The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 able to compete with the Apple iPad Air . (Photo: kwe) Tuesday 26 November 2013
The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 has a fantastic screen, is very light and powerful. Maybe it’s even better than Apple’s iPad Air, but hardware is not everything eventually, right?
In the U.S., Amazon’s tablet a best seller and there were times the toughest competitors of Apple’s iPads. In Germany, however, there are still relatively few households in which a Kindle Fire is available. That could now change, perhaps because the new HDX Tablets are really sharp devices. n-tv.de has the larger model, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 tested.
switch and speaker sit on the back . (Photo: kwe) on
First notice that Amazon has the Fire HDX given its very own, mostly very successful design. The black velvety matt polycarbonate back is not round but flattened edges, which gives the device a very chic stealth look. With appropriate emblem on the back it could also serve as “Bat-Tablet” to go through.
from the front can be seen on display only activate the front camera and one suspects at the sides left the micro-USB port and the right headphone jack. The round off button and the volume rocker wide not sit on the sides, but on the back side of the beveled surfaces. Thus, they are very easy and convenient to use with the index fingers, the tablet is almost perfect in my hands. One reason is that the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 only 374 or 384 grams (LTE model) and weighs slim 231 x 158 x 7.8 mm measures.
back susceptible to dust
Fully closed, the plastic housing is not top Amazon has housed the two stereo speakers and the camera behind a glossy plastic strip. This looks despite a much too wide gap between the bar and the case after unpacking yet quite appealing. However, in the speaker cracks and the gap collects dust very quickly and the bar is a bit greasy. In addition, the speakers are housed there somewhat awkwardly, as they radiate to the back, have little steam and the sound is so often the front too quiet.
The shiny bar will not close completely flush (: kwe photo) from the frame . small design weakness, however, is taken up quickly when you turn on the Kindle Fire HDX screen. The system, designed for operation in landscape format 8.9 inch display has 2560 x 1600 pixels, which is impressive 339 ppi. The contrasts are strong, with a nice black and the colors are very natural. In addition, the screen can light up very bright. In direct comparison with the iPad Air one sees virtually no difference. In laboratory tests of “Anandtech”, “Display Mate” and other web sites Kindle Fire HDX devices but have consistently occupied the first place. The touch screen is pleasantly smooth, grease-resistant coating and reacts very accurately to touch. The operator feels very fluid and natural. A similar feeling otherwise offer only the iPads. Firstly, Amazon has to be based on Android 4.2.2 operating system OS 3.0 Fire apparently perfectly with the hardware. For other works in HDX a quad-core Snapdragon processor 800 with up to 2.2 GHz, has access to two gigabytes of memory. The integrated graphics Adreno 330 proves stayed at other tip devices, how powerful it is. 3DMark benchmark the device section with 12,775 points from almost as good as the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. The Silk browser, outsource the calculations on Amazon servers, websites builds while on quickly but still remains significantly behind the flurry of MIMO technology of the iPad Safari Air. Amazon is the capacity of the battery pack, but promises a term of up to 18 hours. Realistically, about 10 hours, which moves the tablet here in iPad regions. The 8-megapixel camera on the back is quite able to make pretty shots under ideal conditions. However, pictures often fall quite flat and are very pixelated in the details. Videos should be best to save all. For larger tablets but it is important that the front camera for video chats clearly comes with a cozy living room lighting – and this gets back the lens of Fire HDX. In addition, the gallery offers App extensive editing options with many filters and tools, so it really is worth to import photos from your smartphone to improve. This can be done very easily via the Amazon Cloud Drive and an app that you can have it sent from the tablet via SMS directly on your smartphone. Overall, the user interface is very well done, which one is actually looking at the Android descent only in the settings. Instead of scrolling through different home screens, everything takes place under Fire OS as on the Home screen. Below is a bar with apps that actually shows the top row of app collection. If you push it up, you can see all the installed applications and can fill the first row as you like. In the middle is a “carousel” with selling books and the recently used apps. Upstairs there is a menu bar, which leads directly to the purchased or installed content. In addition, you can start a universal search or web search there and as you can at each point of the surface immediately ready to shop at Amazon. You stroke from the top off the screen down, one comes to the quick settings and notifications from the right pulls you the multitasking menu of recently used applications to the display. As for an update on the e-book reader Kindle Paperwhite, there is the possibility to create a limited user account for children with selected books and apps on “Kindle Free Time” on the HDX. Moreover, parents can set a time limit. “Mayday,” in which a support person in the video chat, and remotely on the device solves problems, for now is only U.S. customers. More about bottom line is that Kindle Fire HDX is a very good tablet, which currently offers the best screen, simple operation and round and plenty of shopping in Amazon Store. This is quite comparable to Apple’s closed system, which is designed primarily to consumption of own offer. But as far as shopping is Amazon’s system shields more consistently. Also, apps you only get the in-house store, although running on the Android system normal Android applications. So the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is especially interesting for people who like to shop at Amazon anyway, and maybe even a movie and series subscription at Amazon’s LOVEFiLM. You pay 379 euros for the cheapest unit with 16 gigabytes of internal memory. The 64-gigabyte model costs 479 euros. You can expand the memory not a slot for microSD cards missing. LTE versions sold from the Amazon 13 December prices for 479-579 euros. If you want a lockscreen without advertising, you have to drauflegen 20 euros. Source: n-tv.de
everything runs smoothly
camera okay, extensive image editing
In good conditions you can take the 8-megapixel camera make reasonable photos . (Photo: kwe)
shopping made easy
The user interface is simple and chic. (Photo: n-tv.de)
great iPad alternative, but anything but open
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