An Amazon customer who desires to consume Amazon products and it works great for this. This is what Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi should have been. This device will help you consume more Amazon content and media than you
have before and is this a bad thing? Not if you are an Amazon customer.
The screen is fantastic. But my problem is the same as when iPad got
Retina Display, other than the OS, everything else looks kind of...meh.
Games are not high definition and neither are the movies I streamed
using Netflix and Amazon Prime, at least not high enough to look smooth
on this screen. I could see a good amount of pixelation. Hopefully apps
get updated to higher resolutions.
PROS:
1. Vibrant Screen
2. Much more responsive to the Touch than the original Kindle ever was.
3. Games that stuttered on the Original, play flawlessly on the HD.
4. The speakers are awesome, Loud, clear and crisp. No need for the Volume + app like on the original fire.
5. The device is slim, sleek and sexy. Really like the curves on the back and the styling.
6. Front facing camera works great for SKYPE. Quality was better than that on my SIII phone.
7.
Wifi seems a bit faster, but not by much. Silk still isnt an optimal
browser though. I have 65Mbps Download and 15Mbps Upload subscribed
service.
8. Cloud sync worked like a charm, almost everything from my old fire is not on my new Fire HD.
9. The device feels sturdy and well built.
CONS:
1.
The "Customers Also Bought" on the bottom of the home screen is
terrible. I can care less about what others bought. The advertisements
on the Lock Screen are fine and understandable, they really dont bother
me at all or with the function of the device. The CAB on the home
screen take away from having your favorites immediately accessible and
are extremely intrusive with no option to remove it. I would gladly
keep the ads on the lockscreen and pay 15 bucks to get rid of the CAB on
the homescreen. Enough on that.
2. I work in a hospital and I know
11 people including my wife who now is a proud owner of a Fire HD. One
thing we have all noticed is that sometimes when you unlock your device,
the speakers will make a popping sound, sort of like a static or
feedback. Hopefully this gets fixed.
3. Compared to the Original
fire, there is a noticeable delay when clicking on apps or games. It
seems more prevalent on certain apps but the same apps have no issue on
the original Fire. More prevalent on the HD than on the original.
4.
Magic books. For some odd reason, things I remove from the carousel
magically reappear to irritate me constantly. I am a bit OCD and only
want what I use to be on my carousel and nothing more. Hopefully this
will be fixed as well.
5. Certain apps that were available on the
Kindle Fire, are not available on the Kindle Fire HD. Accuweather for
example is no longer a free app on the HD neither is ScreenDim.
6. I
do not understand why we cannot use a different keyboard like Swiftkey.
That would be a massive upgrade over the stock keyboard.
