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My Thoughts On The Kindle Fire

Over the last two years, the iPad has been dominating the tablet market. Until now, I’ve regarded all other tablets at the same price point useless hunks of silicon. Today Amazon announced their new Kindle Fire. The tablet features a plethora of great specs and only costs $200. That’s right, it’s the first viable tablet competition to the iPad that has a competitive price point!

Now on to my thoughts… The Kindle Fire looks good, really good. For $200 it destroys every other Android tablet on the market with ease. As far as the interface goes, I’m really impressed with the design. It’s one of the fist tablets with an interface that looks completely different to the interface iOS and Honeycomb uses (single pages with icons). As you can see in the image above, Amazon chose to feature an elegant cover flow style content browser that allows you to see recently used apps, movies, books and more. Other apps are available in a side-scrolling browser on the bottom. 

Specs are pretty decent, so lets make a direct comparison to the $500 Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1:

Kindle Fire $200:

• Display: 7’ Multi-Touch IPS - 1024x600
• Processor: Dual Core - Unknown Clock Speed
• Storage: 8 GB Internal + Amazon Cloud Storage
• Camera: None
• Battery: 8 Hours

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 $500:

• Display: 10.1” - 1280x800
• Processor: Dual Core Tegra 2, 1GB RAM
• Storage: 16 GB Internal
• Camera: 3MP + Front Facing
• Battery: 9 Hours

For $200, the Kindle Fire is pretty similar and is definitely a great choice if you are looking for an inexpensive alternative. Plus, since it’s from Amazon, it’s connected to your Amazon account which means purchasing apps, books, music, and movies is extremely easy.

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