Autonomous, pleasant to use and an excellent quality and price, the Kindle Fire HD 7" is exclusively turned towards the services Amazon.
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The promise
Known for their online store and for his electronic ink eReaders, Amazon launched his first touch pad in Europe. The Kindle Fire HD is a model upmarket format 7 inches (17.8 cm) at a price still moderate. With these arguments, the American giant has much to overshadow its main rival Apple with his Mini iPad and Google with its Nexus 7. This tablet features she assets to take a place on the market? Our response to test in support.
The reality
Relatively fine and lightweight (1.03 cm size for 395 g), the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7" has an excellent finish with a backs non-skid pleasant to the touch. With full connectivity standard - MicroUSB, 3.5-mm jack and micro HDMI even for broadcast on a TV - it embeds 16 GB (12.6 GB available for storage). There is no card reader, there is no possible to extend physical memory. The user has a free space of 5 GB online (Cloud Drive) to store personal documents. The most greedy users can rent additional space (from 20 GB to 8 euros per year) or buy the 32 GB model for $ 50 of more (249 euros). Books and music purchased from Amazon (including from a computer) are, themselves, life kept on the servers of Amazon and available for download at any time.
A screen and speakers outstanding
Amazon has paid particular attention to the screen of the tablet, which has both a good brightness and excellent contrast. Due to IPS technology, the viewing angles are wide. Order to complete the whole, the manufacturer has decorated the screen of a polarizing filter and anti-reflective technology efficiently. As for the definition, it is among the best format (7 inches) with 1280 points 800.
The effects of these technical choices satisfy of a simple glance: the screen of the Kindle Fire HD 7" really stand out by its display quality. Amazon has also treated the speakers on the back of the tablet. Equipped with Dolby audio technology, they provide a powerful and excellent quality. In contrast, the Kindle Fire HD 7" is without a camera, it only has a webcam, can shoot high-definition (HD 720p) for video calls with apps like Skype.
Android was discrete on Kindle Fire HD 7"
The Kindle Fire HD 7" works with one of the latest versions of Android (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0). However, no obvious trace of the Google OS in the tablet menus, including the informed user. The services and applications Google has systematically replaced by those Amazon app store and web browser included. The interface has been completely redesigned for greater public use and settings have been limited or simplified. Games, Applications, Books, Music ... every great section contains the same pattern, dividing into two parts: one providing access to content stored in the cloud (free or paid downloads made on Amazon.com), the other those stored in the internal memory of the tablet.
Due to a powerful processor (1.2 Ghz dual heart) and some well optimized software, the menu navigation is fluid. tablet turns out therefore, and this is a nice surprise of a pleasant or comfortable use with its screen ultraréactif. Better yet, the battery life is excellent with over 7 h 30 surfing on Wi-Fi and 8 hours 30 of video playback.
Amazon The shops to all floors
The only real fault of the tablet, it was finally the ubiquity of Amazon and of its online shops in every corner. The user may be bored. The manufacturer introduced his new device even the passage of advertisements on the screensaver. These are limited to the promotion of content or Kindle Fire HD 7" accessories and only when the tablet is not used. Nevertheless, resistant to this Kindle Fire HD 7" of process will be charged with the purchase of 15 euros extra to get their hands on their screen saver.
Amazon (for example) offers his platform by 20 million music tracks and nearly 70,000 books in French. For video, it will settle its own files (with a drive that is limited to major formats, MP4 and MKV) in the absence of a platform for buying or renting movies. Finally, downloadable applications are limited for the moment to a selection (validated by Amazon) Play the Google Store. The principal games and programs popular with surfers are however widely represented.
Amazon has successfully moved into the area of tablets with the Kindle Fire HD 7", a successful model and autonomous distinguished by a screen and speakers excellent workmanship. The absence of a memory card reader or camera makes it lose some points, but its operation simple and comfortable coupled at an affordable price (199 euros), largely offset these shortcomings. Android lovers spend their way: Google services and settings menus are completely missing. Finally, the ubiquitous shops in the Amazon tablet will not please everyone.
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