Comments on: Amazon could ship as many as 5M Kindle Fire tablets in Q4

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:42:00 +0000

Consider points below before buying Kindle Fire:
- Amazon confirmed that you cannot download anything to Kindle Fire when traveling outside US.
- Kindle Fire (or any other Kindle) doesn’t have microSD (or any other) card slot thus it is stuck with 6 GB USABLE internal storage unlike other tablets/ereaders that can get up to 32 GB card in to increase content capacity. Kindles are made to make sure you’re tied up to Amazon’s storage on the web (for which you need Wi-Fi connection to
get to) and you can only store content you get from Amazon there, not other files. Quoting Amazon on Kindle Fire: “Free cloud storage for all Amazon content”. Get it, Amazon content?
- The stats of how long the battery can last (Kindle Fire theory is 7.5 hours) are taken with Wi-Fi off. It will last about 3 hours if you use it to access content from their Cloud storage over Wi-Fi.
- Amazon can spy on your web activity through their new cloud-integrated web browser of Kindle Fire.
- VERY IMPORTANT – lack of microSD slot means that if you decide to”root” your Kindle Fire (or any other Kindle) you’ll have to “root” the actual device thus there will be no coming back. On other devices you can make it boot from a “rooted” microSD card and if you want to get back to the
original Operating System you can just take out the card and reboot, and you can go back and forth between different images of various OS’s.
- Kindle Fire doesn’t have a camera.
- Kindle Fire has about 70% less usable screen area than iPad 2.
- Kindle doesn’t support eBooks in ePub format that is the most used format in the world.
- Kindle app store contains only Amazon approved apps and it does not include (and will not include) Netflix app that other tablets/ereaders have thus again you’re stuck with Amazon content only.
- Amazon says it will review every app in its Appstore for Fire compatibility, as part of an automated process. Rejected apps will include those that rely on a gyroscope, camera, WAN module, Bluetooth, microphone, GPS, or micro SD. Apps are also forbidden from using Google’s Mobile Services (and in-app billing), which, if included, will have to be “gracefully” removed. In terms of actual content, Amazon has outlawed all apps that change the tablet’s UI in any way (including theme- or wallpaper-based tools), as well as any that demand root access (it remains to be seen how the company will treat the root-dependent apps already in its store) – this is what “rooting” can help with.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:33:00 +0000

BEWARE: “majankajan” a.k.a “casandrasdream” is known troll on DISQUS, I advise moderators to take a notice!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:58:00 +0000

It is a mistake to believe that the low price is the major lure of Amazon’s Fire. Whispersync, Cloud storage, the Amazon Eco System, Silk a zippy processor and great display spec’s add up to more than just a loss leader selling price. Since the build quality is from the same company apple has used, it may be sold a low price but it is not cheap junk and will sell .

By: majankajan

majankajan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:13:00 +0000

Sorry wp7, With No apps and No games its hard to compete.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:10:00 +0000

Well, Amazon has to practically give it away for it to sell.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Im hoping to see a same priced competitor with a real tablet swoop in.before this thing hits.. thus is just a color reader with a bad (for a reader) screen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:28:00 +0000

Far better tablets out there. Enlighten us, what can you do with your tablets far better? A touchpad does flash far better than honeycomb tablets..

So let’s nullify the browser and ask: what can you do on your tablet better than iPad2? Games? No… Point of purchase software? Not really… Music creation, not by a long shot.

An uber honeycomb tablet is like a ferarri with no road.. an iPad is a Porsche on the autobahn.. nearly limitless.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:08:00 +0000

If the only comparison is price that you have use to determine whether or not this will compete with the iPad2, than you are mistaken…. the iPad is popular because it is part of the Apple brand, and fan boys will always buy bags of poop with the Apple logo on it. There are far better tablets out there, in terms of performance and technology. The Fire is one of many, many tablets that out run the iPad. Amazon had no choice but to low ball the competition. this is not a unique selling proposition or at least a weak one…