New Kindle Fire HD and HDX Amazon Kindle Fire in Spain - ALT1040

By JJ Velasco

October 16, 2013, 18:03

Given that the Christmas season is upon us, many companies are renewing their range of devices. Amazon is precisely one of the companies that are preparing for this campaign with a possible renewal of Kindle Paperwhite and the presentation of its new tablets HDX ago we already showed a couple of weeks). After the official presentation, obviously, is the commercial launch of the devices and, starting today, Amazon and marketed in Spain the new Kindle Fire HDX and also the new Kindle Fire HD .

Kindle Fire

HDX

today, the third generation of tablets Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX , are already available in Spain. As we discussed a few weeks ago with this evolution of their tablets , Amazon seeks to gain a foothold within tablets 7-inch high performance and, in this sense, comes with a powerful device with a high resolution screen.

Kindle Fire

HDX comes in two versions: , a 7-inch (1920×1200 resolution and 323 pixels per inch) and a 8.9-inch (2560×1600 resolution with 339 pixels per inch), to provide the best viewing of contents, promise a reduced reflexes and dynamic adjustment of the brightness. In terms of power, these tablets contain within Snapdragon processor 800 of 2.2 GHz and 4 cores plus 2 GB of RAM and Adreno 330 graphics processor , a quantum leap when compared to previous models tablets from Amazon and that, really, promising enough when play or play games.

Following the

hardware , the Amazon Kindle HDX has a pair of stereo speakers audio system with Dolby Digital Plus to provide a high quality surround sound out like a 5.1 sound system. Also included is a pair of cameras, one for video conferencing HD front and rear 8 megapixel capable of recording videos at 1080p. It also has a flash LED, electronic image stabilizer lens and a large aperture f2.2 5P.

The weight

, we are talking about one tablet of 374 grams in its “bigger”, ie version 8.9 inches; figure that contrasts with Amazon promises autonomy since, theoretically, be able to hold about 11 hours of use “mixed” and about 17 hours in reading mode. In this regard, a great deal of weight reduction comes from the integration of the capacitive sensor’s own crystal display (avoiding using two layers).

The system arrives, how could it be otherwise, with Fire OS 3.0 “Mojito” (the derived version of Android that Amazon uses) and opens the doors to ecosystem services and content Amazon (books, songs, TV shows and serves as the Silk browser, the Amazon app store or music services and cloud storage).

Amazon has improved some aspects of the operating system by adding the Mode Without Interruptions (which removes the notifications), new views for content, the Quick-Switch (to quickly jump from one application to another) and Mirror Mode to send to a TV (which support Miracast technology) image tablet

addition to the performance-oriented leisure and recreation, new tablets Kindle Fire HDX come wanting to enter the business world . Today it is not uncommon professionals using tablets in their work (either in addition to PC or main work device) and obviously there are increasing safety requirements that we ask these devices. With this in mind, Amazon has provided the new Kindle Fire HDX with information encryption, VPN support, printer connection via Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi connections with business security or Kerberos support.

Indeed, such is the focus that has put Amazon in the corporate sector to the next update of Fire OS 3.1, will support device management applications such as AirWatch or Citrix.

Regarding

peripheral Amazon also sells some cases “Origami style” to adhere magnetically to the device to facilitate attachment and, for example, can be used as a stand, and also activate the operational modes tablet , such as a camera.

HDX Kindle Fire 7 “ is marketed at a price of 229 euros and, today, is available on Amazon for Pre-and officially begin next distribution November 13. The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 “ is sold, starting today, at a price of 379 euros (on presale) and is scheduled to ship on 21 November.

New Kindle Fire

HD

new Kindle Fire HD Spain officially reached a price of 139 euros and, starting today, can buy presale until it begins its official release next October 29th.

Kindle Fire

HD series is unknown we do not, we are talking about a 7-inch device that offers a high screen resolution of 1280×800 at 216 pixels per inch IPS panel that arrives on quite stronger if we consider that, for example, has two speakers with Dolby audio. We are talking about a low price device and therefore technical characteristics correspond to this segment ( Dual-Core processor 1.5 GHz and 1GB of RAM ), there are other tablets of 7 inches on the market with more features but obviously not the target that Amazon wants to occupy.

The new Kindle Fire

HD is a general purpose device designed to open the doors to the ecosystem of services and content from Amazon, ie access our music files on Amazon Kindle this electronic book or access movies and television programs with a more than reasonable (720p video).

previous model, Amazon has improved the resolution of the screen and the processor power while reducing the thickness of the device and provide better performance to the Wi-Fi network tablet . Improvements that obviously are reflected in the experience of using the device you also are improved some aspects related to the Amazon ecosystem.

For starters, the new Kindle Fire HD comes with the new operating system version OS Fire (Fire OS 3.0 “Mojito” , the derivative of Android that Amazon has developed for its * tablets) and with him are improved some aspects related to the presentation of content, improves Silk browser (which delegates to the cloud of the work), parental control is added, the contents are backed up in the cloud storage from Amazon and also Also comes with playing mirroring content .