing Power in the Cloud
Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a
website simultaneously, and delivers them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream. Transferring
computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life.
Page Indexes & Machine Learning
As Silk serves up millions of page views every day, it learns more about the sites and pages it
renders, and by observing aggregate traffic patterns, it can infer where users might go next. For
example, Silk might observe that 85 percent of visitors to a leading news site click on that site’s
top headline. With that knowledge, the browser makes intelligent decisions about pre-pushing
popular content to the Kindle Fire, making commonly-visited pages available even faster.
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NEW — Reading View
Engaging online content is often surrounded by a host of related links, advertisements, and other
competing material. With Reading View for Silk, content is elevated above the clutter. When
Reading View is invoked, Silk loads the body of the page in a reading-optimized, single screen
view – even for multi-page articles. The full page is still available in the background, allowing
readers to easily toggle back to a traditional view to see other interesting features on the page.
Hear more from the creators of Amazon Silk or go to frequently-asked questions.
30 Rock Artwork and Packaging: Copyright 2012 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. Celebrity
Endorsement Not Implied. 30 Rock is available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video.
Websites, magazines, and bestsellers in vibrant color
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“ I also love that with my Prime Membership I can "borrow" one book a month and watch the streaming free
movies/television shows that are included in the Prime deal. ”
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Most Recent Customer Reviews
26,489 of 27,193 people found the following review helpful
kindle fire
great product though still has bugs needs work
fun to play with and kill time. what is mifi and will
this help pick up in places that i can't get this to
work?
A great device WHEN you consider price and function, with a few flaws
November 14, 2011
By Scott
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TOP 10 REVIEWER
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The first and most important thing that should be said about the Kindle Fire is that this is not an "iPadkiller." It is not designed to be. I have seen so many articles and comments comparing this to the iPad,
and surveys where people are asked if they will be buying a Kindle Fire over an iPad this Christmas. If
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and surveys where people are asked if they will be buying a Kindle Fire over an iPad this Christmas. If
you are expecting an iPad, or even a tablet, you will be disappointed. The main purpose of this device is
to deliver Amazon content to you more effectively. It is designed for consumption, not creation. That is the
reason it is so cheap and why Amazon is taking a loss on it. They are hoping to make up for that loss
through sales of videos, music, books, and apps through Amazon's Web Services. You can also use it to
view your own movies and media, but will find that it is more limited in that way than a regular tablet.
Personally, as someone who has ordered several rentals from Amazon Video, and had to contact
customer support for every single one of them due to problems with Amazon's Unbox player or purchases
not appearing in my downloads, I can really appreciate this. But if you don't plan on using Amazon at all
to obtain your media, you may want to take this into consideration before purchasing the Fire.
Additionally, the reason this product is so hyped, and one of the reasons I like it so much, is due to the
ridiculously low price. Amazon reviews shouldn't focus on price, but it is hard not to with this device. On
price alone, this is a five star device. However when looked at the Fire overall, and when compared with
other touch devices (what little there is to compare it to), I have to give it four stars, since there are a few
areas I feel could use definite improvement.
FORM FACTOR - The Kindle Fire feels almost the same in my hand as my 3rd generation Kindle but it is
a bit heavier. It might be difficult to hold it one handed and read a book for an hour or watch a movie.
You're going to need to rest it on something. The display is made of Gorilla Glass, which is a highly
damage-resistant. You can still crack it, but I have used a phone with Gorilla Glass for two years on it and
it has zero scratches on it despite being kept daily in my pocket with my keys. The back of the tablet is
rubberized, so it won't slide around and won't get scratched easily. It also feels good in my hand. Despite
all the companies that will be selling them, I do not think you need a screen protector. I have scratched
Gorilla Glass before, but it is very difficult to do.
CONNECTIONS/STORAGE - On the bottom are a headphone port (which will accept external speakers),
micro-USB (for charging and file transfer), and power button. The Fire doesn't come with an SD card slot,
with good reason. As mentioned, Amazon wants you to get content directly from them. It also reduces the
production costs. You can transfer your own content to the device through the USB connection from your
home computer. The Fire comes with 8Gb of storage, which is enough to hold about 8 downloaded
movies, 80 apps, 800 songs, or 6,000 books. I filled mine up right away so I never checked it out of the
box, but apparently it is closer to 6.5Gb as the OS is going to take up some of this. You have to really
become adept at managing your content through the Cloud. Books won't take up much room, but
magazines are around 250Mb and movies are a little under 1 Gb. Free videos available through Amazon
Prime cannot be downloaded, only streamed. So unless you buy a movie from Amazon or transfer one of
your own, you must be connected through a wi-fi connection in order to watch your movie.
