Saturday, December 7, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Tests - freenet.de

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 in test (c) Amazon

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 in test (c) Amazon

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A high-quality tablet, very well made, lightweight and with an unusual display diagonal, but a very high resolution: who has now said iPad Mini retina, must hire back again. All of the above namely on the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX to 8.9.

With its 8.9-inch screen, the HDX has an intermediate size: It is larger than mini-tablets like the iPad Mini or the Nexus 7, therefore, is not as good example as an e-book reader: In one hand you can not keep it very convenient. However, it is 370 grams lighter than many other 7 – or 8-inch tablets and narrower over an inch than the iPad Air or other large tablets – the more screen area therefore makes it an ideal surfing and multimedia tablet. In the battery test, it convinces with long durations, both in the video playback as well as the Wi-Fi browsing.

design and processing: Thin and light

The very thin tablet (7 , 85 mm high) feels comfortable and grippy. The back with edges to thinning reinforced the narrow impression. The lateral edges of the magnesium unibody are slightly curved upwards – thus the connections like headphone jack and microUSB can be achieved more easily. The mechanical buttons (power button, volume) sitting on the back of the tablet.

the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 running version 3.0 of the Amazon Fire operating system OS – codenamed Mojito. It is based on Android 4.2.2, but it shows nothing: the user interface, Amazon has designed completely different and you do not have access to the Google Play Store. When Kindle Fire HDX all the content on the tablet in a central carousel are arranged: turn so long by apps, videos, books, and other content are until you arrive at what you searched for. It’s fast and mostly smooth.

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top of the screen are menus such as shopping, games, apps, books, music, videos, audio books, web, photos, documents, offers and finding arranged. A wipe from top to open the status bar with options for screen and Wi-Fi as well as the setup menu. Below is a fixed menu bar, which allows you to quickly access certain apps like the browser, email or camera. Up on the carousel, the menu structure is not significantly different from Android – connecting passengers find their way quickly

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mobility Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (Rating: 1.90)
battery life: Internet access via WLAN / Play Video 9:00 hours / 8:41 hours
Weight (with battery) / Weight Power Supply 370/105 grams

The Tablet as Amazon buying shop

getting used to, however, is everywhere visible alignment on Amazon – for example through recommendations, advertisements in the lock screen or the Amazon subsidiary Lovefilm as a supplier for purchase and rental videos: The by the way in the “Video” menu is always displayed first, your own videos you will find until you click “Personal Files” .

Kindle FreeTime has the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 a clear and simple child safety on board: You can create a user and this specific content release on the tablet. Amazon makes recommendations after the specified age of the user, which you do not have to follow. You can also set a time limit for tablet usage. This child safety device to protect with a password.

The offer in the Amazon App Store

On the Amazon tablet, you can only install apps from the Amazon store. Actually, because APKs usually also work. The Amazon App Store is pretty well sorted: There are many known of Android File Manager, and Office apps like Office Suite Pro or Documents to Go. Productive apps like Adobe Photoshop can be found as well as favorites like Flipboard, LinkedIn, Evernote, Shazam or SoundHound. Also known games like Fifa 14 or asphalt 8′s on Amazon. However, the selection is not as large as in the Play Store: It lacks some important apps like Whats App or Bubble UPnP. Also, Dropbox and Runtastic is not available for the HDX 8.9. Especially with local apps, there are large gaps: DB Navigator, Telecom Program Manager Xing or you can not find. The apps for the media libraries of ARD and ZDF you get though. Google Apps you did not get for Amazon tablet also. The interesting feature of “Mayday” is only available in the U.S.: For Kindle users may have a problem, get a support staff via video call on the tablet screen

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pace: Good for games

The Amazon tablet responds very quickly finger and gesture inputs – most of the time: only zooming into web pages does anything but liquid. Besides being impressed with the performance of the powerful quad-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 In Browser Game Benchmarks cut only the two new iPads with the A7 better. The Kindle Fire HDX is on the pace of the fastest-level Android tablets Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. Strong effect games like Asphalt 8 therefore run smoothly and with beautiful effects.

multi-tasking works, however, not on the Kindle Fire HDX as good as iOS and Android: For example, the video player launches a movie always new when you switch to another app in the meantime, instead of just pause it. The WLAN also works afloat: The dual-band module transmits on 2.4 and 5 GHz with a maximum of about 64 Mbit / s – under good radio conditions perfectly adequate for streaming Full HD video

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operation and speed Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (Rating: 2.37)
screen / screen-keyboard / multi-finger gestures / Screen Technology neat / tidy / yes / capacitive
voice input no
Browser: Speed ??(SunSpider) / GL Benchmark / 3D Mark Ice Storm Unlimited / median load time for web pages 727.7 milliseconds / 59 fps / 12,747 points / 3.76 seconds
Wireless speed 63.6 Mbit / s
Start time: from switched off / out of standby mode 30/1 sec

Screen: High resolution and bright

The 8.9-inch screen shows 2560 x 1600 pixels – and thus a higher point density than the Retina Mini or the Nexus 7 However, this is a pure reading – none of these tablets, individual pixels can be recognized. Therefore sees on the HDX font like printed, icons and images fine gradients. The of the Amazon tablet’s screen is also very bright, has a good contrast and displays great colors -. From any angle



screen Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (Rating: 1.74)
diagonal / resolution / point density 8.9 inches (22.7 centimeters) / 2560 x 1600 pixels / 339 ppi
Brightness / Contrast / AR coating 424 cd / m² / 1396:1 / low

facilities: No card reader, no HDMI

Only with the equipment messes up the Kindle Fire HDX a bit: it offers neither a slot for micro SD cards are still an HDMI output. A GPS receiver is also missing, which is available as with Apple only in the LTE model: the 3G-less HDX determines the position via WLAN. For the two tablet cameras make very good photos and videos. Our test model, the movie recording worked, but only after an update. The photos of the rear camera are sharp, showing rich colors and hardly any noise. Thanks to LED flash, you can also use them in bad light. The front camera is operating in video mode pleasantly smooth and therefore is recommended for video calls.
















Facilities Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (Rating: 3.57)
processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (2.15 GHz, quad)
Dimensions (L x W x H) 23 x 15.7 x 0.78 inches
Operating System Fire OS 3.0
built-in memory (type) 16 GB (Flash)
Wireless LAN / Bluetooth / UMTS / GPS 11n dual-band / 4.0 / No / No
USB 1 (Micro)
HDMI no
card reader (formats) NO (-)
slot for SIM card no
camera yes (3200 x 2400 pixels)
Internet Camera yes (1024 x 768 pixels)
docking connector no
audio output 1
microphone yes
delivery power adapter, USB cable



(recommended retail / street price price)



General Data Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9
Internet address Amazon www.amazon.de
Price 379 € / 379 €
Technical Hotline 0800/5890067
Warranty 12 months





Service Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (Rating: 2.78)
Manual: German / printed / large / as PDF yes / no / yes / yes
Warranty 12 months
Service Hotline / German / weekend service / access / continuous / email accessible 0800/5890067 / yes / no / 10 Hours / Yes / Yes
website / German / manual available / available driver / utilities available www.amazon.de / yes / yes / no / yes

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