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Hi guys. I am a graduate student and I've been wanting to buy a tablet. Most out there are expensive and in terms of battery life, my 14" laptop with an SSD beats them all. Only problem is, of course, the size of the laptop.
So I have some questions regarding this kinde fire. Looking at the interface, it looks like a constricted version of android and as Besos said, its more of a multimedia device.
The main functions I'm looking for my tablet are: email, reading, viewing videos of PPT lectures, web browsing, watching movies occasionally. Without the tablet being rooted, would all this be possible or is it just for games, web surfing, and videos/music? I would like to leave my device unrooted for as long as possible.
Plus, looking at the specs, this thing would make an excellent android tablet.
Also, how does this GPU compare to the nVidia Tegra?
Thanks!
Get a reading device. A kindle (not Fire) offers quite a lot for a low price.
That's for the reading. For the other stuff, I would not know what to reccomend.
theomni said:
Hi guys. I am a graduate student and I've been wanting to buy a tablet. Most out there are expensive and in terms of battery life, my 14" laptop with an SSD beats them all. Only problem is, of course, the size of the laptop.
So I have some questions regarding this kinde fire. Looking at the interface, it looks like a constricted version of android and as Besos said, its more of a multimedia device.
The main functions I'm looking for my tablet are: email, reading, viewing videos of PPT lectures, web browsing, watching movies occasionally. Without the tablet being rooted, would all this be possible or is it just for games, web surfing, and videos/music? I would like to leave my device unrooted for as long as possible.
Plus, looking at the specs, this thing would make an excellent android tablet.
Also, how does this GPU compare to the nVidia Tegra?
Thanks!
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From what I have read the AF is built to be first and foremost an ereader. Games probably secondary especially with only 512MB of RAM (unless they are from Amazon App Store.) I could be wrong though.
If I were you, I would look harder at other REAL tablets and not closed garden ereaders like the AF appears to be. The dual core CPU would be great on an android tablet. It already is on many. And, by many accounts, quad cores are not too far away. Tabs that are tablets first though.
Price is important. Desired functions are more so. IMO.
Would I recommend? No.
I've been hearing that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus might be coming out with a price near $250. If that is the case, I'll get that instead. Luckily, I will have until the end of October to decide, since that's when the Samsung Tab will be releasing. However, I'm assuming/hoping that we will know its price by next week or so.
Hell, I'll be willing to pay upto $300 for it. I preordered the Kindle Fire with a leather cover for a total of $250.
theomni said:
I've been hearing that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus might be coming out with a price near $250. If that is the case, I'll get that instead. Luckily, I will have until the end of October to decide, since that's when the Samsung Tab will be releasing. However, I'm assuming/hoping that we will know its price by next week or so.
Hell, I'll be willing to pay upto $300 for it. I preordered the Kindle Fire with a leather cover for a total of $250.
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Wise move. A lot of new items will be released and I suspect many (if not most) in your price/needed specs range will far exceed the AF.
Wish I had these options in grad school!
You cold do this all on the NC for $150 or less, unrooted. Also, the NC can be rooted and custom ROMs are available.
I would say yes. Both quick office and documents to go are available in the amazon app store
A couple of people at work have mentioned the Amazon Kindle Fire in passing. I've looked at the specs, it looks pretty poor.
Several people have shown me their iPad 2 or HP tablet - huge 10.1" things.
One person has compared his iPad camera with my Galaxy Tab 7's camera and said the Galaxy Tab comes out better.
I can fit my Galaxy Tab in my pocket. It has Kindle for Android on it.
I chose my device carefully out of some really budget budget devices, and larger & more expensive devices.
Here you can now pick up a Galaxy Tab 7" 3G (GPS, Wifi) 16Gb for £399 from Tesco's Electronics dept, £349 from BestBuy, £299.99 from Tesco Direct (24hr wait, but the desk is in the store!) or £299.98 from PCWorld. I got mine from Tesco Direct, because it was a weekend and the nearest PCWorld that stocks them is over the road from work.
If you don't need 3G (I understand the Fire doesn't have 3G) I believe you can now pick up a 32Gb Wifi-only model from Asda (Walmart) for £249 ($387) and it will be an order of magnitude better than the Fire. There's also a heap of cheap things on eBay from China (that Maplin (Radio Shack) buy & resell with enormous margins)
When people ask me about it, I reply with:
Do you want a next gen Kindle, or do you want a tablet?
That seems to get them into the right frame of mind. The Fire is no more or less a next gen Kindle. It's aimed to compete against the Nook Color and the iPod Touch, being a portable media device.
thanks a lot guys! I actually just cancelled my preorder for the KF and bought the HTC Flyer.
FWIW smart move!
Now take a look at the adonit jot stylus. Amazing.
I've been looking for a pen/stylus to buy.
Would that work with the HTC flyer or am I better of buying the HTC scribe pen for it?
