I’ve been using Amazon’s tablet Kindle Fire from past few
weeks and would like to share some information regarding the same.
The Kindle
Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's
Kindle e-book
reader
Hardware
Most Kindle Fire
devices employ a 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 dual-core
processor. The display is a 7 inches (180 mm) multi-touch color screen with a
600×1024 pixel resolution. Connectivity is through 802.11n Wi-Fi and USB 2.0
(Micro-B connector). The device includes 8 GB of internal storage — said to be
enough for 80 applications, plus either 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books. According
to Amazon's list of technical details, the Kindle Fire's 4400 mAh battery sustains up
to 8 hours of consecutive reading and up to 7.5 hours of video playback with
wireless off..
Of the 8GB
internal storage, approximately 6.5GB is available for content.
Software
The Kindle Fire
runs a customized Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.Along with
access to Amazon Appstore, the appstore service is only for
US customers) the Fire includes a cloud-accelerated "split browser", Amazon Silk,
using Amazon
EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and
rendering, and Google's SPDY
protocol for faster webpage content transmission.The user's Amazon digital
content is given free storage in Amazon
Cloud's web-storage platform,
5GB Music storage in Amazon Cloud Drive, and a built-in email
application allows webmail (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox. The
subscription-based Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of
movies and TV shows, is available with a free trial period. The current version
of the Kindle Fire OS as of May 3, 2012 is 6.3.1_user_4107720.
Content formats
supported are Kindle Format 8 (KF8), Kindle Mobi (.azw), TXT, PDF,
unrestricted MOBI,
PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Because of
Amazon's USB driver implementation, the Kindle Fire suffers from
slow USB transfer speeds. For example, transferring an 800MB video file may
take more than three minutes.
Services
Storage, Amazon Cloud Player, Amazon Instant video, Amazon
Silk, Amazon App Store, Amazon Kindle Store
Online
Amazon Prime, Amazon Cloud
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