Thursday, December 19, 2013

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX: Analysis - quesabesde.com

Text: Stephanie Perez | Photos: Alvaro Mendez

Leading the segment of 7-inch tablets. That’s what Amazon intends to achieve with the smaller version of its Kindle Fire HDX, a device that looked light last September led by an excellent display of 1200 × 1900 pixels with a density of 323 dots per inch. Available from 230 euros, this tablet has a priori with sufficient assets to stand up to the new Google Nexus 7 and even the newcomer with Retina display iPad mini. The absence of Google Play and all that it entails-less apps available, in short, is nevertheless a handicap to take into account.

Late last September Amazon tablets renewed its line with two new models: a slightly improved Kindle Fire HD and HDX powerful Kindle Fire. The latter came as usual-in devices e-commerce giant paneled versions 7 and 8.9 inches.

Kindle Fire

HDX of smaller dimensions, with which we have had the opportunity to tinker for a few days, put in at the Spanish market in November championing a screen of 1200 x 1900 pixels resolution with a density of 323 dots per inch, the same figures that boasts the new Google Nexus 7.

Using Fire version 3.0 OS (a modified house brand Android 4.2.2) and housing a quad-core Snapdragon processor from 800 to 2.2 GHz and 2 GB of RAM inside, the Amazon new computer arrives with the intention of facing the aforementioned tablet of Mountain View and the new iPad Mini with Retina display. With a drive in his hands, it’s time to check whether or not live up to its rivals.

Aesthetically the new tablet from Amazon is quite similar to its predecessor. In fact, if we look ahead, we find no differences. Like the Amazon Kindle Fire HD launched in September 2012, the Kindle Fire again HDX frame your panel 7 inch bevels in our view somewhat excessive.

buttons behind

Kindle Fire

HDX panel framing her 7 inch bevels somewhat excessive. The only two physical buttons are concentrated in the back

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two physical controls consisting of the SET is located in the rear. Thus, if we hold the tablet in landscape, the volume control is within reach of the index and ring fingers of our right hand, while the power button, lock off and left at the mercy of the index finger of your left hand.

The team also has a micro-USB connector on the left side and an input for headphones on the right, and only integrates a camera in the front. Yes there are notable changes in the back of the Kindle Fire HDX compared to its predecessor.

Made of black plastic, it has two different textures: softer in its two speakers, which are located incorporate audio technology Dolby Digital Plus and offer good quality sound, incidentally-and one rougher covering the rest of the team and it will prevent us from slipping while you’re holding hands.

With dimensions of 186 x 128 x 9 mm and weighing 303 grams, the new Amazon tablet does improve the odds of Kindle Fire HD in this section. 193 x 137 x 10 mm and 395 grams

HDX riding a Kindle Fire 7-inch screen that increases the resolution of 800 x 1280 pixels thrown by the panel of its predecessor until very notable 1200 x 1920 points. In addition, the panel reaches a density of 323 dots per inch (dpi), slightly lower than the newcomer iPad mini (326 dpi), but looks exactly the same as the Nexus 7 screen generation, one of its main rivals to beat.

duel screens

panel 7-inch 1200 x 1920 pixel resolution of the Kindle Fire HDX reaches a density of 323 dots per inch (dpi), virtually identical to the newcomer iPad mini with Retina display (326 ppi)

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Méndez Álvaro (Quesabesde)

With these data it is not surprising that the screen of this Kindle distill outstanding sharpness. It also offers excellent viewing angles, with vivid colors and uniforms even when looked at obliquely team.

performance outdoor panel also approved with a note, and it may have something to do with the new technology that claims to have provided the Amazon Kindle Fire screen HDX.

what the company calls “dynamic contrast adjustment” and whose task is to automatically optimize the color of each pixel based on the degree of illumination environment.

Another

supposed benefits in the Amazon is emphasizing the use of LED emitting blue on your screen instead of white to optimize color reproduction. However, this causes the edges of the panel will be stained a light bluish loading content with white background as web pages and books.

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX
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panel edges are tinged with a slight bluish tint loading content with white background as web pages and books

This undesirable effect has already caused a stir among the first buyers of the Kindle Fire HDX, which were not very clear if it was a manufacturing defect or the screen really should be with that kind of blue glow.

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soon rule, and to the surprise of some the company made it clear that this is something completely “normal”. Thus, and although certainly are not bothersome, bluish edges will be something we have to live with those who decide this tablet.

Although at first glance it may seem, the Kindle Fire HDX uses Android 4.2.2. The device is attached to the operating system of Google, but Amazon-as usual-mask handles almost complete Android experience with its Fire OS 3.0 layer, also known as Mojito.

So, we came to a tablet interface which is far from what I used any other Android device, but they almost repeated the same formula seen in previous devices in the U.S. firm.

On the Home screen

we meet with the particular carousel in the last content viewed appear as books, songs or applications. Slide your finger from the bottom of the screen up, access a new section that certain applications and content stored on your computer (a comparable concept to the typical Android menu) come together.

