Member Login   l   Join Sokule™   l   Sokule™ Lingo   l   Make Money
Amazon Hot Deals Online Kindle Fire HDX 7 Tablet Review Part 1 Of 2


Amazon Hot Deals Online Kindle Fire HDX 7... by f1337746256



 


 


 


 


All-New Kindle Fire HDX 7" Tablet


7" HDX Display, Wi-Fi, Optional 4G LTE Wireless, 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB
















































































$229.00
Eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime.

Exclusive digital benefits with Amazon Prime




 















 



 

 
   

 



In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon Digital ServicesImportant information about using outside the U.S.






Want it Friday, Dec. 27? Order within 47 hrs 12 mins and choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details 



 








Also Available At: Best Buy and Staples


 
 
 

We want you to know...

Learn more about design decisions to help make an informed purchase


What's new

HDX display, faster processor, improved battery life... See 5 more

 
 
 
 

Perfect-color HDX display, plus powerful quad-core processor for fast, fluid performance and immersive entertainment




  • Exclusive 7" HDX display (1920x1200), high pixel density (323 PPI), and perfect color accuracy (100% sRGB) for vivid, lifelike images that go beyond standard HD

  • The fastest processor on a 7" tablet—powerful 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM for fast, fluid multi-tasking, gaming, and video

  • Introducing the "Mayday" button—revolutionary, on-device tech support, exclusive to Kindle Fire HDX tablets. Connect for free to an Amazon expert 24x7, 365 days a year

  • Stay productive on the go with ultra-fast web browsing, built-in OfficeSuite, and updated e-mail and calendar support for Gmail, Outlook, and more

  • Immersive entertainment experience—see trivia and character backgrounds with X-Ray for Movies and TV, follow along with lyrics with new X-Ray for Music, fling videos to your TV with Second Screen, and more

  • Over 100,000 apps and games available in the Amazon Appstore, including a new paid app for free every day

  •  In addition to Free Two-Day Shipping, Prime members can stream tens of thousands of Prime Instant Video titles at no additional cost, over half of which can be downloaded to the latest generation of Kindle Fire tablets. Learn more



 
 

 


Amazon Hot Deals Online I found this great review that goes into great datail about the Xbox One and what it can do.The Xbox One is the best Xbox yet and get it now at at Amazon hot deals online Today.

The good: Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX 7 is a performance monster that speeds through Web sites and UI pages at a frantic pace. The screen is impressively sharp and the small light design is comfy for reading books. Mayday is personal and near-instant customer service. Some small but smart UI changes lead to an overall more pleasant experience.

The bad: The remote video viewing feature isn't ready at launch and ad removal still costs an extra $15. 16GB is too small for 1080p movies and there's no built-in storage expansion. The screen is tarnished by a yellowish tint and the buttons on the back are sometimes hard to find. No Google Play access means many apps still aren't available.

The bottom line: Armed with a powerful processor and Amazon's exhaustive content library, the Kindle Fire HDX delivers incredible value for its price, especially for Amazon Prime members.

Not since free shipping has there been a better reason to become an Amazon Prime member than the Kindle Fire HDX 7. The new tablet is affordable, powerful, comfortable, and it boasts enough new and refined features to more than earn its $229 (starting) asking price.

 

With prices like that it's no wonder that as PC sales decline tablets have been on the rise. However, tablets are just as commoditized now as PCs were in their heyday. Apple arguably created the tablet market, and the iPad still rules the high end; an endless array of Android clones fight it out at the low end, with both sides squeezing the middle.

Enter Amazon and its new Kindle Fire HDX tablets. The new HDX tablets -- the third generation of the Kindle Fire brand -- shoot toward the top of the tablet hierarchy thanks to three notable features: excellent pricing that's competitive with the best premium tablets on the market; an awesome content ecosystem (especially for Amazon Prime members) that goes toe-to-toe with iTunes; and real-time customer service with the new Mayday button, which brings a live Amazon rep on a video screen within seconds -- for free.

