Amazon Kindle Fire Hands-On Review! - Tekzilla

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Amazon's Kindle Fire is the latest attempt to destroy Apple's iPad dominance in the tablet marketplace. AppJudgment's Stephanie Chu joins us with her hands-on review of the $200 Android tablet! Does the low price make it worth it? How are the apps? Find out here!

Get your own Kindle Fire Here:
http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Fire-Amazon-Tablet/dp/B0051VVOB2

Check out Stephanie's first look and Top 5 Kindle apps on AppJudgment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBZH6Q63JoE
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[ChicagoClout]

That would be nice for many poor people in Chicago Illinois also. Chicago has many areas where folks are staving to death.

[razputen91]

@Hulkmania316 i just did a report on ecuador in my spanish class, so...

[Hulkmania316]

I live in Ecuador and I want to buy that Kindle Fire, but sadly it only works in the USA, nowhere else.

[paxpaul]

@bigdima3 The review is far from glowing, and she doesn't exactly push the Fire in her conclusion. In fact, she points out that it's mostly for people who already are into Amazon content. It was a far less positive review than most have been.

Also, why the assumption that unless she says something negative, she's biased? Maybe there's nothing really negative to say about the Fire, in her (and my) opinion.

Really, I think you are looking at a different Fire than we are, bigdima5.

[bigdima3]

@mari1ee oh wow :) Is it really you?

To be honest with you i thought you were doing a biased review to promote the product. That's cuz i can't remember you saying anything negative about the product.

Yours truly, the anonymous guy.

[mari1ee]

@bigdima3 Really? That'd be awesome if Amazon wanted to pay me. But sadly, I used my own money to buy the device and made my own opinions.

Yours truly, the Asian lady.

[bigdima3]

@paxpaul

Physical buttons are more natural, everyone prefers them. I'm sure there is a better psychological explanation. I don't even want to image how painful it is when you have to activate the whole device just to change the volume whilst listening to music on standby.

Plus, the Kindle Fire is crazily unstable. I wouldn't be surprised if the tablet exploded whilst reading an e-book or browsing the web. Now imagine you trying to change the volume and the device is not responding.

[paxpaul]

@bigdima3 "A mission?" Seriously, that's a joke, right? On a regular device, you have to reach for the volume control and push/slide/roll it: That's two small steps. (Put finger on control, move control.)

On the Fire, you have to tap the top of the screen and then slide the slider bar: Again, two small steps. (Tap finger on screen and slide finger.) That's all.

If that's a "mission" to you, I'm surprised you can work with computers at all.

[bigdima3]

Oh god, looks like the Asian lady got paid by Amazon to do the review.

[bigdima3]

@paxpaul The absence of the volume buttons is a big deal for me and almost every tablet user.

It is one of the things that should be immediate. If you have to go through different steps just to reduce the volume then it becomes a mission.