AMAZON CLOUD - If you have not tried out the Amazon Cloud Drive, you will be pleasantly surprised.
You get 5Gb (which they will probably increase in the near future) of free online storage to store anything
you want, and you can access it from anywhere. This combines very nicely with the Fire. 5Gb isn't much
for my collection, so I upgraded to a higher plan (rates are $1 per extra gigabyte per year). I can upload a
playlist to it and listen to it on my home computer, then when I get to work the Fire can access it and pick
it up where I left off. Any songs you get from Amazon Mp3 are automatically stored on the Cloud and
don't contribute to the 5Gb storage space.
E-READER - This was going to be the big determination in whether I should get a Fire or the new Kindle
Touch. Ultimately I ended up getting both since I prefer the E-Ink technology to the backlit display of the
Fire. If you are the type of person who reads a lot and expect to spend at least 50% of your use on
reading books, I don't think you will be satisfied with the Fire over your Kindle 3 or the Kindle Touch, WiFi, 6" E Ink Display - includes Special Offers & Sponsored Screensavers. It just isn't the same, and after
hours of reading, the display would make my eyes hurt a bit (just like with any tablet). However it is nice
not to have to use a lighted cover to see my books in the dark. The Kindle Fire is difficult to read in bright
sunlight or on the beach. The touch navigation is very nice, but it doesn't function as nicely or quickly as it
does on the iPad or even the Kindle Touch. This can be a problem for me, and the main reason I am
using the Kindle Touch for reading books. Additionally, the Fire doesn't support real page numbers, even
though the Touch does. So you have to use that ridiculous "location 121 of 16077 - 2%" format. A year of
that with my last Kindle and I still don't understand what that means. They need to fix this in an update.
Being able to touch a word and have it bring up the dictionary is incredibly convenient and takes less than
2 seconds. But still, the Kindle Touch handily beats the Fire for reading.
MAGAZINES - The Kindle Fire can also handle magazines, however the display is just too small to be an
enjoyable reading experience. I tried out several different magazines, and the main problem I had was
with the formatting. I tried to read an issue of Bon Appetit and my eyes were straining after three pages.
There is no way to read a single article without zooming. The Fire handles magazines two ways: with
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More Dislikes Than Likes
Beautiful color and size as well as talented;
however, it is not an iPad. My dislikes are very
distracting so I'll cover them quickly. Read more
Published 1 hour ago by JGA
Kindle Fire
Love it! Display is crisp and clear screen is easy
to navigate. I like the different options for reading
including font style and size. Read more
Published 2 hours ago by lovestoread
Poor Firefox Interaction.
I have a Fire and it works OK. I can use it to do
just about everything that I need to do. However,
it will not allow me to access my Comcast emails
via Firefox and it will not... Read more
Published 3 hours ago by Pfeffdog
Kindle Fire is a very good device.
I love my kindle fire, it is a very good device.
Easy to download and read books and
documents on. Also easy to install apps.
I recommend this device to anyone.
Published 6 hours ago by Mark W. Giles
GLARE!
Would give this tablet a 4 out of 5 if it wasn't for
the awful glare during the day.. and im not
talking about outside im talking about just using
the tablet in your home during... Read more
Published 6 hours ago by JUSTIN
Great for Reading!
The Fire is great for reading! It is easy to adjust
the display from light to dark or from bright to
dim. The processor on the Fire is not as fast as I
thought it was. Read more
Published 7 hours ago by Lb9er11
Is this the tablet for you?
Amazon's Kindle Fire has a price that is tough to
beat. The $199 price point should raise a few
eyebrows and conjure up a healthy dose of
skepticism. Read more
Published 8 hours ago by T. A. Daniel
LOVE IT...LOVE IT......LOVE IT
I received my KF as a Christmas gift. It is the
best gift EVER. No, it cannot do some of the
things that the higher-priced competitor's product
does, but this has gone above and... Read more
Published 9 hours ago by LME
I love my Kindel Fire,hands
down!!!
