Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7, A Great Device for a Cheap Price

The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is one of the many new rivals of Apple’s iPad mini for the reason that it is much cheaper yet its specifications are still rich. The build is nice and solid yet a little heavy than expected. Its back is rubberized for the purpose of additional grip in the hand either wet or dry. The screen resolution is 1280 x 800 with a pixel density of 216ppi that makes it a perfect fit for viewing videos. It features 30% more pixels and 33% more pixels-per-inch than other mini tablets, which means clearer, sharper images. With Kindle Fire HD, you can watch HD movies and TV—you can’t on iPad mini because it’s not an HD device. With this display features coupled with the polarizing features and the anti-glare technology, it boosts color and contrast that improves viewing angle. You can definitely say that you get more than what you pay for.

And because low-quality sound can ruin your HD entertainment experience, Kindle Fire HD features dual stereo speakers and Dolby Digital Plus. The sound from the speakers is very crisp and clear which is another advantage of this new device over other competitors. The two speakers are positioned on either side of the device when you hold it on landscape and they surprisingly crank out some respectable stereo sound in terms of volume and clarity.

Yet you might wonder, how about the batteries? Do they last long in these settings? Amazon says it’s “up to 8 hours of continuous reading, or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off.” That’s not as good as an ordinary Apple iPad that is rated for about 10 hours of continuous use yet the kindle fires battery life satisfies most of the people.

Additionally, Kindle Fire HD offers fast Wi-Fi with dual band, dual antennas + MIMO.

With regards to its hardware connectivity, Kindle Fire is said to be much better with the Google Tablet. Even if it’s still on its infant stage, Kindle Fire has a micro HDMI video output at the bottom and a micro USB charge socket and a 3.5 mm headphone jack, that sits on the left edge. There’s no memory card on this device so you need to choose between 16GB and 32GB models wisely because that’s all the local storage you’ll get.

There are many things still lacking on kindle fire that is on iPad but for this device to handle about 80 percent of what iPad can do makes it a strategic competitor against its giant counterpart including the fact that it is much cheaper in price. And most of what’s missing won’t be missing for long. Maybe now you can justify buying an iPad, yet you might still consider Amazon’s Kindle Fire as an alternative.