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| Kindle Fire Sacrifices To $ 200 |
The Kindle has always been the odd name of the product. Amazon verb used the name of the story, and begs the question: what is the Kindle? Now we have the answer: fire.
Fire is the first Kindle in color, touchscreen Kindle. It is available in the United States on Monday for $ 199.
A price for what it is essentially a small iPad is related to the light of the flames wanted this holiday season. I want to cool a little, or some of you will buy the brand and feel burned.
Fire is the best Kindle, however, no doubt. It's amazing that costs half the first Kindle that cost four years ago, even as much as the books of the screen.
This is more of a general purpose computer to an e-reader. It shows movies, TV shows and Web pages. He did it by e-mail and lets you play games. You will have the opportunity to obtain a reading, with so many things to do.
But it must be weighed against the competition. When you do this, it becomes clear that alternative, Amazon had to hold the device in the limbo of the price level of $ 200.
The Kindle design is even darker than the iPad. This is a black monolith with a single button - switch on - and led to two headphones and power. All orders are on the screen.
The screen is 7 inches diagonally, slightly larger than the lights in black and white and a little 'less than half the size of the iPad. The small size of the fire is not as portable as the iPad, fits nicely in a purse, for example.
Screen size was not much question in the light of one color, because they were mostly a good display of text in other ways. But the response of fire color display opens up a lot of opportunities, such as the exhibition of magazines and comics pages.
Here, the small size of the screen is on the way. It's too far from standard page sizes for justice. Pages of Look magazine sensitive. Amazon has to jump through hoops to be playable, as such, a mode that displays only the text. However, leafing through a magazine is still much work - and this is something that should not be like work.
Color Nook Barnes & Noble, launched last year, have the same problem - Nice color screen is too small. The iPad can be corrected, a few hundred dollars more.
While we're on the topic of "too small", referring to the memory of the fire. It has 8 gigabytes of storage. That's enough to more books than you'll ever read, but 10 films will eat the whole thing.
The iPad's cheapest, costing $ 499, has a memory twice. Corner of color, which costs $ 199, also 8 gigabytes, but comes with a slot for memory expansion cards with cheap. I do not understand why the fire did not slot that way. The Kindle is the first. There is no step-up model of the fires with more memory.
Amazon says that the fire does not need more memory, because the company offers online storage space where you can stuff all your music and other content. It works when you have a Wi-Fi coverage, but not otherwise - Fire has the ability to use mobile phone networks, as part of a single color model do not.
The fire was not a camera and a microphone. They are not things you expect from an e-reader (the Nook also the lack of them). But are standard on the shelves and are very useful, especially for video conferencing. Their absence is excusable to $ 199.
The color screen inevitably means that the battery life suffers compared with electronic readers taking energy-using monochrome displays. Amazon takes time to eight hours of reading, compared to about 30 hours to touch 99 million new Kindle, which has a monochrome touch screen and is designed only for playback.
Four software based on Google Inc Android software used in a variety of smartphones and tablets that compete with the iPad. Nobody has really taken with the exception of some color range Nook. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says it's because other pills missing an ecosystem of nature offers on Apple iTunes: an integrated market for books, movies, music and programs.
Amazon has done a good job of creating his own shop. Buy and download books and movies is fast - if you buy on Amazon.
People complain about how Apple is dictated by access to the iPhone and the iPad, Amazon, but the lights have always been more severe, and the fire is only slightly deviates from this strategy.
You can not buy copy-protected books to anyone, but Amazon and expect them to play with fire, as you can on the iPad. Even the corners allow third books. Amazon realizes that control the operation of its own application store, other than the Android Market by Google. Intelligent people will find a way around this and install any application they want, but most people do not want to bother.
You can celebrate on Amazon app allows excellent Comixology Comics on Fire. This means that there is no need to buy comic books on Amazon, and you are limited to fire has been built (and worse) Comics browser. It 'also let Netflix and Hulu Applications for streaming services on the device, its streaming service to compete with Amazon.
So the fire does justice to fiction and film, but the iPad is better in almost every way, especially in the variety of applications, which is about 50 times larger than the fire.
If the step up to $ 499 is too much, you could consider Nook tablet, released Friday. At $ 249, will be the same size as the fire, but with twice the memory, and a memory expansion slot. Not have access to all applications of goodies and the Amazon, but will have to Netflix and Hulu. Check out before jumping into the fire.