I have tried almost every tablet out there and
been very disapointed even the iPad 3, hands
down Kindel Fire is the very best, it is so easy to
used. Read more
Published 9 hours ago by Guuadalupe Soto
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There is no way to read a single article without zooming. The Fire handles magazines two ways: with
Page View, which shows the original magazine display, and with Text View, which attempts to just
provide the text of the article. A lot of magazines these days have several things going on in one page,
with multiple columns, little sidebars and boxes everywhere, etc. I couldn't view a lot of this without
zooming, the text is just too small. So Page View did not work very well for magazines like this. It is
especially tough with magazines like Entertainment Weekly, Men's Health, GQ, etc. I found magazines
like that unreadable on the 7" display. Magazines that focused mostly on the article, like Nature, Wired,
etc, were handled much better. Some magazines even come integrated with embedded video and audio,
which is a very nice feature, and one I can see being very useful for things like Men's Health, but I haven't
had as much of a chance to use it yet. Text View is a very nice feature that works mostly well, but seems
to get a bit confused with magazines that have complicated formatting, so it pretty much defeats the
purpose since those are the ones I need it for the most.
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COMIC READER - This is one of the main reasons I purchased the Fire. Amazon has a fairly extensive
collection of comic books available for the Fire, including an exclusive deal with DC to publish many of
their books. In addition to a proprietary comic reader that comes on the Fire, Amazon also has a Comics
by ComiXology app available to purchase issues and subscriptions through. Although I initially thought
the 7" display would be too small, it is actually decent enough to serve as a comic reader. I would
definitely prefer a 10" version if they came out with one in the future. A 10" tablet is still the way to go for
comics, but if you're looking for a cheaper option and portability, the Fire isn't too bad, and definitely beats
a smart phone. It has a "panel by panel" feature that lets you scroll through the issue by different panels,
which it will then zoom in on. You tap the panel when done, and it moves to the next panel. This is great
for getting a larger view and working around the size restriction, especially since some of the text in the
comics is just too small to read. Although it is fairly decent, if you are considering the Fire just for comic
books, and you are a Marvel fan, you may want to hold off and look at another retailer's device which I
think has a few more options. You can load your own .cbr comic files on the Kindle, but you'll need to use
a third party app, like Comicat to do it.
AMAZON MP3/VIDEO - Amazon hopes that you will get the majority of your content from them. That is
why the Fire is so reasonably-priced. Amazon music is DRM-free. DRM is copy protection. That means
that the record labels haven't locked down the music you buy from Amazon to restrict how you use it.
Amazon MP3 music is playable anywhere, even on your Apple devices. It also has a very high bitrate so
you are getting great quality. You don't have to worry about not being able to listen to your music 15
years from now if Amazon goes under. It's yours forever. As far as video, I have always disliked
Amazon's Video services. The prices are very reasonable and they now have a huge selection, but
obtaining the videos is a huge pain due to Amazon's terrible Unbox player. That changes with the Fire, as
everything is native and streams/downloads beautifully. If you make a lot of purchases with Amazon, or if
you have several Amazon customers in your household, you should take advantage of their Prime
program. Read more ›
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Great device, you will enjoy it November 15, 2011
By jjceo
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I picked mine up today at Best Buy. At home I plugged it in and set up the WIFI and my Amazon account
and it immediately told me that an update was downloading. After about 10 to 12 minutes it rebooted and
started working. I own an iPhone, iPad 2, HP Touchpad and a Kindle Keyboard version. This device
compares with the Ipad. The reviews that blast the Kindle Fire as being no good are just not true. I am a
retired CEO and computer Guru and have a great WIFI set up in my home. Here is my quick and dirty
review:
WIFI fast and easy to set up and use
Keyboard types great, much better than the HP Touchpad and as good if not better than the iPad.
Display high resolution comparable to the iPad 2
The device downloaded my 100 books in minutes. Most books downloaded to the device in 3 to 4
seconds. A couple of large books took 5 seconds and I am talking about books with 800 pages!
Web browsing is extremely fast. I loaded up a dozen sites that I go to with complex screens and they took
2 to 3 seconds to load. The people who are complaining should fix their WIFI instead of complaining
about the Kindle Fire. I see no problem and the speed on the sites I tested is comparable to the iPad 2.
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about the Kindle Fire. I see no problem and the speed on the sites I tested is comparable to the iPad 2.
One site for a local TV station took about 8 seconds and the screens are complex and contain a lot of
videos and changing photos.
Apps load and work great, Facebook, Words With Friends and the Weather Channel loaded fast and
work quickly.
Scrolling works very fast and responsive on the capacitive touch screen. Better than the HP Touchpad
Video download is very fast and I have no complaints.