Shortcuts

Sliding your finger from the bottom of the screen upwards (left image), access a new section that certain applications and content stored in the team come together. Doing the same gesture but from top to bottom, the typical notification menu opens

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If we make the same gesture from the top panel down, it displays a notification center which also found a number of shortcuts to functions such as adjusting the brightness or wireless networks, as well as access the configuration panel Kindle Fire HDX.

in this paragraph where the novel would stand MayDay button by which you can get help 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for free by a member of the support team Amazon also has access to the tablet to remotely troubleshoot incidents. And we use the conditional because, unfortunately, this is a service that is not available for Spain. Your place is the traditional icon help.

Back to the home screen, on top rests a menu with options like “Games”, “Applications”, “Books”, “Music” or “Videos” that allow us to access our library of each of these elements. “Buy”, meanwhile, gives us access how-not-to the Amazon store where we can acquire both physical and digital products.

Within these

content libraries we can create what the company calls “Collections” and actually come to be simple folders you can move to the home screen.

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX

Amazon has included a new menu for quick access to the latest applications executed. To access it simply slide the control bar to the center of the panel

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novel MayDay button for assistance 24 hours a day for free by a member of the support team of Amazon is not available in Spain

As already mentioned, the Kindle Fire HDX dispenses with physical buttons, beyond those intended to control the volume and turn on or off the computer. Instead, is reproduced below bar or control panel-lateral placement as tablet-disappearing when content is playing full screen. To convene again you need to press a tab that remains visible on one edge.

success by Amazon has been to include a new menu for quick access to the latest applications and content accessed executed, like a book, a magazine or a music album. To access it simply slide the aforementioned lateral control bar to the center of the panel.

Despite

be grounded on Android, the Kindle Fire HDX is not possible to access Google Play. Indeed, we can only download and purchase content through the Amazon app store.

The vast majority of the most popular applications and games are available in the App Store of e-commerce giant, but undoubtedly its range is more limited than the Google app store. Attract your attention absences as large-for example, Instagram or YouTube, among others.

No store

Google

Despite

be grounded on Android, the Kindle Fire HDX is not possible to access Google Play. We must therefore comply with the Amazon store, attract your attention where major absences as Instagram or YouTube

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Méndez Álvaro (Quesabesde)

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Facing

Amazon ecosystem, the user ends up with the strange feeling that the device continuously invites you to buy

Similarly

is not possible to use another web browser than the standard preinstalled (Silk), and not allowed to configure the device to our liking. For example, unlike other Android tablets, here we can not even change the wallpaper.

when buying music, Amazon offers a large catalog of songs, yet their service rental and sale of movies and series are not yet available for Spain. Yes, the Kindle Fire HDX is a perfect gift for avid readers gadget , which is that both the supply and the eBook reader are integrated, how could it be otherwise-very complete .

Outstanding performance

Despite the limitations imposed by Amazon, the user experience provided by this tablet is faultless. And no wonder, because inside it is a quad-core Snapdragon 800 to 2.2 GHz GPU Adreno accompanied by a 330 and 2 GB of RAM.

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX

fluidity offered by the Kindle Fire HDX is enviable, and during our tests did not hesitate when running games or applications requiring an extra dose of power.

regarding its autonomy, the device is capable of supporting an entire day reading, playing videos and browsing. A life that can extend well into the early hours only if we turn to him to read a good book.

great tablet with a stain on the record

No doubt that this Kindle Fire HDX has one of the best techniques of the time sheets. With a very remarkable Full HD, a powerful processor, 2 GB of RAM screen and speakers that offer good sound quality, the new team of Amazon is a very tempting proposition. And if you mention that the version with 16 GB of memory is available for a price of 230 euros, its appeal increases exponentially.

But those who decide to buy a Kindle Fire HDX should be aware that it is an ecosystem-oriented tablet Amazon. So much so that the wearer ends up having the strange feeling that, somehow, the device continually invites you to shop.

More worrying is the lack of Google Play unforgivable. The Amazon app store that provides the user to plug this gap does not get us ovlidar with the Kindle Fire HDX are forced to give up large catalog of titles that holds today the reference store of Android.

Amazon Kindle Fire HDX
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an excellent screen, good performance and attractive price, the Kindle Fire HDX is the absence of Google Play Achilles heel

As usual, Amazon offers device versions with and without advertising (with and without special offers, as reflected in the website of the company), the latter being slightly cheaper.

Thus, models that show ads cost between 230 and 310 euros depending on the different storage capacities available (16, 32 and 64 GB), while the price of the ad-free versions between 250 and 330 euros .

Price

certainly are more competitive than the new iPad Mini with Retina (390 euros for the 16GB version) screen, but nevertheless agree with the other bearers of its competitors, the new Nexus 7 with very similar specs, the trick has to offer the latest version of Android (KitKat) without layers of customization.

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