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Published on Nov 17, 2011 by

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Web browser on mobile devices is a huge feature that is sometimes a deal breaker for someone if the experience is not good. Right now the top browsers on tablets is Safari on the iPad using Apple's iOS platform and Android 3.o Honeycomb browser. Amazon looks to get in the ranks of top tablet browsers and at the same time create a better experience with Amazon Silk. The web browser looks like any other browser you would see on android. The interface isn't anything that revolutionary or something you have to learn. Its familiar and you'll know how to use it right away. What's different is what's happening in the background. Amazon is offloading all the complex and resource intensive parts of loading a webpage to their servers to get the page to load faster and more accurate to get close to a desktop link experience. For example Flash is processed on their servers while just a simple frame render is done on the tablet. In theory this should increase the speed in which pages load and the responsiveness of these pages once they load up. Offloading a big element like flash should make web browsing a lot better and give oyu access to many sites that still rely heavily on flash and haven't covered to a mobile page or to HTML 5 yet.

It works well and gets you to pages faster and plays resource heavy content a lot better. The smoothest of the browser needs to improved and there is some stutter and lag when you scroll up and down pages and doing pinch and zoom. However I'm excited for where this technology could go. With more improvement I can definitely see it being used on more things than just the browser on the Kindle Fire. Check out the video below and share your thoughts.

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  • @DWJ202 i know the comparison is between playbook and kindle fire 

  • @89forsakin Kindle Fire is for Reading Books, it's not a computer.

  • @TigerKurdish the support of android and amazon makes u forget the blackberry

  • thanks for the review.

    I have a question if you don't mind to give your opinion on it.

    I'm thinking to get the blackberry playbook so my question is how do you think this kindle fire compares to the playbook? the playbook is on sale here where i live for $199 for 16gb version which i think is a pretty good deal. would you think is the playbook better than the Fire? by the way does this one have hdmi out?

    thanks

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