Sound is very good on the device. Much louder than on my iPad 2 device. I saw several reviews blasting
the Kindle Fire and in my opinion the sound is better than the iPad 2.
I put the Kindle Fire into a case I purchased from Oberondesign and it fit tightly, but it did fit.
The Kindle Fire is more portable and easier to hold than the iPad and HP Touchpad.
The power button is bad. It is easy to bump and it is right next to the power plug. I have already turned
the device off 4 times by accident while doing the testing. I was unplugging the power cable and touched
the switch every time. This switch should have been on the top of the device.
Overall the Kindle fire is a 9 out of 10. For the price it is a 10 out of 10.
I am not a professional reviewer nor am I a paid reviewer. The Kindle fire is worth the money and it works
well. What happens after 5 million users get onto Amazon is a new test that Amazon must prove they can
handle.
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Please look at one of my later comments on an excellent WIFI APP tool than could help you test your
home WIFI system. Amamzon sells it and it is free!
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Update 12-21-2011
Amazon has made an update to the Kindle Fire operating system effective today. Make sure that your
Kindle Fire is fully charged or plugged in and press the power button for about 20 seconds. Turn on the
Kindle Fire by pressing the on button again and it will begin to come on slowly. It will be downloading the
update. After it starts it will shut down automatically and then restart again. When the swipe arrow comes
on, swipe it and enter your password (If you have one) and your Kindle will start. Be patient when
downloading this and wait for the Kindle Fire to totally restart!
The new operating system is number 6.2.1 and it was 6.2. You can check this by touching the small gear
in the upper RH corner, touch "+More", touch "Device" and then looking at the entry for the "System
Version".
Major changes that I can see:
-Memory is now segmented into two parts that are available to you. The first is Application Storage which
is set at 1.17 GB. It will appear at the top of the device screen and you can see how much is used for
Apps. This is the memory allocated for your down loaded and resident Apps.
- The remaining memory is called Internal Storage and it is now 5.37 GB for your books, movies and
other storage besides Apps. It is listed below the Application Storage.
-When looking at the Settings page you will see a new access for "Restrictions" which allows you to
enable a password to turn WIFI access OFF or ON. If you enable this you will be asked to enter a
password, (Minimum of 4 characters) that will allow you to turn Off the WIFI access. You have now just
enabled a "child" mode where you can play games, read books, or do anything that is installed on your
Kindle Fire. You will not be able to get new email, browse the internet, buy anything, or communicate in
any way to the Web as the WIFI is turned off. You will see a key in the upper RH corner where before you
saw the WIFI strength indicator. The key symbol means the WIFI is locked OFF. DO NOT FORGET
YOUR PASSWORD! Remember you can do anything that is on your Kindle but you cannot download
anything from the "Cloud" so make sure that your Kindle has everything you want to do on it resident in
the Kindle memory. In order to enable the WIFI you must touch the key symbol, touch WIFI, touch WIFI
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the Kindle memory. In order to enable the WIFI you must touch the key symbol, touch WIFI, touch WIFI
"ON", enter your password and click OK. Your WIFI will reconnect in about 5 seconds.
-You are able to remove anything from the Carousel by simply touching it for a few seconds and then
selecting "Remove from Carousel". This is a nice new feature and you can still access your books or
Apps by using the menu bar items above the Carousel.
- Amazon states that operation fluidity and performance enhancements have be added but it is difficult to
see what they are as the device does so much you don't know where to look for the enhancements.
-Amazon states that the touch navigation is more responsive and again it is difficult to see changes. I do
seem to notice that the back arrow symbol on the bottom of the screen seems to be more responsive.
There is a post on Amazon to download this update using a computer and a micro-USB cable but I have
updated two Kindle Fires using the method I discuss above without a problem. If you would like to look at
the Amazon post look here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_k6_updatesi?
nodeId=200790620
Many people may not own a micro-USB cable.
I could not use the automatic update mode where it says to touch the "Update Your Kindle" button on the
Kindle Fire under the Device page as that selection was grayed out. Cycling the power to do a hard reset
forced the download automatically. You should receive this update automatically on your Kindle Fire in a
day or two after it begins the automatic update roll-out.
