What Are The Features Of A Kindle Fire

Oct. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Going all the way back to the earliest Kindle e-readers, Amazon has shown a penchant for re-imaging its hardware with almost every product update. It’s a notable trait in an era where most other manufacturers seem content to deliver incremental updates.

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It’s especially laudable one when the re-imagined device is better than its predecessor in almost every conceivable way. The new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7-inch is such a device.

Externally, it’s almost unrecognizable from the first Amazon Kindle Fire launched about 10 months ago. That product had a reference-design look and, in hardware and software, an almost rushed feel. There was one protruding power button that users could trip at the most inopportune times, and the Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” underpinnings that, though Amazon tried to mask them, gave the overall Fire interface a too-small, overly technical feel.

Still, it had that seamless content-consumption environment. The product arrived preregistered with your Kindle account and it was just so easy to buy music, movies, and books.

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Building On a Solid Platform
The Kindle Fire HD 7-inch retains much of what was good about the first Fire. It’s still tightly interwoven with your Kindle account and makes gobbling up loads of Amazon-delivered content easier than ever.

It’s all that’s different about this new tablet, though, that sets it apart. First of all, though it’s a 7-inch, the device is actually larger than both the original Fire and competitive 7-inch tablets like the Google Nexus 7. Part of this is because the Kindle Fire HD puts its camera on the landscape side of the device, while the Nexus 7 puts it on the portrait edge. This makes the Kindle Fire HD almost a half-inch wider than the first Fire and the Nexus 7 (the Fire HD’s screen is just a couple of eights wider than the original Fire).

Despite being larger than the first Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 7 is actually, at 13.9 ounces, a smidge lighter than the original, and is not uncomfortable to hold or use. The somewhat boxy design has been replaced by a collection of rounded edges and more pronounced curves. The single button is gone. Now there are three: one for power and two for volume control. None of them stick out and it’s almost impossible to hit one by accident. This is an obvious improvement over the first Fire, though I still prefer the iPad’s more visible and easier-to-access home button to all other tablet options.

On the old Fire, you couldn’t find the tinny-sounding speakers. The new Fire HD sports a pair of speaker grilles on the back. Underneath are two powerful, Dolby Digital-controlled speakers that pump out surprisingly rich audio. There simply is no comparison to the old Fire. The Nexus features comparable audio, but from only one side of its body.

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The Real Competition
Google’s Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD, by the way, share the same 1,280 x 800 resolution. From a components perspective, the Kindle Fire HD has far more in common with the Nexus than it does the original Fire.

They’re also both Android 4 devices, though the Nexus 7 is running 4.1 and the Kindle Fire 4.0. While the Nexus 7 is pure Android, Amazon has pushed Android’s look and feel so far down I challenge anyone to find it.

Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, is the best Android tablet interface ever, and yet the Kindle Fire HD’s is better. Where Android 4.1’s home screen can seem cluttered with icons, Kindle Fire HD’s home screen can be boiled down to a main menu across the top (with links to, naturally, Shop, Games, Apps, Books, Music, Videos, News Stand, Audiobooks, Web, Photos, Docs and Offers), and the large carousel of icons below that text-only row.

The old Fire has a sort of dark-wood-paneled background (it was supposed to look like a bookshelf — how quaint). The Kindle Fire HD drops the artifice in favor of solid black. Both carousels feature a hodgepodge of games, apps, movies, docs … essentially whatever you touched last. The difference on the new Fire HD is that all the icons look better and the scrolling is, thanks to the new dual-core CPU, stutter-free.

The concept of “Favorites” remains, though you now access them via a star in the lower right-hand corner of the Fire HD’s screen.

Amazon redesigned the keyboard, putting more space between the keys — an improvement — and renaming backspace “Delete.” The latter is an odd choice since “Backspace” means one thing on a traditional keyboard and “Delete” another. They’re not actually interchangeable.

In this new interface, the back to previous activity arrow is always present in a narrow column on the right, which also houses Home and Favorites. Because of the design, the arrow can end up sitting next to the keyboard. I can’t tell you how many times I hit the back to previous activity button when I meant to hit “Delete” (which should be “Backspace”).

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