Kindle Fire Review

Kindle Fire Review 10.01.2012 | Author: James Perron | Posted in Computer Amazon caused quite a sensation in the summertime of 2011 when they revealed the upcoming release of a new 7 inch tablet with an 8 hour battery life that would run on a very customised version of Android and cost somewhat less than $200. When the final specs were exposed the interest reached fever pitch as it was very similar to the iPad 2 with a 1 GHz dual-core processor and 512 MB RAM. However , closer inspection and use of the Kindle Fire shows that far from being an iPad 2 killer, the Kindle Fire meets a very different role. The first thing you may notice when reading thru the Kindle Fire specs is the absence of some of the hardware which is commonplace even on smartphones nowadays. You will not find a camera, mike, GPS, compass or a 3G chip so what you can do with the Kindle Fire is rather restricted. Amazon has even cut off access to the Android Market-place so you can only download authorised programmes from the Kindle Store but before you balk at the concept, the Kindle Store has 16,000 apps available to download including all the most popular tools, utilities, office programs and games that you’ll find on the Android Marketplace. What Amazon has done is create a fascinating handheld tablet that leverages its vast media library to become the ultimate consumption device. The Kindle Fire isn’t designed to be a creative tablet like the Samsung Galaxy or the Apple iPad 2, it’s engineered to do one thing which is to make it as simple as practicable to access Amazon’s database of movies, television shows, ebooks, apps and music. To this end, Amazon even sells the Fire at a complete loss because it knows it’ll make up the cost in the longer term which goes some way toward explaining the awesome price.