A refined design back to contents
Amazon setting an interesting format for its large size pad: 8.9 inches, or stack between the iPad and the iPad Mini Air. The screen of 16:10 is a good compromise between 4:3 and 16:9 iPad e too narrow in portrait most Android tablets.
Fashion But what strikes especially at first contact with the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 inches, is its weight! It’s simple, we never saw a tablet “large format” as light and therefore comfortable to hold with one hand. It was precisely the defect that could address the previous Kindle Fire, which is rather annoying for a tablet also focused on reading.
wins as much finesse, losing to the passage rounded lines in favor of a more angular back, but always covered with a “soft touch” material. In contrast, the stereo speakers are no longer surrounded by metal, but glossy plastic attracting fingerprints: less class
accompanies the release of the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX a new cover Origami!. The name aptly describes the accessory: the cover folds back to act as a foot, and finally if we can find the direction of bending, not obvious from the first time. The angle is well suited to playing as the video, and also appreciates the magnetic attachment of the tablet that allows for easy removal. In contrast, the double cover the weight of the whole, and the leather version will cost you 69 euros anyway!
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The HDX Kindle Fire, Amazon integrates its heart a safe bet Qualcomm Snapdragon 800. The quad-core 2.3GHz chip is already used in many high-end smartphones, and some tablets like the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Samsung. The chip is more efficient, in particular on its graphics, Adreno 330 being one of the best time of the mobile GPU. Tests on the chip and its graphic part confirmed: the Kindle Fire HDX is a little less than an iPad Air but still gets good or very good results Note that we have not been able to run Geekbench 3 , it is not available on the Amazon App Shop at the time of the test.
Amazon did not skimp on the quality of the screen: LCD 8.9-inch IPS panel is just beautiful. With a resolution of 2560×1600 pixels, the screen HDX offers a pixel density rarely seen on a tablet than the iPad Air, Nexus 10 and even mini iPad Retina. The colors are true and contrasting angles impeccable vision: there is simply nothing to say about this screen
The tablet is available in 16, 32 or 64 GB, with bearings! honest 50 euro between each capability, and incorporates 2GB of RAM. No Micro SD slot, however. Wireless side, the classic: Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.0, but no GPS chip
Autonomy was the highlight of the Kindle Fire HD, and we can say that. HDX equipped with a battery of 4600 mAh, is also out with honors. Our self test video, it is certainly a little less than an iPad Air, a Surface 2 or Asus T100, yet it proves endurance with a little more than 7 hours of HD streaming with screen background, its 50% and Wi-Fi enabled.
enthusiasts capture photo on a tablet device 8 Mégapixels/1080p find the back, complete with a 720p webcam on the front. And in practice, what happens? For a tablet, the result is correct, with detailed images, although quite noisy, and fairly accurate color rendition.
In use: the store that you never spell back to contents
Amazon is primarily a content provider, such as digital books, music, video (in the U.S.), games and applications. And logically, the Kindle Fire, which after all multimedia developments Kindle remain kiosks Amazon content. It may of course make their own videos, photos or music, but the primary goal is to be the best way to consume dematerialized from Amazon, and this tablet does its job perfectly: components allow to have a very good experience for games as for videos.
This approach dictates
interface Integrated Fire tablet OS, provided here in version 3.0, codenamed watered …: Mojito. As a reminder, Fire is an Android OS derivative that does not bear his name. Much more than a wrapper, it only keeps the technical basis for proposing Android interface based on content, always in the foreground. The home screen also mixing apps, music and books. Navigation is also a great fluidity and quite nice.
For each category, the interface is divided into 3 sections. cloud, which lists all the available apparatus, which filters those downloaded locally and Boutique, which refers to the respective download kiosk
This feeling of being enclosed in a large Amazon application is necessarily very different from what we are used on a tablet, even if Apple, Google or Microsoft put forward their applications and content kiosks in the heart of their interfaces. For Amazon, you buy a Kindle Fire to consume content: applications mail, calendar and contact management are present, but they are more accessories. They prove functional, and can be particularly easily connect to an Exchange or Gmail account, but not anymore.
Similarly, the Silk browser is a special kind. Integrating technology acceleration of web pages, it puts them cached on Amazon’s servers, a feature can be disabled. We notice when even large annoying lag when browsing, especially by using the zoom in and out.
Amazon approach has not only disadvantages: it provides at least one immediate access to Kindle books and stored on the Cloud Drive music, which now includes all albums purchased physically at Amazon, for some they are available in digital format. Basically, if you are a regular customer of the website, there is a good chance your tablet happens to you, preconfigured as usual, with direct access to the content provided.
However, it remains the major drawback of this “fork” of Android without the Play Store. The application purchases necessarily pass through Amazon’s own booth. It did seem fairly provided, but it is not at all uncommon to stumble on an unavailable application, where with a version behind. And most importantly, it is obviously impossible to repatriate apps you already purchased the Play Store. We can however enable external sources to install APK files directly
We can also blame Amazon’s insistence on continually push content to sell. It is obviously the case of versions supported by advertising. A little cheaper, they display offers the screensaver. It is invasive, but well integrated. But the home screen is also dotted with contextual recommendations, which can be annoying in the long run.
Kindle Fire HDX is it a good Kindle? back to contents
A Kindle Fire is a tablet, but it also remains first and foremost … a Kindle! And knowing that Amazon also offers its reading apps for iOS, Android and Windows, we can ask what is the advantage of the tablet Amazon vs. its competitors
The answer is obvious. Amazon reserves necessarily a substantially greater experience in its own tablet. Not on the main features found in the Kindle apps, but quite small, exclusive details. Thus, the reading module of the Kindle Fire has the X-Ray feature, already enjoyed on Kindle “classic”. It analyzes the content of a book to represent visually the apparitions of places or characters, and easily find a particular passage.
small gadgets that make the difference, it may be noted, in addition to dictionaries, a module for machine translation of a highlighted passage with speech reproduction. The data are from Bing, and relevance of translations appeared quite effective on English.
Obviously, with such a screen, reading comics via the Kindle app catalog or a third as Comixology, is a real treat. In general, the combination of a high quality screen and a design for comfortable use in a hand made miracles. Kindle Fire HDX is undeniably one of the best tablet for readingConclusionKindle Fire 8.9-inch HDX has everything to be a good tablet:
a thin and light design, excellent quality screen, a fast processor and a nice, simple interface, however, it is necessary to recall. it is not intended for everyone. The Amazon regular customers, especially those who come from Kindle, enjoy the “advanced reading light” side. Who already has a library provided on the kiosk download books, Kindle Fire is a good way to get into high gear with a tablet to add music, games and applications with ease, and in enjoy in excellent conditions.
However, if your needs are more advanced and “agnostics” Amazon’s approach will be a big handicap. Although the Amazon App Shop offers a fairly extensive selection, it is always frustrating to come across an unavailable application, and especially having to buy paid applications already available on other Android devices. In addition, we can not say that the bundled applications (web browser, mail client …) shine especially by their quality.
Well, if you do not have the patience to wait for the community s ‘deals with the case of the Kindle Fire HDX, you may need more interest to turn to an alternative, such as the Nexus 7 or LG G Pad, despite the price / performance ratio attractive: the tablet is priced at 379 euros … With ads, or 394 euros without. As you see, so if you are willing to accept its closed ecosystem and compromise.more
- Excellent screen
- Finesse / weight
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- No Play Store
- Closed on Amazon
- Advertising on basic versions
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