Gotta say I am not familiar with the stylus scribe for the HTC. One would presume an item custom made for a dedicated device would be preferable. I can say the adonit jot performs amazingly on the Transformer on SuperNotes!
You might try it out. If it doesn't work for you, return it. It would appear their Return Policy is liberal enough here.
At the moment I am in the US for the next 9 months, but after that im going back to Germany. I'm really considering picking up the Kindle Fire here and then just use it in Europe. The mean reasons I want the Kindle for are surfing, youtube, reading books, and maybe some apps (games or so). So my main question is now, wether the amazon app store will work in Europe? I don't care about the Cloud or smth, but about the apps. So do you think the apps will work in Europe?
Otherwise, I would propably buy a HTC Flyer which would be 100 bucks more and would propably not have as good hardware as the Kindle Fire (Dual Core CPU compared to Single Core CPU). So would you suggest me pickung up the Kindle Fire or the HTC Flyer?
I think the apps will work in europe. Only thing not working is the Amazon cloud.
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same HERE
http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2012/03/06/google-finally-gets-it-nexus-tablet-incoming-for-just-130/
being a nexus user for my phone....this had me interested...I already have my tf101 b60...not rooted yet to. But a new toy? Maybe!
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I am a bit skeptical to this. While we all love to pay as little as possible for our tablets, the reality is that at 130, either the device will not have the specs we want or there profit margins will be too low (and thus they won't sell it). As much as i hate to say it, i like that asus is making more expensive tablets. It means there tablets will have higher quality material so we can do more awesome things and the tablets will last longer.
Screw the price. I, like the nexus part lol. That means easily unlocked boot loader and unmolested Android starting point.
Edit that's also 130 UK. Closer to the kindle fire price I'm American.
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based on the price point they are trying to hit, I'm going to guess that the new Nexus tablet will be a 7 or 8" device. Asus isn't stupid enough to release yet another 10.1" device at a lower price than the just announced TF300.
I mean, maybe they will, but it doesn't make any real sense to do so. To have TF101, TF201, TF300, TF700 and Nexus tablet all in a 10.1" form factor, all with prices in different ranges when the specs are too similar... it just doesn't seem likely.
To hit the $200 price point and compete with the likes of Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, I'm betting on a smaller device.
Article said a 7" tablet. Prolly wifi only would be my guess. Which makes 200 just about right
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They're doing this to compete with Amazon, of course. The Kindle Fire sales might add Android devices to the market, but those devices will direct people toward Amazon marketing, not Google marketing. So.. Google probably wants Asus to make a cheap tablet that directs people back to Google markets and ads.
I love my transformer but I sure hope Asus isn't chosen make this tablet. They haven't successfully released a tablet since the first transformer. Don't get me wrong I think they make good products, but a lot would be riding on a Nexus branded tab. Android tablets lost momentum with Honeycomb and the Xoom launch. If Asus launches another tab the way they did the Prime with the Nexus name on it, Android tabs might never gain significant market share. I'm not sure who could do it but I don't think Asus is ready.
I'm thinking about picking one of these up tomorrow if the sale works out. Note that this sale was supposed to be last week, but they postponed it until tomorrow due to some technical difficulty.
http://reviews.cnet.com/marketplace/2748-32333_7-2096.html?tag=nl.e794&s_cid=e794&ttag=e794
I would be new to the Kindle Fire, but not Android. I have a Nexus 7, Evo LTE, and have owned and sold several other phones and tablets. This one interests me because it's a cheap option for the kids, and I would also like to take advantage of the free monthly kindle lending library book with my Prime account. The most important thing is to get the Play store on there so I can take advantage of my purchases. It looks like I can root the fire, install the play store, and a market opener app, unroot, and still keep the existing OS. I believe the original OS is required to use the extra Prime features (and also a couple of kids apps I've found exclusive to the kindle). I may eventually go with a CM10.1 based ROM in the future, but I would like to at least try the stock OS for the Prime features first.
One hesitation I have is the lack of storage for kids movies. I've seen the nook tablet refurbs for $80 over the holidays, which I know has 1GB ram and SD card slot, but the kf seems to have better software support both from the stock software to the custom development.
So, what do you guys think? Is this the best option for a sub-$100 tablet for kids?
If you install a custom rom (CM10.1) will the amazon market still recognize the tablet as a kindle fire, and can you still install the kindle fire edition apps?
UPDATED: Sale was changed to $70 from $75. Supposed to start tomorrow at 8AM PST.
Kindle Fire Refurbs for $75
It would be a very good choice to get a kindle fire. And if you wanted to go cheaper you could always buy a demo version on eBay for $50. Then root it and put stock ROM on it. That's what I did for my brother
tobiascuypers said:
It would be a very good choice to get a kindle fire. And if you wanted to go cheaper you could always buy a demo version on eBay for $50. Then root it and put stock ROM on it. That's what I did for my brother
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Thanks. I didn't realize about the demo units. They seem to end at about $55 on ebay, and many don't come with chargers. With the sale now at $70, I think I'll take the 90 day warranty and the ability to take back to best buy.
timtlm said:
Thanks. I didn't realize about the demo units. They seem to end at about $55 on ebay, and many don't come with chargers. With the sale now at $70, I think I'll take the 90 day warranty and the ability to take back to best buy.
