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The new Kindle Fire HD is a full-featured HD tablet at an SD price. There's more to enjoy than ever before with a amazing HD show, quicker performance, more time battery power, and lighter design
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Kindle Flame HD is over 60% quicker than the past creation Kindle Fire—a fast dual-core processor and an Creativity PowerVR 3D graphics primary ensure games and movie run smoothly.
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The Kindle Flame HD battery power lasts more time than the past creation Kindle Fire—up to 10 hours of reading, surfing the web on Wi-Fi, viewing movie, or paying attention to songs.
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To sum up what I will tell you about in the details below, for just $139 you are getting one heck of a deal on a tablet computer - especially if you compare it to the $199 for last year's first-generation Fire HD this one is replacing and the $500 or more you can spend on a Wi-Fi version of the iPad. Overall, if you consider the price and the functionality I think this is a great tool / toy if you are a first-time tablet buyer, price vs. value is a key consideration, or if you are looking for an affordable tablet for the kids. If you're comparing last year's HD model to this version and last year's model is operating fine, I'd say save your money and continue to get your money's worth out of that one.
My review below compares a lot of the features of this version of the Fire HD to the original Fire HD, but also some of the features for a first-time user.
I will say setup was a literal pain in the neck, and I said a lot of bad words: despite being a brand new product, the Fire attempted to download and install several operating software updates. Software updates on a Kindle are usually in the background, but I quit counting after 13 crashes and manual reboots. It crashed during setup, playing a song, watching a TV show, reading a book, and playing Words with Friends: in other words, it took 3+ hours to get this thing up and running but after the final software update it has worked as expected without further issues.
Screen Display / Video Playback:
The best improvement in this version of the Fire is the screen display.Read more ›
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First off, I would like to say this tablet is a great deal for just $139.99. I tried finding a tablet for under 100$ that would just work properly, just to let you know it's impossible. First, I want to tell you how I decided to buy this tablet.
I first bought the 9 inch Dragon touch tablet for 78$ but to be blunt it sucked. It was so slow that the web browser would always freeze, even if I did a simple Google search. I did not want to take a chance with it and returned it after 2 days of using it and decided to give the kindle fire HD a chance.
Exterior: The exterior is well built. No loose pieces, and the plastic is very firm. My previous cheap tablet had plastic that felt it was going to snap if you held it too hard. Of course the iPad mini has a glass screen and aluminum body, but it also starts at 329$. There are 2 ports: a micro usb and a headphone jack to plug in your headphones. The nice thing is that the micro usb is universal and finding a plug is cheap and easy to find. Although, amazon does include a very nice and not cheaply made cable/ wall charger along with your kindle. The buttons for the volume and power are a nice touch. I would not be surprised if new generation tablets will include these style buttons.
Only down side is there is no port for an SD card so you can store more memory. It would be a nice feature but if you really need all that storage, go buy a computer.
Display: One word, amazing. Maybe I am pushing it but the screen is so clear. I own an iPhone 5 and my eyes prefer my kindle. I love reading on this machine and for the price, amazon did a good job with this one.
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ASUS Transformer TF300 T-B1-BL 10.1-Inch 32 GB Tablet (Blue)
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UPDATE 3: Please check each individual section in my "PRIOR REVIEW" for updates on those particular items. I will do one more small update later.
UPDATE 2: This is just a short update just to let everyone that the replacement TF300 has for all extensive purposes been a home run. This is the tablet I wanted to love and it keeps giving me reasons to love it more. I will do a more in depth update later in the next few days but for now just let me say BUY THIS TABLET. I'm very happy I just got a defective unit the first time around. No strike 2 for ASUS. I'll leave my prior review in place just in case someone gets a tab that was doing the same thing.
UPDATE 1: Just to keep those interested in buying up to date. ASUS responded very quickly to my review (see comments) and after a few emails back and forth they also think I have a faulty tablet. For those interested I'll post some excerpts in the comments, I do go into a bit more detail on some of the errors.
