Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 – Spaziogames.it

What the gaming market is the goose that lays the golden eggs, is well known and well known to all marketing experts and new technlogies. Precisely for this reason, for some years now, we have tripled the economic efforts of companies that deal with mobile devices in order to offer buyers products that are more refined and more powerful every year. The reasons for this increase in performance, almost exponential in truth, are due to the audience that feeds on these products. Many of those who put their hands on a tablet the latest generation primarily want ease of use and no problems related to product performance. That is when watching a movie in streaming, or browsing on one of the thousand social network, or while you are sitting on the tablet to play a game to Angry Birds , the dictate is always : unlock the device with a gesture, start the application with a twist, use it for longer than is necessary, close it with an extra touch. Finished. After five minutes of carefree, you can go back to the horizons of everyday life. The last years have marked the mobile gaming market and Amazon was not certainly watching. Presented a few months ago, the Seattle company has released to the public a new version of its tablet Kindle Fire , now called Fire HDX 8.9 . Ready to once again revolutionize the world of mobile devices, the new tablet of Jeff Bezos There has been touted as the device that will deliver significant performance increase for what concerns games and applications. And we Spaziogames that game live, we had a nice ride along with this little monster. Here is our verdict.

A bit ‘of numbers and data

We do not deny that the first impression from the tablet Amazon had just pulled out of the box was very good. The Fire HDX, in fact, is very good in terms of both aesthetics and handling. Very light (it weighs just under 400g ) and thin (about 8mm ), as can be seen from the name mount a screen to 8.9 inch . Coated rear of glossy black plastic and matte that allow a good grip , the general sense that gives the eye is that of a sober elegance. Designed to be used primarily in the landscape , that is horizontally, thanks to its size content in the daily is very handy and manoeuvrable, even when it comes to use the bed, wrapped in blankets.

The display, in no uncertain terms, is one of the best on the market. Leaving aside the numbers and statistics trivial, suffice it to say that the density of pixels on the screen is 339 ppi , a huge amount if we compare with other models of the same price. Speaking clearly, this high density allows a remarkable sharpness of the display managing to overcome the much more famous Apple Retina display on the iPad Air 2. Not that this affects in particular the overall performance but it makes us think about the design features and the power of the product It was conceived.

The Fire HDX mounts – as now all tablet- two cameras, a rear 8MP with LED flash and a front with a resolution 720p useful for video calls. Turning now to components, when we read what was hidden inside the Fire does not mean we can not be surprised. The HDX it mounts a processor Snapdragon 805 , one of the most powerful quad-core processors on the market today. All this is supported by 2GB RAM and different cuts of expandable memory ( 16GB , 32GB and 64 GB ). On the whole, finally, the system is operating Own Amazon Fire OS 4 Sangria . Now that we have an overview of the product, we will explain what were our feelings about the use.

Gaming nth degree. Or almost.

After pitted thoroughly all hardware components, we throw a closer eye on this Fire HDX 8.9 and see how it behaves in everyday use. It’s a tablet user friendly that points to the use of fast content is clear from the very first use, from the first moment in which the eye rests on the interface.

The screen will then be divided into three main sections which stand out conspicuously in the central contents that appear as icons giants. These will be the last content viewed by the user and that is everything between applications, movies or comics, it has been used recently. Scrolling down the list on the right and left, we will have a complete history of all the applications that we used previously, without exception. We point out that we have never had slowdowns in the interface, very well managed by the OS 4 Sangria that handles very well the great resources of RAM making it more fluid than ever before us in the lurch.

A tablet, therefore, , which aims to using fast content and not to lose time to the user who is using it.

But now we come to the part that most interests us and that is the discussion related to gaming. The Fire HDX is able to manage well the power of the processor and RAM to the point that even though we put him under pressure several times, his answer was always optimal. Tested with some of the greatest games and heavy traffic, such as Real Racing 3 or Goat Simulator to name a few, the Fire HDX has never missed a beat, keeping the graphic and fluidity at the highest levels. The only drawback to these high performance, however, is the excessive energy consumption. Play for a long time below pushing hard the processor, as well as overheating the device, it can severely affect the battery which, though dignified in his life, does not come to bear a few hours of continuous play.

Another problem on the tablet and the eventual use of gaming is the problem related to the Amazon store. The Fire HDX, although matrix Android, it does not support the Play Store and certain securities may not be retrieved from the store owner of Amazon. A solution there would be but is not always feasible due to the incompatibility of some applications. We talk about the free market Aptoide from which you can compensate in part the lack of Google Play and some securities present in it.

As for the audio, however, we can say that the new tablet Amazon home has passed the test and passed with flying colors. Perhaps the most powerful of the category, holds well and loud even if fired at high volume. Very good also the average but loud tend a bit ‘to get lost.

Speaking of other things, however, good news for lovers of reading. As the son of the Amazon management, the Fire HDX has been a great device for reading ebooks is that of comics. Through proprietary applications slender and fluid, and one store practically unlimited and immediate, Fire HDX is one of the best tablet in circulation for what concerns reading, particularly comic. The always-on connection with the store, also (when you are under the Wi-Fi or data, it is clear) is a dangerous temptation for lovers of comics and novels. We have warned. On the margins, very good and intuitive even the proprietary browser Silk and the client that deals with the sorting of mail. Fast and immediate, during tests carried out has never given any problems.

In conclusion, let’s talk about versions and prices. Fire HDX starts at a list price of 379 € with 16GB of memory and annoying policy of the Amazon promotional messages scattered here and there. Adding twenty euro cost of the tablet, you can remove the advertisements from the interface. To rise, we always have the same model but with the memory storage increased reaching a maximum of 594 € for the 64GB version with Wi-Fi and 4G LTE integrated. Prices there have appeared in line with the competition (if you think its direct competitor and that Google Nexus 9) and other Android tablet to medium-low.