After getting an overwhelming dominance in the market for e-book readers, the Kindle family expanded two years ago with Fire tablets, models recently renovated with new HDX .
Kindle Fire
HDX of 8.9 inches is the crown jewel of the Amazon tablets currently. And no wonder. Your weight and take a spectacular display outstanding plenty in our analysis 8.9-inch Kindle Fire , but Amazon stumbles back with its ecosystem, still not fully in Spain. Come and read.
Kindle FireHDX 8.9, main features
We start our analysis
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 reviewing key features on paper.
 Kindle Fire HDX 8.9″ | |
|---|---|
| Screen | 8.9 inches |
| resolution | 2560 × 1600 pixels |
| Density | 339 dpi |
| Processor | 2.2 Ghz Snapdragon 800 |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Internal Memory | 16/32/64 GB |
| Weight | 374 gr. |
| Thickness | 7.8 mm |
| Connectivity | wireless n dual band / dual antenna |
| Autonomy | 12 hours |
| Cameras | 8 MP with LED flash / 2 MP class=”caps”> (f2.2) |
| Price | |
Design
Highlight
currently by design in the segment of tablets is not easy. But the overall design of the Kindle Fire HDX I have to say that I liked. It is true that the finish is plastic, but set gives the feeling of robustness .
Amazon has done an excellent job with the weight of the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 but could have done more to reduce the frames to make it more manageable yet
In this model the Amazon tablet also gains some personality thanks to the beveled edges finished and the dual material rear. Most of the back cover is plastic finishing touch rubber, less pleasant than the smooth but grip is key to this type of equipment generously sized. Only at the top, where stereo camera with flash are the speakers becomes shiny plastic with a purely visual goal.
Followingus is unconvincing, especially the side, which could be reduced more and gain portability framework. If so, few tablets could compete in this respect with the Kindle Fire HDX because this tablet is primarily light. Until you have it in your hands do not realize how little weight, making it very comfortable to use even with one hand in portrait mode to read, despite its 8.9 inches. Really surprised this aspect over others. In figures are only 374 grams , considerably less than the previous generation, which has particular and according to Amazon, the new internal structure in magnesium worked.
Another touch of personality that we love about this Kindle Fire HDX has to do with the placement physical power and volume controls . These are on the sides, but placed inside the housing drawing the beveled end thereof. I have personally been practical like having them there, especially the ignition, which is accessible in a more “natural” to take the tablet in landscape format, which will be standard, but not so much when using the Fire HDX in portrait mode.
other connections are only the microUSB port for charging and headphone output. No memory card slot to increase the internal memory or use streaming content directly from it. Nor has included Amazon HDMI output make much sense in a tablet intended for access primarily to content.
the Kindle Fire HDX have convinced me especially the speakers. are heard really good for a tablet and be placed in the back (my preference is still to be included in the front because it is more logical), with a powerful sound without excessive distortion. A good point no doubt for anyone who wants to give use very focused on playing music and video, with the help of Dolby Digital Plus technology, which optimizes the Amazon tablet fairly accurate way (especially the dialogue) the audio depending on what we are giving.
Regarding the camera, the rear main 8 megapixel camera with flash gives an acceptable result, slightly above average, but neither seems to be a critical facet will choose a tablet or camera above the a current high-end smartphone.
Screen
The crown jewel of this Kindle Fire HDX is its screen, LCD says that Amazon is individually calibrated before leaving the factory. In its 8.9-inch diagonal online retail giant has not been hesitant to give a resolution of 2560 × 1600 pixels, which makes a monstrous pixel density of 339 ppi .
The Kindle Fire screen HDX 8.9 is not only special for its pixel density but the brightness and color reproduction as the opponent has placed aa beat today by other tablets on the market
But you have her in front to check beyond cold data that is superb, with a very faithful reproduction of color, more than enough brightness (400 nits), excellent viewing angles and visualization Correct outdoors. It does include a polarization filter, glare reduction and dynamic contrast adjustment that seeks to optimize the display according to the ambient light conditions.
