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Amazon introduces new Kindle HDX tablets and new 'Mayday' tech support feature
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article published on 25 September, 2013
Amazon has introduced new higher-end Kindle Fire tablets, dubbed HDX, in 7-inch and 8.9-inch varieties.
The displays feature very nice resolutions, 1920x1200 at 323 ppi for 7" and 2560x1600 at 339 ppi for the 8.9" and under the hood are quad-core Snapdragon 800 processors running at 2.2GHz. Amazon boasts that they are the only company offering clock speeds above 2GHz.
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hearme0
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25. September 2013 @ 13:56 |
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Lame!
Kindle anything is so geared to just reading books..........the one thing I don't care about as all the reading I want is on the web.
Galaxy Note 10.1 is supreme.
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SProdigy
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25. September 2013 @ 14:36 |
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Originally posted by hearme0:
Lame!
Kindle anything is so geared to just reading books..........the one thing I don't care about as all the reading I want is on the web.
Galaxy Note 10.1 is supreme.
I had the original and I disagree with you. Even to the lay person, this little gadget does more than just books. It has access to many of the same apps as other Android tablets. The newer models are beefier and it's a great alternative to the Galaxy tabs for the price.
And if you're a techie, you could just wipe the stock OS and put on your own flavor of Android.
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25. September 2013 @ 15:44 |
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Originally posted by SProdigy:
Originally posted by hearme0:
Lame!
Kindle anything is so geared to just reading books..........the one thing I don't care about as all the reading I want is on the web.
Galaxy Note 10.1 is supreme.
I had the original and I disagree with you. Even to the lay person, this little gadget does more than just books. It has access to many of the same apps as other Android tablets. The newer models are beefier and it's a great alternative to the Galaxy tabs for the price.
And if you're a techie, you could just wipe the stock OS and put on your own flavor of Android.
I totally agree with you! Beefy specs and at a very good price. I'm definitely going to consider buying one. Great bang for my buck!
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25. September 2013 @ 18:53 |
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All those nice specs don't amount to too much with no expandable memory for the stuff which will make use of them. I skipped last year's Fire for that reason alone. I can squeeze only a paltry number of comic books on my first gen along with my literature; let alone apps, music, or movies. Upon discovering this I regretted my decision of the Kindle over the Nook, but I suppose that didn't help them too much.
I also take some issue with the odd resolution. What could a vertical resolution of 1200 serve that would outweigh the annoyance of the poor resizing of 1080p video? Yuck.
Still, the support feature sounds like a cool addition for those of us who wouldn't buy the thing with the intent of putting a custom ROM on it, the specs are rather nice, and I'm quite fond of how the Kindle tablets have looked.
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25. September 2013 @ 23:39 |
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Originally posted by hearme0:
Lame!
Kindle anything is so geared to just reading books..........the one thing I don't care about as all the reading I want is on the web.
Galaxy Note 10.1 is supreme.
You're right. You are lame!
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Bozobub
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26. September 2013 @ 05:13 |
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Originally posted by nintenut:
...I also take some issue with the odd resolution. What could a vertical resolution of 1200 serve that would outweigh the annoyance of the poor resizing of 1080p video? Yuck...
Believe it or not, the media player you use for playback will make a big difference when resizing video. For instance, both MX Player and BSPlayer are better at rescaling than the stock Android player.
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Tarsellis
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27. September 2013 @ 11:07 |
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That 1200 resolution also lets you keep your soft buttons while watching 1080p in unscaled resolution. Not to mention more screen real estate when watching 1.85, 2.2, and 2.35 aspect ratios, which many movies are shot in.
I'd rather more nexus software so I could get out of the Amazon walled garden, but those specs beat the Galaxy 7 FHD at the same price point (assuming RAM and storage match).
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SProdigy
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27. September 2013 @ 12:20 |
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I get around the small storage space by using cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc. Let's be honest with ourselves. Do we really need a bunch of movies or books that we'll never watch or read. It's just clutter. Better to download it when I need it and not spend more for larger storage.
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