iPad vs Kindle Fire Air HDX 8.9: Comparison - Tablet Zone

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has never hidden, as evidenced by its advertising, which claims that their tablets are to be true rival to the almighty iPad , and doubt that the last generation have taken the rest to have specs of first line and a price which is really hard to compete. Is it enough to get users to steal Apple ? We show you a comparative of the main features of iPad Air and the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 so you can judge for yourselves what would be the winner.

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Design

This is one of the sections in which the differences between the two tablets are clearer, or at least they are at a glance: with respect to the front, facing the low side frames iPad Air in Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 we find regular side frames relatively thick, in regard to the back cover, in addition to material differences ( aluminum to Apple Tablet and plastic for Amazon ), the angular design of the new generation of Kindle Fire 8.9 is the opposite of minimalism iPad .

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Dimensions

The size difference between the two screens is substantial ( nearly an inch less of diagonal Amazon Tablet ), which logically reflected in its dimensions: the iPad Air is longer ( 24 cm front 23.1 cm ) and wider ( 16, 95 cm against 15.8 cm ). The difference in weight, in any case, is the most notable: Apple Tablet weighs about 100 grams (469 grams against 374 grams ). In thickness, however, the tablet comes out victorious apple company 7.5 mm 7.8 mm versus .

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As mentioned, the Kindle Fire screen HDX 8.9 is significantly smaller than the iPad Air ( 9.7 inches 8.9 inch front ), but not the only difference we can see immediately, as the tablet of Cupertino is more square (4:3 aspect ratio ) the Amazon ( 16:9 aspect ratio ). Despite the prestige of the Retina display, the differences in resolution no less notable: Tablet Apple is 1536 x 2048 (264 PPI ) and Amazon of 1600 x 2560 (339 PPI ). This afternoon we have shown, moreover, that the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 have managed to overcome the iPad Air in various image quality test.

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Performance

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800 quad-core 2.3 GHz for the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and A7 of 64 bits on the iPad Air . Amazon Tablet , however, would certainly be higher RAM with 2GB , but the fact is that we usually find deficiencies in this regard in the iDevices are felt not only in the user experience.

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OS

This is probably one of the most potential buyers will win the iPad Air , given fanbase iOS that exist, while the Kindle Fire range do not even have the total support of the hardcore Android , because it is a version of this so heavily customized that it is virtually unrecognizable and that, in fact, got its name from Amazon : Fire OS .

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devices Google , this is always one of the areas in which Amazon tablets and Apple are most objectionable, simply because of the fact not to give users the ability to expand the available space through micro-SD cards (as you know, presumably with the aim of encouraging the use of its storage services in the cloud). In return, at least we have the option of getting both tablets quite hard: up 64 GB for the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and up to 128 GB iPad in the Air .

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Amazon as Apple are always reluctant to give the exact figures of battery capacity so that in the absence of autonomy test real, the only reference we have at the moment are the estimates of the companies themselves: the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 should support up to 12 hours of use without recharging (reaching 17 hours if used only for reading), and iPad Air 10 hours . These data are confirmed in independent autonomy test will, without doubt, an important small victory for Amazon , since Apple tablets always been the dominating in this section.

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dir=”ltr”> Amazon’s Tablet also worth noting again, thanks to its rear camera 8 MP with LED flash (opposite of 5 MP iPad Air ) and stereo speakers technology Dolby Digital Plus . In regard to the front chamber, however, the situation is matched with two cameras capable of recording video calls 720p .

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Price

If iPad Air has Kindle Fire versus HDX with the trick undoubted popularity, Amazon Tablet has going for it, however a price much more competitive: while the most affordable model iPad Air (16 GB and WiFi) sells for 479 euros , the equivalent of the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 can be obtained by $ 379 , ie 100 euros less.

The differences are also important if we look for models with more storage capacity: each time you double the memory in the iPad Air the price goes 90 euros , while the Kindle Fire HDX does in only 50 euros . The difference is less pronounced, however, in relation to the mobile connection, which raises the price of Apple Tablet 120 euro s, and that of Amazon 100 euros .