Amazon wants to make its customers easily. The online retailer sells its high-end HDX tablet cheaper than the competition. In addition, the Wi-Fi weighs 8.9 version of the Kindle Fire HDX only 374 grams – nearly 100 grams less than the corresponding iPad
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This is noticeable. Who’s excited about the low weight of the iPad, Air, Fire comes when HDX certainly amazed. That changes dramatically, however, when the Kindle covers one of the optionally offered Origami cases. The device is felt twice as heavy. In addition, the actually practical origami envelopes of the elegant tablet make an ugly plastic bomber.
Whether with or without shell: The attached at the rear switch irritate. Although they are easy to feel, but so positioned that it engages not intuitive to the right place. If you have found the power switch, then rewarded the illuminated screen with great picture quality. The resolution is 2560 x 1600 pixels.
ten hours of battery lifethe HDX 8.9-inch display makes this resolution that you think you see a completely homogeneous surface in front of him. Fonts and icons are sharp, solid-colored uniform color surfaces. The black is really black here, at all the contrasts are very strong. A better tablet screen does not exist currently.
Considering that it all goes smoothly, a 2.2 GHz quad-core processor ensures faster. Whether we loaded him with graphically complex games, websites and videos: The processor completed everything seemingly effortlessly and was thereby encouraging frugal. The stated battery life of Amazon twelve hours never made our test device but his ten hours were no problem.
apps and media in the carouselrequires some getting used to the modified Amazon Fire Android operating system OS 3.0. Instead of the usual, dominated by app icons user interface, here is a kind of carousel in the center. All apps and media that you used to be, lined up, and can be searched by a finger slide.
The more you do with the device, the longer and more confusing is that this rotating list, however. In addition, we quickly noticed that the analogy does not really fit to the carousel. Tape does not run around in circles, but has two endpoints between which one must navigate
A Tablet for shopping
Carousel principle has the consequence that one quite different with apps and data bypasses the Fire HDX 8.9 than on other platforms. Instead of starting a media player app to look for a particular album, you select the album in his music collection. If you want to listen to it again later, it is in the carousel ready.
Anyone that does not like make friends, often using apps can be put together to Icon view. The first seven of these are always displayed at the bottom of the screen, you can move further into the field of view by wiping the bottom of the screen.
changed the Amazon tablet user interface but also makes clear that the Fire HDX 8.9 was designed for media consumption far more than Apple’s iPad. The menu item shopping is an integral part of the home screens, from the various subdivisions of games, music or videos you get to the appropriate Amazon store.
advantages and disadvantages
Very good screen
Fast processor
Good workmanship
Successful design
Easy to use
Good battery life
Limited selection of apps
Chunky origami Sleeves
No power adapter included
This also explains why the Fire HDX 8.9 100 euros cheaper than a corresponding iPad Air sakes you look luxury, the difference is greater 579 euros in the same equipment.
Conclusion
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 offers almost all the features you want from a tablet. It is small and light enough to always be there, has a very good screen and enough battery power. The only thing it’s missing is the huge selection of apps that are found on other Android devices, and especially on the iPad. Instead Google Play Shop Amazon’s App Store is only installed on the device, the software offers a much smaller selection. It lacks some competitive offerings such as Google’s Chrome browser or the app Videographer Watch Ever.
| Amazon Tablets in 2013 | |||
| Manufacturer | Amazon | Amazon | Amazon |
| name | Kindle Fire HD | Kindle Fire HDX | Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 |
| Operating System | Fire OS 3.0 | Fire OS 3.0 | Fire OS 3.0 |
| processor | 1.5 GHz Dual Core | 2.2 GHz quad-core | 2.2 GHz quad-core |
| Memory | n | n | n |
| Storage | 8/16 GB | 16/32/64 GB | 16/32/64 GB |
| Display Size | 7 inch | 7 inch | 8.9 inch |
| display resolution | 1280 x 800 | 1920 x 1200 | 2560 x 1600 |
| Wireless | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bluetooth | n | Yes | Yes |
| NFC | No | No | No |
| HDMI | No | No | No |
| mobile | No | optional LTE | optional LTE |
| memory card slot | No | No | No |
| webcam | No | Yes | Yes |
| Digital Camera | No | No | Yes, 8 megapixels |
| Weight | 345 grams | 303 (LTE 311) grams | 374 (LTE: 384) grams |
| Dimensions | 191 X 128 X 10.6 mm | 186 X 128 X 9.0 mm | 231 X 158 X 7.8 mm |
| price with wireless | from 129 € | from 229 € | from 379 € |
| price with wireless and mobile | not available | from 309 € | from 479 € |
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