Performance and battery
With so many pixels to manage, Amazon had the power to take care of your new Kindle Fire HDX . For this occasion he has chosen and well-known 2.2 Ghz Snapdragon 800 together with 2 GB RAM memory . How Amazon has taken this combination is remarkable, as we have achieved in Geekbench score of 2576, very close to what we got with the iPad Air, by comparison.
daily, the operating system takes full advantage of this processor and our user experience has been completely satisfactory in terms of fluency, responsiveness and overall performance , whether playing content or games.
About
disk space, depends on the use you want to give your tablet and what you want to spend, but the 16GB model leaves only 10 GB of space for our content. If you are going to abuse offline content may be a good idea from 32GB model , which already leaves us as the Amazon itself, 25 GB for us.
As for the battery, is another point where the Amazon Kindle stand out very well. In continuous media playback we managed to always achieve more than 9 hours, an incredible fact, and mixed use we can be more than two days without worrying about the battery.
Operating System
If you’re looking tablet on the diagonal there are about nine inches, you will have seen by now that the Kindle Fire HDX Amazon offers the best in the vast majority of technical sections . But the final decision and advance that you’re going to have to be based almost exclusively on the operating system. Yes, it is true that it is an Android tablet, but too special, at least in Spain.
FireOS great value of 3.0 is the integration ecosystem of content and services Amazon in a simple and functional interface. It is at least USA , because in Spain, a thick highlight of that content, video (Amazon Instant Video) has not yet been implemented, and this Kindle Fire HDX lost interest since.
The Kindle Fire
HDX is an Android tablet, yes, but not too special if “you” into the Amazon ecosystem, something especially difficult in Spain multimedia content section
interface FireOS new version 3.0 is an old and known for Engadget. We still have a very striking plant carousel and simple to manage the last thing we did with the tablet , be it a photo album, applications, video content, e-book or song. Just below find the closest thing to a classic desktop, with a few rows of application icons that can increase sliding the screen up and where we can now group content / applications folders (called collections Amazon). And above all, categories of content and services available for the user.
If we do this gesture from the side (or bottom, always where we display a small tab always visible), when we’re within an application, we appear shortcuts to the past we have used or content you have seen recently and we can launch instantly without going through the main screen. If instead we do this gesture from the frame up, a popup appears to us to manage some configuration parameters such as brightness or wireless connectivity, plus the notifications panel. What does not exist here is the yes button Mayday enjoying USA and it gives us a direct line to customer service of Amazon.
The other interface is the only thing we can remind the consumer knows that Android, with small menus and where Amazon has not wanted / could enter, but it should completely change it if Android is your mission.
Something
be a little frustrating for those not familiar with how Amazon works FireOS is the absence of the official Google app store . There is no way to access it, and in return we own Amazon is certain that includes most applications we will need, but not all. A very prominent example is the absence of the (official) Youtube application, or can not install another browser to make competition Silk, which Amazon included by default.
As mentioned, only if you are a pure consumer of content from Amazon, especially books, find great value in integrating this Kindle, but please read the customer and the same or almost similar integration in iOS or Android get with the application. But it is a joy to go browsing Amazon purchased books and suggest you by this author, or related, and purchasing power in less time than it takes to think.
opinion and note Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 at Engadget
Amazon
no remains committed to establish a user experience with the Kindle reader, but at around multimedia tablet . Also based on the combination of an attractive price and hardware virtually flawless in quality, with perfectly integrated services.
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Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 used that formula, and the result is outstanding level of hardware performance but especially overwhelming for rivals in weight and screen , tuition. However, the desire to focus all the experience in the ecosystem, from content to store applications, clashes in some territories like Spain in that experience can not be complete. This is the case of all things related to video, whose experience has not convinced us
Not that its interface does not work on Android, which is smooth and easy to use. But the refusal to accommodate the official store of Google results that we are limitations at the time to find some application, with particularly striking cases.
8.6
Screen 9.75
Performance 9.5
Software
6
Autonomy 9.5
Pros
- spectacular display in all sections
- Weight
- Performance and autonomy
very small
Against
- OS ecosystem focused on Amazon
- little usable video series
- Ports
Paragraph
very few
The tablet has been loaned for testing by Amazon. You can see our business relations policy
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