- Features 7.5
- Dimensions 8.0
- Performance 8.0
- Quality Price 7.8
Pro
Into Wide screen, bright and lively color rendering, Dolby Stereo, affordable price
Cons
Into Packaging very sparse, Amazon customization of Android, memory card slot absent
, July 3, 2013
First Contact
Into The family Kindle Fire was a turning point in the world of Android tablet , presenting itself as a high quality product at a very competitive price albeit with some small compromise, philosophy largely taken up by Google with its Nexus 7. With the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 , Amazon completes its offer alongside the basic model (7-inch screen) a version with 8.9-inch screen (resolution of 1,920 × 1,200) and a hardware balanced, though not exceptional, is able to satisfy the needs of the system.
Into L ‘ Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has the credentials to gain share interesting market, now the prerogative of solutions more famous, thanks to an aggressive commercial policy. However, if from the point of view of marketing and brand, the product is competitive, we can not record some small shortcoming. The package , for example, is about as thin you can find.
Into the Amazon box in black, in fact, we find only the tablet and a USB-microUSB cable. This means that you need to purchase the power supply or charge the tablet via the USB port of the PC.Gallery: Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9
Design
Into After the first little disappointment, curiosity takes over and we begin to study the build quality of the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 . Luckily, this time not betray: the body is, in fact, very solid, with a good build quality and without any particular flaws.
Into The size overall are the norm for devices with this diagonal (239x163x9 mm), although the frame that surrounds the screen might look a little ‘too massive and weigh slightly the line of the tablet. The weight of about 567 grams is quite noticeable, but it does not differ much from the main competitors from 9 to 10 inches. Into
Into the bottom side (if we grab the tablet with two hands in landscape), we find the doors miniHDMI and miniUSB and power buttons and volume while the 3.5mm jack is on the right side.
Into The back is pleasant to the touch, covered, like its predecessor, the softer rubber material and characterized by a plastic strip is apparently decorative, but that hides two speaker stereo of good quality.
Into The front of ‘ Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is dominated by screen 8.9 inches. It is a brush IPS with a high resolution (254 ppi ) and good visibility under a wide angle. The information display is undoubtedly enjoyable and rewarding, as well as the enjoyment of movies in high definition that are played without any particular uncertainties. The technology Gorilla Glass , then, gives the display a remarkable resistance to minor scratches, a prerequisite for this class of devices. A single fact that the screen goes to fingerprints collected in abundance.
Into The front camera and built-in microphone, finally, allow the use of the leading VOIP software.Hardware
Into Under the body, Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 hides a processor dual core ARM Cortex A9 Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 running at a frequency of 1.5 GHz not it is the CPU view more handsome in the world of mobile technology, but it plays so egregious his work in the reproduction of high resolution movies and video games, well assisted by GPU PowerVR SGX544 300 MHz Some lag is, however, still be seen in the use of some third-party application, but nothing incriminating.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 mounts also 1 GB of RAM , now almost a standard for mid-range Android devices, while the memory for the storage depends on the version chosen. There are in fact two versions when purchased in Italy: 16 and 32 GB . Not being provided memory card slot, you should carefully identify the model to buy. Are inevitable, then, the light sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope.
Into From the point of view of connectivity, there is a good supply Bluetooth 3.0 with EDR and Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n dual band capable to operate on the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands is not available on the market, at least for the moment, no version 3G/LTE constrain the possibilities offered to the user in terms of connectivity (in fact, exist in the USA store an LTE version – even with 64 GB of memory – but it is not yet clear whether the proposal will be a version similar to the E uropean market).Into 
Into On the front of the operating system, are the considerations made for the previous Kindle Fire. We are facing a profound review of Android (4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich), with a ‘ interface and a completely revised supplied software strongly affected by the personalization desired by Amazon.
Into Everything is very intuitive, however, in some cases even more than the standard version of Android. Applications Amazon, such as Kindle ebook reader, they work perfectly, and thanks to cloud Amazon, provide the user with many useful features.
Into However, Google Play has been completely replaced by the shop Amazon, through which you can only buy apps, music, books and movies offered by Amazon, however, all available in large numbers: for example, There are tens of thousands of apps, including the most recent like Ruzzle to Spotify, 1.5 million books, including 47,000 in Italian, as well as a wide selection of newspapers and magazines, but also 25 million to MP3, 260,000 AutoRip which use the service, which automatically sends the purchase of an MP3 CD. There is still a vacuum, however, the video industry, but it remains alive the promise of seeing soon in Italy what is already available in the U.S. and in the UK.the field
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In the field, the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has behaved very well. Probably, lovers Google Experience will turn up their noses at such deep customization of the UI, but you can not deny that the result is more than decent. The tested version of the system (8.4.3) did not reveal any particular problems, except some sporadic lag with the browser as standard and some slight uncertainty with third-party applications.
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