![]() ![]() There is no usual home screen, no usual multitasking, no Play store and no widgets. Amazon has completely customized the user interface on the device. Though Fire HD 8.9 is powered by Android, it is unlike any other Android tablet. It shows pleasant and saturated colours, has great viewing angles and is bright enough to be used in well-lit conditions with ease.īut in the world of super-high resolution iPads and quad-core Android tablets, hardware is hardly the big story with Fire HD 8.9. The screen, which as we noted earlier, carries the HD moniker. There is 1.3MP front camera for video calls. The tablet is powered by a dual-core processor running at 1.5GHz, has 1GB RAM and 16GB storage. The back cover can't be removed and there are no ports for a SIM card or microSD cards. The power and volume buttons, placed on the right side of the device, sit flush with shell of the tablet and can be barely distinguished. On both sides of the strip there are vents for speakers, which sound loud and clear while playing music or movies. There is also a thin metal strip that runs horizontally across the tablet's back cover, just below the area where you are likely to hold the device while using it in landscape mode. The back cover has a soft rubber coating, which makes gripping the tablet easier and pleasant. The build quality, however, is impeccable and better than what you get with the likes of Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tabs. It has a shell made of plastic unlike the aluminum one that iPad uses. However, in terms of design, Fire is an entirely different beast. In terms of screen size, it is quite close to the full-size iPad that has a 9.1-inch display. But for some, this could be a very good device to carry around.īefore we talk about who should buy Kindle Fire and who shouldn't, lets take a look at Fire HD 8.9.Īs the model name suggests, this tablet has a screen size of 8.9 inches and sports a FullHD resolution (1200 x 1920 pixels). To cut a long story short, we can tell you that this is not a tablet for everyone. Now that they are here, the question is should you buy them? We have been using Kindle Fire HD 8.9, the flagship Amazon tablet for the last few weeks. So, Amazon put in place an ecosystem (sort of, we will detail it in the following paragraph) in India and started selling the Fire in the last week of June. Without the Amazon's content store, Kindle Fire tablets are virtually useless. The focus is on how these tablets can connect to the content ecosystem Amazon has and help a user get the book, movie or song that he wants and when he wants. The focus of the Kindle Fire tablets - there are two at the moment - is not Android or even the usual tablet experience. ![]() They are not like Samsung's Galaxy Tab or Google's Nexus tablets. Amazon's Android tablets are a bit different. This is because Amazon, which launched its first tablet Kindle Fire in 2011, wasn't selling anything other than Kindle - aka the world's most popular e-book reader - in India until last month. Do you know Amazon sells an Android tablet? Unless you are someone who keeps an eye on the world of technology, probably not. ![]()
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