Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab 7.0

Find out which is the best tablet..

As mentioned above, the Fire gets by with the same silicon that powered the PlayBook: a dual-core 1GHz TI OMAP chip, but here paired with only 512MB of RAM. Perhaps it's the step down from the standard 1GB, or perhaps it's the heavy-handed software overlay running atop Android, but the Fire never delivers smooth, seamless performance.

While Amazon's own carousel of recently used items is slick and smooth, we had inconsistent results with APKs we sideloaded on here. Amazon's own media players work well, but third party ones that offered better compatibility with file formats universally did not. That said, 2D games like the omnipresent Angry Birds ran without issue, and simple 3D games like Fruit Ninja had no problems either.

Given the Fire has no access to the Android Market many of our favorite benchmarks were unavailable to us. We were able to sideload Nenamark and Nenamark 2, but running the second caused the Fire to crash. Hard. After resetting the device (it takes just over 30 seconds to boot, for the record) we opted to stick with web-based benchmarks.

Of those, the Fire achieved a respectable average score of 2,440 on SunSpider 9.1. Given the mysteries of Amazon's Silk browser, which offloads at least some of the rendering to the company's servers in the cloud, we're not 100 percent confident in that score -- especially since browser performance itself didn't wow us (more on that in a moment). But, as it's meant as a test of client-side rendering, it should be fair.

You wouldn't know it, but the Fire is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. That's the phone-friendly version of the OS that hasn't shown up in a top-tier tablet for quite some time. But don't fret that too much as it's been quite comprehensively buried here. So, let's start with what's been piled on.

Source : Engadget

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[ivanpenkovv]

iPad load quick because only iPad doesn't load Flash content ......

[MrHomoSapience1]

Палец вверх, кто руский! )))

[kdhs23]

I hate everything apple does so I would never ever in life get an ipad no matter how smooth the scrolling is... android is way way better in many ways (cyanogenmod, htc, developer's apps, custom roms, etc.)

[uRnotGOODLikeME]

@MyPlatinumRecords100 lol you are an idiot LOL

[uRnotGOODLikeME]

@Masterz13 ipad are no fun too big and unfortunetly they never made ipads for men so i was unable to get one

[Masterz13]

@MyPlatinumRecords100 You can't play that card anymore. Amazon itself does a comparison between the two on their site. The Kindle Fire is a tablet. Can it do e-reading? Of course, but all tablets can via that Kindle app. It's good for $199, but if you have the money, get the iPad. Kills the competition and has the greatest standards support (HTML5, etc).

[appleipodtouch2g]

@MyPlatinumRecords100 That makes no sense what so ever

[MyPlatinumRecords100]

You can't really compare the kindle fire to the iPad and blackberry play book. The kindle fire isn't a fletched tablet. It's a hybrid, which means its a combination between a tablet an an eReader. The iPad and playbook are designed to be a tablet.

[xXDThunder1399Xx]

Flash player kills the ipad

[zaxgamez]

Should I get the Kindle Fire or the iPod touch 4G White (8GB)

[zaxgamez]

What the fuck is with this other langauge?

[elmonomario07]

OLIMPIADAS?????