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I want to love it, I really do. But I can't. November 15, 2011
By waetherman
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As a long-time Kindle fan I was eager to get my hands on a Fire. For the most part I've found that it does
what I wanted it to, which is be the one device I can take with me anywhere. There are some great
features; the reader app is excellent (though not without flaws), the app store experience is terrific, videos
are fantastic, and the device is quick and for the most part dead-simple to use, all thanks to the services
Amazon provides. And of course the extras that come with Prime membership really make it a real value
- I won't be cancelling my Netflix streaming account just yet (watching Netflix on the Fire works very well)
but I imagine within a year Amazon's free streaming video catalog will be just as good as Netflix. The free
"lending library" book every month really is the icing on the cake though, and makes Prime membership a
no-brainer. The hardware itself is solid and has a quality feel, it's just the right size for one-handed use,
and the screen is fantastic (for an LCD screen) with good brightness and excellent color, and a very wide
viewing angle. So as a reader, video player and music streaming device the Fire excels, and as an
occasional browsing, emailing, game playing tablety thing it does pretty well.
But there are some downsides too; the small bezel size makes holding it without inadvertent page-turns
difficult, the lack of buttons makes controls harder, the accessible storage memory is limited to just 5GB,
which seems awfully small when carrying my own video content on a trip, and overall the interface of the
system is just a little awkward and unfinished. Sometimes the back button doesn't work, buttons are hard
to push accurately or launch the wrong function, navigation isn't exactly intuitive, etc. Particularly
annoying are things like the way that almost half the screen is taken up by menu bars when browsing in
landscape mode, the "momentum" of the browsing not stopping, menu bars that sometimes just pop up
randomly while reading, and the navigation of Newsstand content like the New York Times is incredibly
awkward. And then there's the jerkiness that happens when browsing or navigating other content; to me,
this just shouldn't happen when reading a book. This is a Kindle, after all.
On the missing or unfinished side its disappointing that there isn't even a little bit of social media built in no sharing clips of books or newsstand material via email, FB or twitter. Also missing is the "read out
loud" found on other Kindles, and the new "X-Ray" feature found on the other new Kindles. There is no
archiving or syncing personal documents - they have to be mailed individually to the Fire. And there's no
page numbers in the books - c'mon, Amazon, this is even available for the old Kindles at this point. The
browser lacks some basic functionality like being able to rearrange bookmarks, and other little
annoyances. The email application is very basic, and doesn't always format text properly, and doesn't
have simple things like a landscape mode to view a list of messages. But the biggest "unfinished" feature
of the Fire is the Cloud integration; the Cloud doesn't work hand-in-glove with the Fire in the way you
think it might. In order to access features like the video or the docs, you basically have to go through a
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think it might. In order to access features like the video or the docs, you basically have to go through a
browser the way you would from any other device. For the most part the Cloud acts only as a digital
locker for items purchased from Amazon, not seamlessly as a repository for any kind of content you want
to access from the Fire. The way the Cloud seems to be marketed, and the way it should work, is that the
Fire and the Cloud should work seamlessly together for all kinds of content; if you upload your own movie
from your PC to the Cloud, you should see it in your Video tab on the Fire, and be able to stream it or
download it. If you upload folders of work documents to the Cloud, they should be available to browse
and download from the Fire's Doc tab. But that's not the way it works. For whatever reason, the Fire's
using a Frankenstein mix of the Cloud, Kindle digital library, the app store, and local storage to handle
content needs. It just isn't quite ready for prime time, and it isn't what people are expecting when they
pick up the Fire.
All of these little things add up to make what could be a great device merely adequate. Many will be able
to overlook these problems and enjoy the Kindle Fire for what it is; an inexpensive all-in-oneentertainment device. I only point them out to remind people that they should not expect perfection from
the Kindle Fire, at least not out of the box. Over the next few months it's possible (likely) that many of the
problems I have could be fixed with software revisions - i.e. the bezel problem could be fixed by making
the margins in the reader app non-active, for instance, and the problem with the menus taking up too
much room could be fixed by making them accessible via swipe-up or swipe-down. Hopefully Amazon is
already working on these things. Until then, I'm trying to learn to live with the Fire as best I can. Maybe I
can learn to love it.
NOTE: This review has been edited slightly since it was originally posted for the purposes of clarity and to
answer questions that have come up in the comments thread to this review. Please leave a comment if
you need clarification or think that something has been missed.
UPDATE NOV 30: a recent software update seems to have fixed several of the above problems,
specifically the system speed and page-turning speed are better, and the button response is much
improved. Random menus no longer appear when reading, momentum in the browser doesn't seem to be
a problem anymore, and the carousel is much easier to use as a result of it having slightly more "friction"
in paging through the most recent items used.
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