The new Kindle Fire 7 “opens the market with a very attractive offer: a complete tablet just 60 euro. A good result despite the inevitable compromises, even if the choice must be made on an informed basis.
After months of rumors the new Amazon Kindle Fire 7 “inch Wi-Fi is arrived in the biggest virtual store of the world: for Amazon, the third player in the field of tablet after Apple (iOS) and Google (Android) to prove a difficult challenge. The quality of the iPad is practically impossible, and the spread of Android overwhelming, so Amazon decided to follow a very different path: the new Kindle is based (as we shall see) on a proprietary operating system and juggles like a contortionist, accepting limits and compromises to slip in the available offering a great price: only 59,99 EUR (with non-intrusive advertising, 74.99 euro without advertising)
The basic concept around which 7-inch Kindle Fire is born in any case, it is in fact unique: it is the perfect platform for those who love, buys and uses Amazon for many aspects of their lives. That should be clear to those who buy this product, because the Kindle is a kind of active portal to the Amazon services, whether they are a preferred highway to the private cloud, or a visible channel for different products, from books to computer equipment, from food detergents for the house, ending up some clothing or toys.
If Amazon is part of your life in one or more of these aspects of the new Kindle will creep actively and profitably in the home or office, otherwise it will seem a mysterious object with obvious limitations and some concerns.
Kindle Fire 7″ out of the box
out of the box the new Kindle gives the impression of being strong and firm: forget the fine lines of the latest iPad, the intention here is to have a resistant and easy to maneggire , and the power source thanks to the plastic surface that was created to facilite the grip even with greasy fingers, and the support that does not fear a misguided use. Amazon states, whatever that means, that this tablet is 1.8 times stronger than an iPad, which gives us hope, and even if we did not do a real crash test we must admit that even in a careless use the tablet has always He responded very exemplary. In our test we used the official housing sold separately, which in addition to protect the screen bends in an original way allowing the positioning in the table.
The dimensions are those of a cuboid with a 16: 9 to 18.8 cm in height, 11.2 in width to a depth of 1, 314 grams of weight (442 with the cover). The very different form from 4: 3 to that of the Apple tablet offers better availability to reading books and watching movies, not from the browser navigation and the App of management in general. The volume keys, the power off, the headphone jack and MicroUSB connector for charging are all placed in the top, short edge, while the mono external speaker is placed at the other.
The IPS screen offers a resolution of 1024 × 600 pixels at 171 dpi, with a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor: these features, of course not the first band in the market, however, allow a sufficient user experience to play with good soddisfzione, surf and scroll through the pages in peace, in addition to play HD movies without a shot being fired. The 8GB internal memory is insignificant at present, but fortunately there is a MicroSD port with which you can expand it up to 128 GB (just on Amazon there are many card offers with denominations of up to 8 GB).
a rear camera with a modest resolution of 2 megapixels allows you to take pictures and shoot video at 720p, while the front (not present in the first generation of the Kindle), in VGA format, it is only useful in the use of a video call. MicroUSB cable, together with the USB connector for recharging allow a full, although in our tests we never reached that limit energy in an hour or so, with a declared reserves of 7 hours: it is true that the variability of a charge in a tablet it is very large or not the use of even a single feature can change very autonomy. As we shall see, however, the tablet is designed for use in active symbiosis with the Internet and even functions perfectly in using the App even offline, without an active connection loses much of its potential.
Bellini
once turned on and carried out normal operations of association and initialization, a wizard absolutely affordable for all users, even those who are in the tablet fasting, you are in front of the new Fire OS 5 operating system, name Bellini in code. This aspect is very important in the trial of the product and it must be clear to prospective buyers: although derived from Android, Bellini is an independent operating system, which has its own shop (the App are considered a “dialect” of Android) with a system of approval by Amazon that has nothing to do with that pursued by the developers who put their apps on Google. Surfing the web and are more or less effective and legal methods to bring on the App Kindle Android, but it is still short cuts and doubts on the efficiency of the so-converted applications as well as on their safety are legitimate.
Unlike a Nexus or an iPad, the Fire is home to a very unique user experience: the appearance tab provides a symbiosis with Amazon services always on. When you turn the tablet connects to the internet to show the offer of the day, whether it is an iron, a book or a pair of sneakers: after you sign the release, we are faced with a series of tabs, where the App are deposited only inside one of these, not as on the iPad or Android where the app is the center of activity.
the cards are related to books (electronic in Kindle format), music (local or through the Amazon cloud), Video, Amazon’s store, and App.
If one is guided by the Kindle using, forgetting how acquired in years of Android and iOS experience it is pleasant and profitable, though the urge to not miss the unique offer of the day is always present, otherwise if you try to bend the tablet to a more canonical operation the whole becomes woody and redundant.
C ‘it is to say that Amazon does everything to make the purchase of the Fire interesting: in addition to price, we took advantage of the offer to download several App including Monument Valley, DuckTales: remastered and Castle of Illusion, but there were many other free or on offer, a sign that the commitment of the parent company is strong and that every user can take advantage of the cost of the tablet to enjoy a very interesting game experience, where these are proposed App paid in the other tablet. More than anything else the difference between Google Play and Amazon Store is felt in some App simpler: the Kindle lack of alternative to Silk browser (the default browser of Kindle, in good yield less management) as Chrome or Opera, missing App Google like YouTube (there’s a clone but not at the original level) or Google Maps, and some games. These deficiencies which may be decisive or totally irrelevant with use made of it in the tablet.
Choosing and conclusions
the review of this product covers different points of view, which are very important in consideration and that count as much as the tempting purchase price. Those who want a tablet and just evolved a flexible and advanced operating system may find in the Kindle not its main reference, because the system is not designed to use it decisively deviate from the use of Amazon services: you can install app in APK format third parties manually (even Mac, taking advantage of the Android file Transfer app, with simple drag ‘& amp;’ drop) but it is a choice a bit ‘radical, and the tablet in this way does not give the best of themselves.
Those who already uses a Kindle and Amazon usually buy products or services, will find this product a valuable companion, spending a pittance and in exchange for a satisfactory user experience, as long as we let ourselves be guided and not make the device its operating mode. Too bad that here in Italy the Amazon Prime service, for now, are severely limited compared with America and other European countries, however, already now offers on this are many and interesting.
Ultimately Kindle Fire from 7 “is a good product, which stands out from the competition in the same price range in both the build quality (the IPS screen is a technical detail of excellence) that the proposed services, which acts as a first tablet in combination with a computer or as a second tablet in the presence of a professional model. It can be a great help in the kitchen, in the bedroom or living room, for five minutes of leisure between jobs or the other, for a recipe or a good book before bed (without a light disturbances who sleeps next , thanks to the backlit screen) and that, compared to a classic Kindle, does a lot of things more.
The Kindle Fire 7 “buy at Amazon. Two price ranges: 59,99 € and 74,99 €. The products are the same, the cheaper version of the ad will not intrusive (no appear during use but only in situations where they are not annoying) in the more expensive version there is no advertising.
Pro
> – Good
IPS screen – very low price
– economic access applications
– ideal platform for Amaon services
Cons:
– The choice of app is limited
– Some services are not entirely useful
– Hardware not powerful
