a few days ago, I gave you my first impressions of the Kindle Fire HDX version 7 inches. Here’s what I think after a week of use.
The Kindle Fire HDX hands
For use primarily focused on reading, one of the key points for a tablet is comfort in hands. After a week of use, I have to distinguish two uses: with and without the cover Origami
.
With the cover, the weight is higher, but the sense of security is significant, with the added comfort provided by the fact that the tablet goes to sleep and wakes up automatically. You get used to very quickly, as the reading lights. I expressed reservations because access to volume control and power are not possible once the cover laid back.
In use, the power button is never used when the cover is used, and the volume buttons are not really important to use reading.
Without cover, you lose course safe and you can forget the ignition and set automatic standby (quickly get there), but we appreciate better the natural ergonomics of the tablet and its lightness. It is also very comfortable to hold in hands, even over long periods. It is against a little slippery, and we could possibly blame him back a very sensitive to fingerprints.
buttons that I found hard to find in my first taken in hand are actually easy to find, and their location on the edges no problem to use.
A screen above the rest
Is this the best screen on the market? Hard to say without objective measures, but tests have shown its superiority at least on the iPad Air and from my point of view, it is well above the lot. Each ignition tablet, sharpness and colors are impressive, more than other models on the market that I have seen yet. So I showed many people the tablet, which all had the same impression.
The interest of this resolution and the color rendering is very different depending on whether one consults books with color illustrations (comics, illustrated books, magazines) or text
pure.
For the illustrated text, the screen brings a lot, while for text only, the extra comfort does not fundamentally alter the experience.
The high performance
No complaints on that side: the tablet offers an experience of a rare fluidity. Although with a quad processor 800 Snapdragon 2.2 GHz supported by 2GB of ram, a processor Adreno 300 Fire 3 OS which has clearly been well optimized, and Wi-Fi dual band dual antenna tablet is a true racing machine. Even after a week, we are surprised by the fluidity of experience compared to other devices.
Carousel Coupled with content, it can offer the experience more fluid navigation that I have ever tested to date. This is a very good point to use, because the fact of no longer feeling any latency applications and expect very little when displaying a heavy web page or magazine page is an important element for the comfort of the user.
interface: love it or not
Loved use interface of the Kindle Fire on a daily basis for use “view content” where the proposed experiment is disarmingly simple. But on the other hand, I naturally placed this tablet in the recreation category. As stated in the Amazon slogan for this tablet: Play, work, play …
In reality, the interface does not seem really appropriate for the work. One imagines his last look badly PDF relationship between Angry Birds and photos of youngest in the carousel. As useless to expect to organize your experience in your own way, or to be able to use the tablet in a manner different from that provided by Amazon. Everything here is very little formatted and configured.
A limited supply of digital content for playback
In the field of digital reading, the Kindle name might suggest in terms of reading, the tablet is fully equipped. And yet, this is where it gets a little.
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But digital reading is not limited to ebooks. In the Kindle Store, there are many of the comics, but in terms of magazines and newspapers, the supply is very limited. O n is far from that proposed for example the Apple booth, which has just welcome 23 new titles, and even though that Kobo has just embarking with eMagazines offers more titles.
Then we can find a few titles off the Kindle store (like Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire) , but a centralized like Apple would be more significant system. Side kiosks available as an application, we fortunately found (only) Relay, which offers a wide choice.
regard precisely the applications, those playing the role of kiosk content, or specialized applications in the news (such as news aggregators or applications Timeshift) are generally on many other application stores. They are much less at Amazon.
Sure, Amazon selects the best applications, which avoids many test applications completely useless, but it does not explain everything. Thus, it is not Youboox or Izneo example, even if the applications most known news are present, you do not necessarily have the latest features. For example, Flipboard does not yet offer the “personal magazine”
function, proposed a long time now elsewhere.
hard to know if it is application store App Shop which does has not yet won any developer or if it is Amazon that closes the door to some potentially competing actors, but one thing is certain: the choice is more limited than on iOS or Google Play.
Finally, if you want to have maximum choice, this is not where you find it. We must recognize that everyone does not need to have access to all applications. The App Shop Amazon focused on bestsellers, which should also to many users.
The reading on the Kindle Fire HDX
Read on Kindle Fire HDX is a very comfortable experience for a tablet of course. Without the cover (easy to remove since it takes by magnetization), the tablet is light and can spend hours in hands. For ebooks, access speed and sharpness of the screen bring a little more, but it is ultimately not in this area that the tablet shines the most.
For magazines, I was surprised by the comfort provided in this area by the power of the tablet. Pages appear quickly, and the screen is so reactive that having to zoom in or out no longer a problem. And resolution and screen colors expresses in this area their full potential.
For applications or reading a few large files, the power of the tablet really makes a difference. Finally, surf the internet, Wi-Fi Dual-band dual antenna coupled to the Silk browser provide a very fast experience, and therefore particularly valuable.
Another good point, automatic brightness brings to my mind a lot. The light conditions vary considerably during the day, and tablet adapts alone. Tablet owners know: the brightness manually rarely changes, which means it also rarely adapted to the situation. In practice, it makes a real difference.
But another good point of the tablet is the organization that is really simple and fast access content. For someone who regularly read or change activity, the historic Carousel becomes extremely effective.
In conclusionThe tablet is one of the best I have had in hands. I loved the fluidity of the experience, the quality of the screen, and ease of use in the context of use “consultation content.” Brightness that automatically adapts is very nice use. For those only interested in reading ebooks, a Kindle Fire tablet HD 139 € will be ample, even the 2012 model to 99 €. For others, the 7-inch tablet HDX is necessary and will not disappoint, if not to be put off by the very oriented user interface “content.”
If we talk about the couple-shelf ecosystem, the going gets tough … or not, as needed. Especially if you want to read ebooks without necessarily collecting applications of all stakeholders, and want to discover a few magazines, some comics and reading apps like Flipboard or pocket, then Amazon will give you complete satisfaction. For more demanding in terms of choice, perhaps accustomed to the variety on offer Google Play or iOS, it is not certain that the couple-shelf ecosystem entirely satisfactory.
will be hard to compete with Amazon on the tablet itself, so it is now the supply side that progress, starting with offer a catalog of more solid magazines, increasing the range of applications available, and perhaps also trying to offer the French consumer services such as Freetime (advanced parental control) FreeTime Unlimited (offering content for children Unlimited $ 2.99 / month) and others that are still not available in France.
The tablet is in any event a great success, and is offered at a starting price of € 229 very attractive given the qualities she demonstrated.
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