Mutvak - Amazon Kindle Fire Review

	Amazon Kindle Fire Review Amazon Kindle Fire is a device built for media consumption not creation. Content buying is seamlessly integrated with Amazon meaning that you have access to biggest shop on the world. It has decent web experience. It does lack apps. Video player needs improvements. Not very suitable to heavy ebook reading. All in all considering the price point you can give it try. Item community - Item page - Tablets page @Steve wrote the review Contributors: 386192 + 329752 + 362440 +

→ Surfing the Web • Reading & Writing • Apps Experience • Using in Sunshine and Outdoor • Running Issues • Using with Family •

Surfing the Web

Kindle Fire is using its own Silk web browser. Main idea is that, similar to Opera Mini, Amazon is caching/proxying web content on its own servers and send you directly. They say this cuts latency and smoother experience. I didn't feel much faster access. There are two main issues in the air. One is privacy of your data on Amazon servers and second is you rely on Amazon AWS if there will be any outages it may affect you too.

Webkit based improvement (support tabs) over standard Android browser. Sites I visited was okay. ↑

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Reading & Writing

Fire screen is a backlit IPS LCD one. It provides a better viewing from wide angles.

Main font looks beautiful. It make good reading but not other Kindles' good.

I didn't have chance to read ebooks for long hours. Even for shorter periods (~1 hour) of time I can say that it cannot replace other Kindles' for ebook reading. Furthermore, Fire weirdly does not support page numbers. As Amazon is the most experienced ebook reader producer I couldn't get it. Maybe it's intentional not to cannibalize other Kindle sales.

Screen looks gorgeous but reading other content is hard without zooming. This is due to publishers/web sites are mostly custom targeting iPad not Fire. This shows.

It's a 7-inch screen so bigger than my iPhone but smaller than 9.7-inch iPad. When I'm typing on iPad it's like automatic. But on Fire it's horrible. Typos, wrong words... Maybe I'm expecting an iPad experience that's why so many typos. I don't know. ↑

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Apps Experience

Apps support is lacking greatly. But I'm sure there will be lots of them considering Fire's selling like hotcakes. ↑

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Using in Sunshine and Outdoor

It's almost useless in sunshine. Forget about using on the beach in summer at all. If you want beach-reading go with other Kindles. ↑

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Running Issues

Feels heavier and bigger. Holding Kindle Fire is a pleasure since its back is rubberized. But holding long time is tiring.

Glass seems like scratch-resistant.

Video player is a vast improvement but still on some videos you can't stretch video to the screen.

Sound is on par with Galaxy and iPad. Amazon MP3 store has wide selection. ↑