PRIOR REVIEW:
Well, I'll get right to it. I want to LOVE this tablet. I did a lot of research and knew this was it for me. I received my tablet and started putting it through the paces. All was well for about a week, then it started rebooting over and over again. First it was rebooting after every song on Pandora. So I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Ok, problem solved. Not quite. Angry Birds Space froze, tablet rebooted. Now I'm getting suspicious. Pandora made it reboot. EVERYTHING made it reboot. Keep in mind all this was yesterday that it got all kooky. I am on the latest firmware. I did a cold boot (power off, unplugged, power button+volume down) and was hoping for the best. Nope. Getting my google play on and then silence. Look at the tablet and it's rebooting. So I start opening apps to test again. I open Dolpin Browser, Gallery, Super Note, and My Library, all but one come PREINSTALLED on the tablet. I go to open Pandora and don't even get to touch the icon before it's rebooting again. So I want to run that scenario, open the same apps, it's fine. I have the tab in the keyboard dock and I go to open Netflix. The screen goes to portrait then back to landscape and nothing happens. So I say screw it and put Google play back on again. I let it play over night, it did not restart, but the music did pause. Fine. I hit play in the morning and like 15 seconds in it restarts. I am returning this tablet and hoping it's just a defective unit. From the reviews it sounds it is. But I will make some comments on how it was when it did work.
Display
People say it's not as nice as the new IPAD. Well it's not, IPAD is a premium unit sold at a premium price. I'm not gonna compare a Hyundai to a high end Mercedes. Is a super duper HD screen really worth THAT much more? Not for me. Compare the Transformer Infinity to the IPAD. That said, the screen is great. Reading books is no problem, my pictures look awesome, games look very detailed. LITTLE bit of bleeding on the bottom (landscape) but as others have stated, only on black back grounds and really it doesn't take away from anything. It's not burn your eyes out bright as the Prime, but it's plenty bright. At home I usually keep it at 50%, in my office I might max it out, but in my defense 3 of my 4 walls are windows really so I get a lot of sunlight in here. It's plenty bright. I sort of think we've all been pampered and spoiled by gorgeous screens and I can honestly say this is one is just that. It's just not super duper IPS HDx400. Stop, it's great, plenty good, especially for the price. I've thrown some HD video at it looks awesome. And I'm a little snobby when it comes to these things, I'm happy with the display. It's also (when it works) very responsive out of box.
UPDATE: Not much to add to this. I still feel it's plenty bright for the average person. Resolution is fine, HD video looks great. HD games and apps look great. Non-HD apps are a little pixelated but that's not a display issue, that's an android issue because (and apple does do this better) not every app is made to be displayed on tablets. Great, solid screen that is very responsive. Really my only gripe is a gripe about ALL tablets is that they are finger print magnets. I was given a stylus that I thought I would never use, but I gotta admit that I love the thing. Since I use it so much it sort of solved the finger print issue.
Performance
Meh, can't comment on this until I get the replacement unit. It started off pretty snappy and just fell apart. Graphic intensive games were nothing to it. No lag at all. My bigger problems were the simple things which is kind of odd. I do love the option of low consumption, balanced, and performance. You can change between them quickly and there is a definite difference in battery life (and performance). I don't need 5 cores to do most things, i'm usually on balanced and it (when it works) was plenty fast. I think my unit is defective so I'll hold off on this part.
UPDATE: Now I can comment on this. GREAT tablet. This will probably be one of the most important sections for most so I'll try to be thorough. I'll break this up into subcategories to make it easy.
MULTITASKING UPDATE: This beast is amazing. Let me take you through a normal day. I get to the office and throw on streaming music or put a movie for back ground noise. I gotta prep for some meetings on Evernote, review some documents on Google Drive. Meeting time. We have a lot of internal documents in pdf, no problem with ezPDF reader (two bucks, buy it) where I can pull it up and ohhh look at that, yes I am annotating the pdf file with my own notes, text, drawings and pictures. I work at a large facility, someone in the meeting just asked about a certain area of our property. it's Maps time! I remove my tablet from the keyboard dock (which always is met by a look of surprise, then "oh how cool" then questions about the tablet) and scroll smoothly from side to side and zoom in and out with no problem (AS LONG AS YOU HAVE FAST WIFI!!!). Another question and I have to look at a website for a quick answer (like I said in the internet browsing, it's not that bad, just not a desktop experience on the speed) and now they ask to see some pictures, up comes the gallery where my pictures render quickly (performance mode is your friend, ladies and gents). Another question that I know can be better explained with a youtube video and back to my notes. Is Thursday good for a follow up meeting? Let me pull up my calendar....how were your numbers last year for this....let me open the file manager and pull up my excel sheets. I do not close any of this stuff down and only once has maps frozen and shut down. I do this almost every day to that extent and do not close apps between all this bouncing around. It handles it with out breaking a sweat. This machine is a multitasker. Quad-core? Yes please!
