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Kindle Fire HD and HDX Kindle Fire: Amazon launches new tablet PCs - COMPUTER BILD

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By Rainer Schuldt, 16.10.2013, 22:15 clock

Effective immediately, the Amazon tablet PC “Kindle Fire HD” (second generation) and “Kindle Fire HDX” available in Germany. COMPUTER BILD, the devices before.

Tablet Amazon Kindle Fire HD and HDX © Amazon Kindle Fire

The new Kindle Fire tablet HDX are the flagships in Amazon’s hardware range.


HD Kindle Fire: Seven-inch tablet for 129 euros

A mazon attacks: For the “small purse” holds the company now the Kindle Fire HD ready. This is an updated version of the previous model. Despite the low price (the phone does at prices from 129 euros over the counter) is to get a modern tablet computer, the customer. For this equips the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD with an HD display (resolution: 1280×800 pixels, pixel density of 216 ppi), a 1.5-GHz processor (Dual Core), stereo speakers and wireless from

Lightweight and compact

The approximately 350 grams, the device you use entirely via the touch screen,. Starter button and volume controls are located on the back and allow the control without changing the grip

The cloud comes free

The purchase price is unlimited storage in the Amazon Cloud, where you put as your purchased from the online retailer Music from (CD purchases land there in parallel as MP3, when available for the album’s “AutoRip” function), download ebooks from the Kindle store or store your other data

Kindle Fire HD. prices, availability

Kindle Fire HD is available with eight gigabytes of storage for 129 euros and 159 euros for 16 gigabytes. Amazon then displayed on the lock screen but a promotion. Without advertising the tablet PC cost 144 and 174 euros. All models are now available for order and will begin shipping on 24/10/2013.

HDX Kindle Fire: Fast and super high resolution

Who needs a better screen and more power to keep the Amazon Fire tablet HDX ready. They are available in two versions – with seven-inch display (resolution 1920×1200 pixels with a pixel density of 323 ppi) or 8.9-inch display (2560×1600 pixels, 339 ppi). In all HDX devices, a faster 2.2 GHz Snapdragon processor 800 operates with four cores. The data memory is either 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes in size.

precious equipment

The Kindle Fire 7 HDX has a front camera (720p), while the larger Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 also has an eight-megapixel camera. Available, the HDX tablets with either Wi-Fi or with Wi-Fi / LTE, and LTE speed is realized at the start only via the Vodafone mobile network. Also on board: stereo speakers, Bluetooth, a battery with up to eleven hours of run time, and – as with the Kindle Fire HD – unlimited cloud storage for the above functions

Kindle Fire HDX. Prices, Availability

The Kindle Fire 7 HDX there at prices ranging from 229 euros (16 gigabytes of storage, display advertising) and 404 euros (64 GB, LTE, ad-free). It is available from 13.11.2013; pre-orders are now open. Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 you get at prices ranging from 379 euros (16 GB, advertising) and 594 euros (64 GB, LTE, ad-free). These devices are pre-order now, and delivered from 19.11.2013

in Free Time mode switch apps and ebooks for your children free. Other contents of the sprouts do not get to see.


on all devices installed: Fire OS 3.0

Also new is the operating system “Fire OS 3.0″ (code name: Mojito), which is based on Android 4.2.2 and Amazon has provided some interesting features. The device automatically sets the home screen in a so-called carousel from the apps that you use most frequently or most recently, all other programs can be accessed via an underlying grid. Fire eBooks treated like the way OS apps, each book comes with its own cover on the screen. If you like, but the books also sorted into folders for parents

interesting is “Free Time”. Use this function to turn the Tablet PC into a “kids mode”. On a different color to the traditional desktop interface where you place the apps that will get to see your kids about games or children’s books. You also specify how long surf, play or be able to read the little daily. If the timeout is reached, nothing more. By the way: From the free-time mode, there is no escape for the children – only with a password returns the Kindle tablet PC back to normal surface.

Also practical: the “do not disturb” function – it is activated, you will be neither books nor distracted while reading an incoming mails through other visual and audio cues. “Quick Switch” allows you to quickly switch between different apps or books, while optimized for Tablets Amazon Store is possible to draw several products on a bar at the bottom of the screen. To make price comparisons before or function, without having to search again and again in the store.

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