When you first glare at Kindle Fire you might feel it looks like the BlackBerry’s PlayBook, both are kind of rounded black rectangular design, no features, wins in engaging. 7-inch capacitive screen with 1024 × 600 resolution, color, brightness and viewing angle are satisfactory, but solely on the dpi is higher than the 9.7-inch iPad 2. Shell made ​​of plastic, with only a 7-inch screen, so only 408g weight is normal. In theory, it is more comfortable reading books on Kindle Fire than on iPad if you have a long time reading.

No-button design compared to other manufacturers, the Amazon Kindle Fire this is much more thoroughly with the traditional volume control are retained kill the project. The only hardware buttons is the power button, is only responsible for off / on / standby / wake, all other functions are virtual keys on the screen treatment, but the volume should be a wake-up tune machines are indeed very troublesome.

Although the Kindle Fire using TI OMAP 1Ghz dual-core processor, and memory also run 512M, but it is always positioned a book, rather than a tablet. Therefore, it is not Bluetooth, no 3G, no GPS, your wireless communications can only Wi-Fi. The future version will have 3G, we do not know.

Amazon official says that Kindle Fire has 8-hour battery life for reading books or doing other things, a little shorter than the 10-hour battery life on iPad. Here I’m giving you the useful kindle tips for saving your battery life of Kindle Fire. The battery may drain quickly usually due to the wireless radio so you should go to turn wireless off, press Menu > Wireless Off. Or you can turn the Kindle completely off by holding the power slide to the right for about five seconds until the screen goes blank.

Because Amazon owns a lot of audio books and it also allows customers to download some free kindle fire books, so the Kindle Fire equipped with stereo speakers. If sound quality is poor too loud, 3.5mm headphone port also help to you. In addition, although the nominal Kindle has built-in memory capacity of 8GB, but the actual deduction system and comes with software components, available space will more than 6G. Estimated actual use, plus an SD card is a must.

Kindle Fir application of the Android system. In order to improve ease of use, no longer in the Kindle Fire in the main screen widgets and the concept is replaced by a big virtual bookshelves. Shelf is divided into two layers, the upper is a summary of your most recently used items, the lower is a list of programs that can organize.

Overall, if you simply need an e-book, Kindle Fire is a very good product. And you can get free book downloads for kindle at Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, Jungle Search and many other sites to save your money. But if you want to use it as a Tablet, you may be disappointed to find out that it is a little inferior than iPad due to its hardware and software. What do you want to do with the Tablet determines what you should choose.