Sunday, December 8, 2013

Jeff Bezos Amazon Kindle Fire HDX (c) Sipa - Challenges.fr

Amazon back on the tablet market with a product that moves. After an initial Kindle Fire and an HD version halftone, up to the third generation, the Kindle Fire HDX. Here is a 8.9-inch tablet that has the power priority.

Equipped with a quad core Snapdragon processor 800 2.2 GHz and 2 GB of RAM, the Kindle itself as being one of the most successful market shelves. It also has a screen with a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels, 339 pixels per inch, a beautifully crafted, for contrast and brightness of high quality. What rival the Retina iPad Mini.

In terms of design, the tablet offers a rather clean lines without much innovation. Note all the same rubberized back, the image of the Google Nexus 7 (see test). The buttons are placed on the back of the device. Not necessarily practical when it goes to sleep on a table.


An interesting hybrid format

format 8.9-inch hybrid is very sudden, between the 8.3-inch LG G Pad and a classic 10-inch tablet. But this is not so bad because it found the lightness of 7-inch tablets with a screen near 10 inches. The tablet weighs 379 grams weight for a very correct format. However, with a thickness of 7.8 mm, it is significantly larger -3 mm more-than the iPad Mini. A great effort to provide a compact product.

Fire HDX has a new operating system OS 3.0 Fire-the-Android-based Mojito but with a significant overlay dedicated to Amazon purchasing department. Just see where find (in first position at the top left) “Buy” tab to get to the facts: the tablet is seen as a perfect tool control in the shops of retail giant internet . Also note a significant range of almost 11 hours.

Sold from 379 euros for the base model (16 GB), the Kindle Fire HDX no longer tries to appear as a proposed at an extremely competitive price product, as could be the Kindle Fire at launch . It’s a good tablet that competes ipad Mini Retina without being able to compete with its interface and the AppStore. The Amazon App-shop displays less than 100,000 applications available. Almost 10 times less than the competition.

>> View test video:

>> The main technical characteristics:

– Dimension: 231x158x7, 8 mm

Weight: 379 grams

– OS: FIRE OS 3.0 Mojito

– Processor: Quad Core 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800

– RAM: 2GB

– Storage: 16, 32 or 64 GB

– Screen: 8.9 inches

– Resolution: 2560×1600 pixels / 339 dpi

– Camera: 8 million pixels

– Battery: up to 12 hours

– Price: from 379 euros

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