Kindle Fire HDX 7 vs. LG G Pad 8.3: Comparison - Tablet Zone

This week Amazon has introduced its surprise new generation of tablets and we have been pleasantly surprised to see that all the leaks about fantastic Technical specifications s have come true without assuming increased price significant compared to the previous generation. Today we show a comparative of your Kindle Fire HDX 7 with another compact tablet with best features we have seen in recent weeks: the LG G Pad 8.3 .

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Design

The two tablets are very different when it comes to design : the LG has the narrow side frames the iPad mini became fashionable to reduce the width and hold it more easily with one hand, while the Amazon is regular and relatively wide frames. The biggest differences, however, are seen in the back , which is quite peculiar in the new Kindle Fire, as we show after his presentation.

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Dimensions

The LG G Pad 8.3 has a significantly larger screen (8.3 inches 7 inch face ), which, obviously reflected in their size, but not as much as we might think, although it is considerably longer ( 21.68 cm front 18.6 cm ), is even narrower than the Kindle Fire 7 HDX ( 12.65 cm against 12.8 cm ). It is also thinner (8.3 mm against 9 mm ) and only slightly heavier (338 gr against 311 gr ).

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LG is more than an inch larger than the Amazon ), the screens are not too different: both are LCD and have resolution 1920 x 1200 , ie are Full HD . Affects the size, however, the pixel density, of course, that is substantially greater in the HDX Kindle Fire 7 323 PPI 73 versus 2 PPI .

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The advantage in this section is for Amazon Tablet , riding nothing more and nothing less than a Snapdragon 800 , the same processor as now use high-end smartphones with quad-core 2.2 GHz . The processor of the LG tablet, in any case, is more than respectable Snapdragon 600 , also 4 cores and a frequency of 1.7 GHz . In regard to the RAM, however, a tie absolute 2 GB .

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OS

An important point to keep in mind when choosing between these two tablets is the operating system, since the new Kindle Fire will premiere a new one, Fire OS , we do not know if it will be an even stronger customizing Android or use a different basis. In any case, those who love pure versions operating system Google will be forced to rooting the device to dispose of them.

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The victory is again in this section for HDX Fiire Kindle 7 : the two tablets have micro-SD slot to expand our space storage, but for those looking to have the larger hard disk starting may be interesting to know that the Amazon tablet can get up to 64 GB , while the LG seems to only be sold with 16 GB .

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As we always say, it is difficult to decide as to which of the devices give us a better autonomy until we have independent test. For Kindle Fire HDX for now all we have are estimates Amazon ( 11 hours use), while the LG G Pad 8.3 just know that your battery has a capacity of 4600 mAh . Under these conditions, it is quite difficult to decide on what we can even have better prospects.

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l The arrival of iPad mini with two cameras seems to have changed the perspective of many manufacturers, which until then were apart of the rear camera on tablets more affordable compact and now most of them returned to incorporate, such as Tablet LG , which has a rear camera 5MP in addition to the front of 1.3 MP . Amazon , however, has shown true to the idea that the tablets do not require powerful cameras and has only one front.

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Price

This is arguably the strongest point Amazon Tablet , enough even to overcome the reluctance even your operating system might awaken some lovers Android : the two tablets are leading in terms of specs , especially when compared to other compact tablets, but the Kindle Fire HdX will sell for 229 euros , a price that is not expected to reach the LG G Pad 8.3 , which in the latest leaks were said to be sold for 300 euros ( a price that is actually already quite low for a manufacturer who can not afford, as do Amazon and Google , sell devices with virtually no benefit or no benefit at all) .