Chances are, if you are reading this article, you are considering buying the Kindle Fire. You are probably a Kindle owner planning to upgrade, or maybe you are looking at the Fire as an e-reader and tablet. With regards to pricing, it will not get better than the Kindle Fire. Amazon introduced their custom Android tablet in Nov of 2011 priced less than $200. It was a thought out move right before Christmas. In no time, it was on Amazon’s top sellers list.
The very first Kindle premiered in 2007. The system was around the size of a moderate paperback book developed specifically for reading. When Amazon revealed the 3rd generation of Kindle, which mainly mirrored the original with the same E-Ink technology offered in black and white only, Barnes and Noble released the Nook Color. End users started customizing their Android powered Nooks not only to read books, but to play 3D games and run software in full color. The Nook Color completely revolutionized the 7-inch tablet market.
It absolutely was a no-brainer for Amazon to reply to Barnes and Noble with the Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire runs a customized version of Google’s Android Gingerbread operating system. The extremely well-designed and user-friendly interface, known as Carousel, makes it a uncomplicated unit for everyone. The Kindle Fire is the 1st Kindle which has a fully functional web browser. It is not just any old browser either. It’s called Silk and offers users a very computer-like Internet experience.
Since Amazon has been an internet based superstore of books and music, they have used the Kindle Fire to monopolize entertainment. With the Fire, they offered a totally free month of membership for their Prime program giving users a chance to access well over 20,000 videos and TV shows. Users can purchase virtually any type of content for the Kindle Fire among them Android apps. There’s a large collection of this content that’s available free of charge, so it fits any budget.
The Amazon Kindle Fire retrieves content in just seconds via a Wi-Fi connection. It offers plenty of storage capacity, however, any constraint is quelled by means of the free cloud storage offered through Amazon. All of the content delivered to your Kindle is saved online utilizing your Amazon account. The focus on reading hasn’t faded. Kindle books are now in full color, and you don’t need an external light to read the screen.
You might be wondering “what’s bad about the Kindle Fire?” Why is it so low cost? Amazon designed the Fire to compete with the big boys such as the iPad as well as other well known tablets. The price tag alone causes it to be a competitor. The functionality is fabulous. The negative would have to be in the limitations put on the Kindle Fire by Amazon. End users can only download apps from the Amazon App Store unless you sideload them by attaching the Fire to your computer. Amazon conveniently does not include the cable needed to do this with the Fire. The good news is, if you own a 3rd generation Kindle, the cord supplied with that device works or you can get one separately on Amazon’s website.
The number one provider of Android apps, the Google Android Market, will not work on the Kindle Fire without major manipulation that will void the warranty. Also, people who have used an iPad will spot the lag in the Android Operating System. Then again, the performance has been drastically improved in the Android 4.0 OS. Some will determine that it makes the Kindle Fire a substandard device. Others will decide that such small things make it well worth its low price. Provided you can accept those few things, then a Kindle Fire could be the device for you.
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