Reviewers show themselves divided about the Kindle Fire, the first tablet of onlineretailer Amazon. The tablet, which in the United States 200 dollar cost, as a competitor to the Apple iPad. The price is biggest plus point seen.
Especially the software will get criticism in the reviews, all of which Monday night appeared because of the expiration of an embargo. The letters are sometimes small and the Fire crashes regularly, says Mashable. “I am convinced that the size of the letters and oddities in the interface to the operating system that the Fire runs Android 2.3. It doesn’t feel like the interface is designed for a 7″device or this device.”
The Equation shows that it is also critically about the hardware. So missing the volume buttons. “You need a series of clicks to do to change the volume.” In addition to disappear the on-screen buttons for Home, Menu and Back automatically. “Bustle I accidentally hit the power button when I was typing.”
Columnist David Pogue of The New York Times fakkelt the Fire completely. “If you’re used to an iPad or other Android tablet, you will absolutely love the gremlins in the software.” Engadget is there partly agree. “When you compare it with other tablets, the Kindle Fire not meet.” The site has many positive points given. “It offers a lot for its price and is the best integration of digital content for purchase that we have seen up until now.”
The browser, which is the name of the Silk wears and would be accelerated by all the sites to load via the private cloudservers Amazon, its performance is mixed. Wired calls it the performance even ‘crap’. The size of the tablet is praised. “For many users this will be an ideal size,” says The Verge. The Kindle Fire comes out this week. It is still unknown whether and when the tablet in the Netherlands is released.