PERFORMANCE GAMES UPDATE: I did not purchase this tablet to play games. That said, holy jesus I love playing games on this thing. Your normal Android game (i.e. angry birds, Fruit Ninja, Ninja Chicken, TnT, Temple Run, Brave Temple Run, TripleTown (I saw the cutesy graphics and was going to bail, 3 minutes later I'm buying this insanely addictive game) all look and run beautiful. The graphic intensive games that should show off the processor might does just that. Max Payne, NOVA 3, Six Guns, ShadowGun and Biohazard 4 (korean only release, I don't know what the hell is going on in it) all look great, run smooth, and do it all with a high frame rate. I did have Shadow Gun shut down on me when I connected it to my 50' panasonic along to my PS3 controller, but that was after I played it for about half an hour with no problems, turned it off, and went to play it again. That was yesterday and I haven't tried again. I'm getting used to playing the higher end games on the tablet, it was a little weird at first with out a controller. I'm still a little clunky at it but I'm guessing I just need to practice. Overall I'd say the tablet has exceeded my expectations on the game front.
Internet Browsing
At times it's brilliant, but it's buggy. (right as I wrote that my tablet restarted...again with pandora) Anyways, not the smoothest web experience. But i think that will get better. My personal experience is that Chrome Beta seems to be the most unstable, it shuts down a lot. Dolphin seems pretty good as does the stock browser. I honestly have not put in enough time browsing the web to make a fair judgement on this.
UPDATE: I think this Internet Browsing might be the weakest thing about Android (not this tablet, it's really more of a software problem) It's not as good as desktop browsing, but it's a pretty new OS so there's going to be a lot of improvement on this front. It's not awful by any means, but it's just not that normal desktop experience. Some sites load just fine, no problem at all. Others that are flash heavy or have videos tend to take a bit too long to load. Nothing unbearable mind you, but definitely has room for improvement. But I might not have the right browser. I mainly use the stock browser. Haven't used Dolphin HD much, the chrome browser (beta) was god awful and unstable, and Firefox just came out and I have not tried that out yet.
Sound
Not bad, not oh my god amazing, but not bad. I watched Iron Man 2 on netflix with my Onkyo system hooked up to it, it did surround sound pretty damn well actually. Didn't really expect that. With out assistance I would say the sound is above average. It's actually damn loud with Ninja Chicken.
UPDATE: I use it in my office all the time, no problem hearing music or movies over the stupidly
The item is amazing really like the sensation of the item in my arms, not much distinction with the primary actually even though the back is nasty it still seems like high quality. Love along with its black making it seem very fantastic at different periods like in the black and mild periods. The display lighting is actually fantastic no gripes what so ever, don't seem to know why people really hassle about the display its better than most in the marketplace. Price is fantastic for this item, you are not losing out on any thing like the big costly ones. Would definitely suggest it!!!!
Some of the best factors about this tablet:
*It's able to run Display programs
*Full key pad dock
*customizability (Apple doesn't want you playing with anything except maybe where you put the applications on the screen)
*The capability to create on most photo printers using Search engines Cloudprint (Apple airprint allows you create on certain photo printers, but the record is short)
*Comes with Polaris Workplace (like Ms 'office' and suitable with office and succeed and energy point)
*Much more suitable with a PC
*You can slightly management your PC using this product (really cool!)
*Way more applications than I believed there would be with all the buzz about Apple's App Shop having more - I have an iPhone and so I know there are gazillions of options there, but if I didn't know better, I wouldn't have observed the distinction.
