I have read countless articles complain about KF usability, so I was wondering anyone actually jumping ship? Or (according to cnet) Re-gifting your KF. I am quite satisfied with my user experience and will only be more pleased by the soon to come update.
Anyone jumping ship?
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My Kindle Fire has met my expectations. By the reports the device is selling well. It's the so-called tech pundits that are unhappy with how the Kindle Fire isn't an iPad2, a device that costs over twice as much. As I recall, many of these same tech pundits were skeptical about the iPad when it launched.
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Not many tech pundits were skeptical of the iPad because they are almost without exception blindly loyal to Apple and ANYTHING Cupertino ladles into their troughs. All the shortcomings in the design, like lack of cameras or removable storage were excused as part of Steve Jobs' brilliance, but when the Fire comes along lacking those same bullet points, it's bashed for not being as cool as an iPad 2.
How many complaints here have been about how it's not like an iPad and people are disappointed over missing features that were never promised in the first place? It's as if people were told a horse would be good for riding on a farm, buying it, and then griping that it didn't qualify for the Kentucky Derby. "No Bluetooth? Only 8GB of storage? No [something the iPad has]?!? What junk!", is heard over and over. You'd think it was a $199 paperweight or something.
Another thing I'm seeing (elsewhere) is attacks on the forthcoming patch to fix up the carousel and whatnot. People are slamming Amazon for releasing "a crappy product before the bugs were ironed out." Ummmmm, let's see here...a v.1.0 product that's been out for a MONTH is getting an update to improve performance and it's a bad thing, but when Apple put out iOS 5 with bugs that sucked the battery dry, the iClowns just hugged their beloved iWhatevers that much harder. Yeesh.
How many complaints here have been about how it's not like an iPad and people are disappointed over missing features that were never promised in the first place? It's as if people were told a horse would be good for riding on a farm, buying it, and then griping that it didn't qualify for the Kentucky Derby. "No Bluetooth? Only 8GB of storage? No [something the iPad has]?!? What junk!", is heard over and over. You'd think it was a $199 paperweight or something.
Another thing I'm seeing (elsewhere) is attacks on the forthcoming patch to fix up the carousel and whatnot. People are slamming Amazon for releasing "a crappy product before the bugs were ironed out." Ummmmm, let's see here...a v.1.0 product that's been out for a MONTH is getting an update to improve performance and it's a bad thing, but when Apple put out iOS 5 with bugs that sucked the battery dry, the iClowns just hugged their beloved iWhatevers that much harder. Yeesh.
I love mine. I leave my opacity home and take the fire with me when I travel now.
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Nope. I use my Kindle Fire everyday and think the 7 inch form factor is great. Bigger than a phone but compact enough to carry it with me.
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Very pleased. iPads are quite nice, I won't bash them, but I also didn't want to shell out $500 for one. Considering what I use my Fire for, it works great, and I'm pleased.
I think it depends on what you're looking for. If you went to get a Fire thinking it was going to be an iPad you probably were disappointed. If you went in getting a 7" nice basic tablet for browsing, movies, games, etc. you're probably pretty happy.
I think it depends on what you're looking for. If you went to get a Fire thinking it was going to be an iPad you probably were disappointed. If you went in getting a 7" nice basic tablet for browsing, movies, games, etc. you're probably pretty happy.
Me, too. That is, I am very pleased with my KF. Not only does it do all that it was advertised to do, it does more. It certainly does more than I need from it, which only enhances the experience. I'm still learning to love the absence of an actual book but I'm getting there. I actually wanted the KF for easy browsing and email but since it's such a great reader, I'm getting sucked in.
Staying on this cruise and not jumping ship! I also have an IPAD and Xoom and my Fire get's about 75% of my tablet usage. Love the 7" form factor. I also bought a Lenovo A1. Another nice 7" tablet for the price but will probably sell it in the future. Not interested in a 3G fire. Unless the 3G option and usage was free. ;-)
Hardly ever, as in maybe 1 month a year, buy any data usage for my 3G IPAD.
Hardly ever, as in maybe 1 month a year, buy any data usage for my 3G IPAD.
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Very happy with the KF. Have bought 2 more for XMas gifts. I'm guessing most of the complainers aren't tech savvy or didn't know what they were buying or both.
Just as I thought!
People are expecting more from the KF then a then they should. Really close performance to many "full tablets" for nearly half the price really can't complain.
People are expecting more from the KF then a then they should. Really close performance to many "full tablets" for nearly half the price really can't complain.