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You won't be able to download Kindle Edition apps on the playstore if you put 10.1 on there. Personally, I would jump on this tablet for 70, after putting 10.1 on there it runs pretty smooth, does all I want it to, all around good media device. Not even jealous of my friend's nexus 7 .
This deal is live now for anyone interested. You need to enter the promo code "cnetkindle" when checking out.
I bought a brand new one for $100 bucks about 2 weeks ago on ebay , I havent gone custom rom yet , I have rooted (fff & twrp) , still contemplating losing the amazon stuff , I dont really read much so losing it isnt a big thing , I really like the size , I also have an Acer a500 and that is 10 inch , but the Kindle is actually the "just right size" (after my Galaxy Note) !
$70 is a great price for one of these, even if local storage isn't great. Thanks for the tip on the sale!
Its a sturdy device that my 3 yr old son loves. But we don't travel with it so we don't need local storage. Streaming via Netflix over WiFi is working fine for us.
I didn't care for the stock launcher or OS and so fixed that. But maybe you could just install a different launcher after getting the play store installed. Then you wouldn't lose your amazon perks.
Sold out.....
That's just how good our 1st gen KFs are!!!!
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I like Amazon tablet builds combined with custom roms. If it were not for custom roms, I would probably not consider buying another Amzon tablet. But theses babies will be fast. Each of the new HDX tablets houses a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and an Adreno 330 graphics processor. Comes stock with Amazon's bloatware 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Amazon is now taking pre-orders on all Kindle Fire HDX's. First KFHDX 7" with wifi only will ship October 18. It does not look like 8 Gig will be an option at this time (if at all.)
--------------------- 7" - 8.9"
Wi-Fi (16GB) $229 $379
Wi-Fi (32GB) $269 $429
Wi-Fi (64GB) $309 $479
4G (16GB) $329 $479
4G (32GB) $369 $529
4G (64GB) $409 $579
Yeah. No 8gb. They are not necessary though. In the long run you will find yourself wanting more space.
LinearEquation said:
I like Amazon tablet builds combined with custom roms. If it were not for custom roms, I would probably not consider buying another Amzon tablet. But theses babies will be fast. Each of the new HDX tablets houses a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU and an Adreno 330 graphics processor. Comes stock with Amazon's bloatware 4.2 Jelly Bean.
Amazon is now taking pre-orders on all Kindle Fire HDX's. First KFHDX 7" with wifi only will ship October 18. It does not look like 8 Gig will be an option at this time (if at all.)
--------------------- 7" - 8.9"
Wi-Fi (16GB) $229 $379
Wi-Fi (32GB) $269 $429
Wi-Fi (64GB) $309 $479
4G (16GB) $329 $479
4G (32GB) $369 $529
4G (64GB) $409 $579
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This tablet plus custom rom will be the perfect android tablet!
GhostNGoblins91 said:
It remains to be seen if the HDX will be jailbroken. If not, I will have to stick with the Nexus 7 for my go-to tablet.
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I'm sure it will be some time before an HTX gets rooted and longer for a 2nd bootloader exploit. Time will tell.
Looks like Amazon is ahead of schedule. At least they have charged my card today and they usually do it, when shipment is processed/you can no more cancel it or change in a simple way.
And my HDX is marked now as Shipping Now. I suppose it should left Amazon today or Monday as latest.
Hope so.
I got mine delivered yesterday. Great device. Even tried Mayday support and I was overall happy and impressed.
Android Cowboy said:
I got mine delivered yesterday. Great device. Even tried Mayday support and I was overall happy and impressed.
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How fast is the stock HDX over stock HD 7? More pep?
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LinearEquation said:
How fast is the stock HDX over stock HD 7? More pep?
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Definitely the HDX is much improved over the HD. The screen is the major difference but performance is obvious as well.
Lucky man!! I have doubt about 7 or 8.9 inch.. Really I like both.. The custom rom is the more important point. It is better than the new nexus 7..so... I will got one. The multiwindows like samsung tab will be perfect!
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madridfran said:
This tablet plus custom rom will be the perfect android tablet!
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Depends on your definition of perfect. Lack of SD card slot, lack of micro HDMI and bloatware Amazon OS based on old Jellybean version are major drawbacks, IMO.
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I just got an 8.9! That new financing deal amazon did is great, i can easily budget it and get one quick! I just flashed my first kindle fire for my girlfriend and she's using it like a brand new google tablet. I will say this though, this thing gets HOT with standard usage. It's so incredibly thin too, i'm so scared of breaking it. I've sideloaded things like chrome and a few other essentials that aren't on the amazon store and even found a way to get that 5 dollar credit by installing on another device. Cool stuff.