Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Mini iPad 2 vs Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 - Wired.it

On the one hand the iPad Mini display a strong renewed, the other the third-generation Kindle Fire, eager to dethrone the opponent thanks to a galactic display

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When he decided to jump into the world of tablets with the Kindle Fire small, no one believed that Amazon would make a difference. Yet the tablet Apple Jeff Bezos managed to annoy them enough to give birth a few months later, an iPad reduced size. Fast forward to this fall: Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and the second iPad Mini mountain top technology and are destined for a thunderous crash.

Who has tried the device of the Apple I was amazed by design, light weight and reduced thickness. The attention to the aesthetics of its products at the bottom has always been a trademark of Apple, but Amazon with the HDX 8.9 was not less: the new Fire enjoys an attention to detail never seen in predecessors and both tablets are little more than hard, solid sheets of silicon. The point is played on a razor’s edge but goes to the Mini, which impresses with its lines essential , the use of aluminum and small size. The Fire leaves slightly more perplexing because of the sharp edges on the back of a sports car.

displays are difficult to judge: color fidelity, and maximum brightness contrasts are top-level in both sides. But if there is an opponent in a position to raise the scepter technology Retina iPad in the last series, it is the panel of the Amazon tablet. Let me be clear, distinguish the pixels of each other is virtually impossible on the new display of the Mini, the resolution of Fire , however, touches the extreme levels and is particularly perfect for display of books, websites and everything that has screen font.

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There’s a big, traditional difference between the two tablets: the operating system. iOS features an eye-catching and clean; his store teems app and has an ecosystem of content that ranges from music periodicals. Fire 3 for the situation is more complex: as in previous versions, the os cooked by the company of Jeff Bezos is based on Android, but does not have the flexibility or the number of apps available (and maybe even the aesthetic appeal, despite improvements). The decision to “castrate” the Google system, however, is not completely pointless, because it provides a more focussed on the use of quality content and especially less complex. Every product, which is an app or an article of exterminated catalog Amazon is just a couple of taps.

The rest of the two sheets of specifications differs in a few details, that in ‘ experience daily are little more than insignificant. Ok, processors and memory on board are different, but the function of both the Fire as the Mini is unexceptionable: whether it’s games, is that there are dance video full hd or multiple tabs running in the browser. Even the cameras are not the same, but your account Mpixel leave things as they are: in both cases, the shots are higher than the category average (and not comparable with those of smartphones dedicated).

tablets from Apple and Amazon are both excellent but targeting slices public slightly different. 8.9 HDX Kindle Fire is a tablet dedicated to content-hungry users to browse and consume, willing to be in front of a veritable showcase digital. The iPad Mini second generation tablet is not as comfortable as a full size, but it is more versatile, benefited from this point of view from a tradition of accessories and apps that make it usable also for productivity. The price reflects this slight difference, but it becomes almost € 100 if you take into consideration the versions with 64 GB of memory. Essentially a matter of taste, but the game is more open than ever.

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