* You can use your PC to obtain applications straight to the TF300 without linking it or anything.
*There's a gadget you can use to destroy all the operating applications to preserve battery power pack.
All new - 40% faster performance, twice the memory, longer battery life
Perfect portability - thin, light, and durable
Over 22 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, books, audiobooks, and popular apps and games such as Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, HBO GO, Pandora, and Angry Birds Space
Ultra-fast web browsing over built-in Wi-Fi
Integrated support for Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and more, as well as Exchange calendar, contacts, and email
Free unlimited cloud storage for all your Amazon content
Kindle FreeTime - a free, personalized tablet experience just for kids on the new Kindle Fire. Set daily screen limits, and give access to appropriate content for each child
Prime Instant Video - unlimited, instant streaming of thousands of popular movies and TV shows
Kindle Owners' Lending Library - Kindle owners can choose from more than 180,000 books to borrow for free with no due dates, including over 100 current and former New York Times best sellers
Introduction
The $199 Amazon Amazon kindle fire was what the the technical fraternity prefers to money a "game-changer." A system with the potential to irrevocably modify a industry of the industry, by providing something we've never seen before.
But, a fully fledged Android operating system product with a top-level environment of multi-media content for less than half the cost of its opponents didn't just change the experience, it modified the game.
The Search engines Nexus 7 lately came for a $199 ($249 for 16GB) loaded with a variety of top stage specifications and the latest edition of Android operating system in tow, while the cost for Android operating system pills in general has dropped significantly with more discounts (like the Acer Iconia 300) on the way.
Relate that with a year ago when RIM was still trying to hoodwink us into paying $400+ for the DOA BlackBerry PlayBook?
But the trend Amazon started with its 7-inch Android operating system 2.3 Gingerbread product, which Amazon vigilantly plotted for the last few years off the back of its Amazon kindle e-reader achievements, has been hopped upon by Search engines and co, and now the Amazon kindle Fire encounters competitors from designs with enhanced specifications and application, for the same cost. How does it stand-up now against the changing industry it created?
Amazon's idea is simple. It considers (and truly so) that it can duplicate the success of its all-conquering Amazon kindle audience gadgets by once again taking a hit on the components.
The built-in environment of guides, publications, applications and films Amazon offers allows it to do what RIM, LG, New samsung, Samsung can't and what Apple has no reason to; give up the most crucial that successful components is the key - a major that Search engines has now implemented with the Nexus 7 competing.
The Amazon kindle Fire is the first Amazon kindle to feature a color screen, a ultimate goal to some customers of the product. And with a 7-inch 1024x600 show it drops at small sized end of the product area. With a skinned edition of the now-dated Android operating system 2.3
it's also the first step to run anything other than Amazon's non-native application.
When Amazon declared the Amazon kindle Flame, and its cost, enjoyment was at high temperature message. But it stayed a system none of us had ever seen or performed with. What would be the use of a $200 Android operating system product that doesn't work, has a dreadful touchscreen show or cart, useless software? We grabbed a system on release day, so it's time for the buzz to decrease and for the examining to begin.
* Featuring and Notes: much simpler to use and accessibility with Kindle
* Kindle Loaning Library: this may be Amazon's response to B&N's in store free reading
* System is Less heavy and Smaller: simpler to transportation, though small sized size and lighter in weight do not help you to handle
* Support: Amazon's product assistance is tale, in my book. B&N launched a software upgrade for Place Simple Contact once that split Wi-Fi, they rejected to recognize the problem for many several weeks, and took over 2 months to fix it. Inexcusable.
What's good:
* Tiniest, least heavy e-ink Kindle available.
* Still has the site turn buttons!
* Like all the e-ink Kindles, this factor has awesome life cycle of power supply.
What's just OK:
* Only 2GB storage. More is better. Then again, after two years of purchasing guides I'm nowhere near stuffing this factor up.
* Written text access using the 5-way change performs, but that's about all. I'm amazed it performs well enough that I can't consider it a bad.
What's not so good:
* The illuminated protect expenses nearly as much as the Kindle! Anyone considering choosing up this Kindle and the illuminated protect should look at the new document white-colored designs with incorporated frontlight.
