The new Kindle Fire 7 “opens to the market with a very attractive offer: a full tablet for just 60 Euros. 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 arrived in the world’s largest virtual store: For Amazon, the third player in the area of the tablet after Apple (iOS) and Google (with Android) to prove a difficult challenge. The quality of the iPad is practically impossible and the spread of Android overwhelming, so Amazon decided to go a very different: the new Kindle is based (as we shall see) on a proprietary operating system and juggles like a contortionist, and accepting limits 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 Kindle Fire 7-inch stems 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. This must be clear to those who buy this product, because the Kindle is a kind of active portal to services Amazon, whether a highway preferential private cloud or a channel of visibility for different products, from books to computer apparatus, from food to household cleaners, only to a few items of 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 strong and easy to maneggire , and the power source thanks to the plastic surface that was created to facilite grip even with greasy fingers, and the support that is not afraid of a mishandling. Amazon says, 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 of the tablet has always He responded very exemplary. In our test we used with the custody officer sold separately, which in addition to protect the screen bends in an original way allowing placement in the table.
The dimensions are those of a box 16: 9 to 18.8 cm in height, 11.2 in width to depth of 1, 314 grams of weight (442 with the cover). The shape quite different from 4: 3 to that of the Apple tablet offers better availability to reading books and watching movies, less the navigability and management of browser app in general. The volume keys, the power off, the headphone jack and MicroUSB connector for charging are all placed in the top short, 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 quad-core 1.3 GHz: these features, of course not the first band in the market, however, allow a sufficient experience of use to play with good soddisfzione, navigate and scroll through the pages in tranquility, as well as play movies in HD without a shot being fired. The internal memory of 8GB is insignificant at present, but fortunately there is a MicroSD port with which you can expand up to 128 GB (just on Amazon there are lots of offers for cards with denominations of up to 8 GB).
A rear camera with 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 useful only in the use of a video call. MicroUSB cable, together with the USB connector for charging allow a full of energy in an hour or so, with a reserve declared 7 hours, although in our tests we have not reached this limit: it is true that the variability of a charge in a tablet it is very wide and the use or not even one function can change a lot of autonomy. As we shall see, however, the tablet is designed for use in active symbiosis with the internet and even works perfectly in the use of the App also offline, without an active connection loses much of its potential.
Bellini
Once lit and carried out normal operations of association and initialization, a wizard within the reach of all users, even those who are ignorant of the tablet, we are faced with the new operating system OS 5 Fire, name code Bellini. This aspect is very important in view of the product and must be made clear to prospective buyers: although derived from Android, Bellini is an operating system independent, which has its own store (apps are considered a “dialect” of Android) with a system approval by Amazon that has nothing to do with that pursued by developers who put their apps on Google. Surfing the web and methods are more or less effective and legal to carry on the Kindle App for Android, but it is still short cuts and doubts on the efficiency of applications so converted as well as their safety are legitimate.
Unlike a Nexus or an iPad, the Fire is home to a very special experience of use: 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, it is an iron, a book or a pair of sneakers: once you unlock, we are faced with a series of tabs, where apps are stored only in one of these, do not like on the iPad or Android apps are where the center of activity.
The cards are about books (electronic in Kindle format), music (local or via the cloud of Amazon), Video, the Amazon store, and apps.
If one is guided by the Kindle using, forgetting how acquired through years of Android and iOS experience is rewarding and enjoyable, although the urge to not miss the exciting offer of the day is always present, otherwise if you try to bend the tablet to run more canonical everything becomes woody and redundant.
C ‘is to say that Amazon does everything to make the purchase of the Fire interesting addition to the price, we took advantage of the offer to download several Apps including Monument Valley, DuckTales: remastered and Castle of Illusion, but there were many other free or 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 gaming experience quite interesting, if these proposals are paid App in other tablets. More than anything else the difference between Amazon and Google Play Store is being felt in some App simpler: the Kindle lack of alternative browsers in Silk (the default browser of the Kindle, in good yield less management) as Chrome or Opera, missing App Google as YouTube (there’s a clone but not at the level of the original) or Google Maps, and some games. These shortcomings that can be decisive or totally irrelevant according to the 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 the consideration and that count as much as the tempting purchase price. Those who want a tablet developed an operating system and its flexible and advanced perhaps find in the Kindle not its main reference, because the system is not designed for uses that deviate significantly from the use of services Amazon: You can install app APK format third parties manually (even Mac, leveraging the Android File Transfer app, with simple drag ‘& amp;’ drop) but it is a choice a bit ‘radical, and the tablet that will not be the best.
Those who already use a Kindle, and is used to buy products or services Amazon, will find in 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 does not require the device its operating mode. Too bad that here in Italy the services of Amazon Prime, for now, are severely limited compared with America and other European countries, however, already now offers present are many and interesting.
Ultimately Kindle Fire from 7 “is a good product, which excels over competitors in the same price range is the build quality (the IPS screen is a technical detail of excellence) that the proposed services, which acts as the first tablet in combination with a computer or as a second tablet in the presence of a model more professional. It can be a great help in the kitchen, in the bedroom or living room, for the five-minute entertainment between jobs or the other, for a recipe or a good book before bed (not a light sleeper next disorders , thanks to the backlit screen) and that, compared to a Kindle classic, makes a lot of extra things.
The Kindle Fire 7 “you buy at Amazon. Two price ranges: 59,99 € and 74,99 €. The products are the same, the cheaper version we will have some non-intrusive advertising (not appear during use but only in situations where they are not annoying) in the most expensive version there are no ads.
Pro
> – Good IPS screen
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very low price – inexpensive access to applications
– Ideal platform for services Amaon
Cons:
– The choice of app is limited
– Some services are not entirely useful
– not powerful Hardware
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