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Sep 12
07:25

2012

Jack Chen

Jack Chen

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The Kindle Fire HD is the second generation of Amazon's color touchscreen Kindle Fire tablet line. It is available in two form factors,Buy Kindle Fire HD Online Articles 7 inch and 8.9 inch.

 

Buy Kindle Fire HD. The 8.9 inch version sports a 254 ppi 1920x1200 pixel HD display which allows text to appear crisp and is also available with 4G LTE. The 7 inch version has a 215 ppi 1280x800 pixel HD display which shows text crisp and video in 720p HD, but only available in WiFi.

 

Buy Kindle Fire HD online. The 7 inch version will be released on September 14th, while the 8.9 inch model will be released on November 20, 2012. But, it is available for pre-order as of September 6, 2012 in the United States and October 25, 2012 in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The operating system had a clean look to it, easy navigation, and the screens on both the 7-inch and 8.9-inch versions were brilliant. You can really see all 254 pixels per inch (ppi) packed into the display. This is something Amazon does very well; it's not Apple (AAPL_) in terms of clarity, but it's close. The screens seemed to smudge fairly easily, although that could've been a result of all the journalists playing with the products.

 

Kindle FreeTime, which lets parents set time limits on their kids using the device, was fairly easy to use. It took me no time to figure out how to set up time for a child to let them use the device for games or movies. If your kid wants to read books, there's no time limit on the device. While reading is something that should be encouraged, it's self-serving given that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he wants to make money when people use the device, not when they buy it.

While Amazon obviously closed the gap significantly, the iPad still has a bigger screen than the Fire.

 

Apple's iPad screen measures 9.7 inches diagonally, while the Fire is at 8.9 inches. That's less than the difference between the screen sizes on the iPhone 4S and the larger Samsung Galaxy S III smartphones. (There's speculation the iPhone 5 will have a larger screen).

Until now, the Kindle Fire has been a WiFi-only device, and some of its new models remain that way. But Bezos announced that the top-end version of the Fire HD is available in 4G.

 

The plan is offered at an attractive price of $50 a year. But that price gets you 250 MB of data per month -- not a lot for a device designed in large part to stream movies and other media.

 

It was unclear Thursday what the charges will be for going over the allotted data.

Kindle Fire tablet burst onto the scene ahead of the holidays last year and despite increasing competition in the tablet market, Amazon reeled in 22% of the tablet market in the United States with just one model. Amazon’s original Kindle Fire is the best tablet in the world at the sub-$200 price point according to the company, but Amazon seemingly aimed much higher with its new tablet lineup.

The 7-inch models ship Sept. 14. The larger 8.9-inch screen Kindle Fire HD, which costs at least $299 and comes with an even better 1920 x 1200 pixel screen, won't ship until Nov. 20.

 

Some aspects about the Kindle Fire HD sounded great but weren't testable in the short time that Amazon gave reporters to try out the devices Thursday.

 

For instance, it was impossible to tell whether Kindle Fire HD's two antennas made its performance  in Wi-Fi  noticeably faster than the latest iPad or Google's Nexus 7. Or whether its 11-hour battery  life held up for real.

 

In handling the device, though, I found that video played well and images looked sharp. But it was not as responsive as I would have liked. It seemed to lag when swiping through pictures or through the news feed on the custom-built Facebook app.

Amazon has upgraded the technology across the board and kept prices low (for the Wi-Fi versions, at least). Software features like Immersion Reading, X-Ray for movies, and Whispersync for games and voice continue to enhance an already impressive package.

 

Amazon has an opportunity here. If it can smooth out any performance issues, make timely and significant updates to its custom Android 4.0-based OS, and continue to broker significant deals with its movies, books, and TV show partners, we may finally have a real tablet race here.

 

The 7-inch Fire HD hits September 14, so look for a full review with our final impressions around then.