I love the Kindle Fire, it's a great device. There are a few things that irk me but they aren't major ones and they are ones that I fully was aware about before I got one for my son. In fact, really just the lack of a dedicated volume button is the biggest detractor for me. My son was always grabbing at my phone to play games and now I'm always grabbing his fire to mess around with it and such. Plus, the devs that don't treat their paying customers like criminals from the Android market, you can sideload games right to the Fire without having to root.
Far from it. I am telling everyone around it's the best deal running on a tablet. After I thought long & hard about everything I would likely use one for and observing how my buddies with iPads use them, I realized that Amazon pretty much has tablet usage figured out. I & my wife use them for reading, web browsing, Facebook, gaming, and consuming video & music. This would've been the same regardless of which device we chose, but the Kindle Fire's size is perfect: small enough to slip in a jacket/cargo pocket or a purse, small enough to comfortably hold while reading or browsing, but big enough that video & games are viewed well on it. I love the display on this thing.
I thought storage would be an issue, but when I thought about it, my G2 has less than 2GB available & that was only half full with my 16GB SD card less than half full as well. Storage was never an issue on it, so why would it be on the Kindle? My music is stored on Google Music for backup, with Audiogalaxy as primary for streaming. I have subs to Netflix & Hulu+ which both work very well on the Fire. The only things that truly take up space are apps. When you look at the Nook Tablet & its 1GB storage limit for non-B&N content it really shifts the balance towards the Kindle Fire.
Bottom line: it does everything I want in a table and now that mine is rooted (my wife's isn't & she's perfectly happy with it that way...she uses her's just as much as I do mine) it actually does even more. Google Market & Apps (especially GMail & Calendar), full Documents to Go, SwiftkeyX & ADW LauncherPro essentially make this a full tablet. I can't wait for CM9 to roll out to it too. Sure Bluetooth would be nice, and the back button should be more responsive, but the first is not truly needed (and not expected at the price) and the second will likely be fixed soon. I could spend $100 more and still not beat this device. Jump ship? Please, Amazon will have a buyer here for their next one too. Matter of fact...make that two.
I thought storage would be an issue, but when I thought about it, my G2 has less than 2GB available & that was only half full with my 16GB SD card less than half full as well. Storage was never an issue on it, so why would it be on the Kindle? My music is stored on Google Music for backup, with Audiogalaxy as primary for streaming. I have subs to Netflix & Hulu+ which both work very well on the Fire. The only things that truly take up space are apps. When you look at the Nook Tablet & its 1GB storage limit for non-B&N content it really shifts the balance towards the Kindle Fire.
Bottom line: it does everything I want in a table and now that mine is rooted (my wife's isn't & she's perfectly happy with it that way...she uses her's just as much as I do mine) it actually does even more. Google Market & Apps (especially GMail & Calendar), full Documents to Go, SwiftkeyX & ADW LauncherPro essentially make this a full tablet. I can't wait for CM9 to roll out to it too. Sure Bluetooth would be nice, and the back button should be more responsive, but the first is not truly needed (and not expected at the price) and the second will likely be fixed soon. I could spend $100 more and still not beat this device. Jump ship? Please, Amazon will have a buyer here for their next one too. Matter of fact...make that two.
Another happy Fire User here. I knew what features it had when I preordered mine. I don't need a camera on it (I have a Droid, which is always with me). My music was already stored at Amazon. It does exactly what I want for the price I was willing to pay.
Sometimes bells and whistles aren't necessary and in the end aren't all that usable. I can't imagine whipping out a 10" tablet to take a quick picture, but maybe I'm in the minority.
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Sometimes bells and whistles aren't necessary and in the end aren't all that usable. I can't imagine whipping out a 10" tablet to take a quick picture, but maybe I'm in the minority.
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Now that they took root away from me, I may return it, or just exchange it for one that I can load the pre-rooted update onto, kinda sucks they don't want people to root, now I cannot take screenshots, backup my apps, move apps to a less used partition, change my keyboard to something useful, install apps like Google Currents, turn on the ability to access adhoc networks, the list goes on and on, now I am stuck with a device that feels like a $199 device that I paid too much for, but with Root it felt like a $499 tablet I got for $199. Hope those XDA guys find a new root procedure for those that were caught off guard on this update. Anyone know if the nook tablet is easily rootable?
I am pretty sure it was known before that a lot of these updates could and more than likely break root.
I think you can still root it again and will be fine, just expect the same to happen with the next update. Unless XDA finds perm root.....
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I think you can still root it again and will be fine, just expect the same to happen with the next update. Unless XDA finds perm root.....
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