Unfortunately, the video sling feature -- you can "kick" video from your HDX to a compatible device or Smart TV -- isn't ready at launch. And neither is Goodreads integration. Also, 16GB is fast becoming too small to store HD content, and without access to the Google Play store, HDX owners are still missing out on plenty of Android apps.

Still, the HDX is the strongest evolution of the Kindle Fire brand yet; however, you'll want make sure you're a card-carrying citizen of the Amazon Prime eco-verse to get the most out of the tablet's offerings.

 


 

Design
Last year's Kindle Fire tablets were bulky, substantial, and seemed to prioritize durability over comfort. The Fire HDX 7 is much more thoughtfully designed. Its corners aren't as rounded as I usually like, but it's well-balanced and really comfortable to hold in one hand. It's light without feeling too airy.

 

 


There's an obviously higher degree of specificity to the HDX's design compared with last year's Fires.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

 

Both the power button and volume rocker have been moved to the back, and while they're easier to find and press compared with the old Fire HD, I'm not sure it's the best solution. It's fine when held in landscape mode -- the rear edges can be used as a tactile guide -- but it's annoying when I want to quickly wake it from sleep, but have to pick it up first to reach the back instead of just tapping a button on its side.

 








































Tested specAmazon Kindle Fire HDX 7Amazon Kindle Fire HDGoogle Nexus 7 (2013)Apple iPad Mini
Weight in pounds 0.66 0.86 0.66 0.68
Width in inches (landscape) 7.3 7.7 7.8 7.9
Height in inches 5.0 5.4 4.5 5.3
Depth in inches 0.35 0.40 0.34 0.28
Side bezel width in inches (landscape) 0.6 0.9 1.0 0.8

 

There's a Micro-USB port on the left edge and a headphone jack on the right. The Micro-HDMI port from last year's Fire has been exorcised in favor of a new video fling feature we'll get to later. The front-facing camera returns along with an actual camera app this time, but there's no rear camera.

 


While the power button is now much more tactile compared with last year's Fire HDs, it's also now located on the back, which presents its own set of issues.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

 

Mojito
The new version of the Kindle Fire OS -- dubbed Mojito -- is based on Android Jelly Bean and is more of a refinement over last year's OS rather than something completely new.

The carousel returns, allowing you to swipe through a lineup of your content, but now swiping up from the home screen reveals an array of your installed apps. And thanks to the higher-resolution screen, all menu items are visible at once from the top of the home screen.

 


Both the carousel and the app array are now accessible from the same page.

(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET)

 

Swiping down from the the top still brings up the shortcuts menu and the settings button. The menu now includes new entries Quiet Time, which turns off all notifications -- this needed its own button? -- and Mayday, which we'll delve into shortly.

The Silk browser finally feels like a useful, welcoming tool for accessing the Web and not a clunky, low-rent app struggling to keep up with my Web-based proclivities. Pages loaded quickly and whizzed by when swiped.

Taps also are much more accurate now. Not only when tapping links, but it was especially impressive when typing. I'm usually one to make plenty of mistakes when typing on a touchscreen, but either I'm finally and suddenly getting much better or Amazon's engineers have put in a lot of work in this area. My bet's on the latter.

I'm probably a bit overly excited about just how trouble-free the Web experience was, but there's really nothing special about it. It simply works with little issue, which, compared with previous Fire tablets, I guess maybe is pretty special.


Silk is finally a fast competent browser and the Fire HDX's pinpoint-accurate screen makes the whole experience far more pleasurable than ever before.

(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET)

Amazon also took a critical eye toward other native apps like e-mail and calendar as well as adding a new contacts app. E-mail has been redesigned to require fewer steps to set up and is now compatible with threaded conversations, so instead seeing a single e-mail from each person in the conversation, you now see a message from the last person to contribute to the thread.

Calendar includes a number of sensible improvements that for the most part makes the interface a more efficient and gratifying experience.

Managing your storage is now a lot easier, as items can be located by type and each deleted on the fly.

 


16GB is fast becoming too small for storing HD content. Thankfully, managing your storage on the Kindle Fire has never been easier.

(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Franklin/CNET)


 
Recent Posts Get Rss feed for Sokwall



Achives:
 
Recent Posts: