Amazon Kindle Fire Table-Consumer Benefits
Amazon.com Inc’s first tablet computer, the $199 Kindle Fire, shipped on Nov 14. While compatible with Android, the Apps work with Amazon products. So Amazon rules the low-end market and walks away with zero profit.
Many consumers have been testing the new device and sharing their initial thoughts on the review section of the company’s web site. The Kindle Fire gets four stars out of five – the average rating of more than 550 reviews as of Wednesday evening.
An Amazon customer calling himself Trevett from Astoria, Oregon gave the Kindle Fire four stars out of five and wrote that the device has “a few flaws.” This was rated the most-useful review as of Wednesday afternoon. Those consumer benefits
The Disadvantages, Got The Facts in few days
Several customers wrote that the Internet browser is slow. That surprised some because Amazon has been touting its new Silk browsing technology, which uses the company’s massive cloud computing resources to speed up the loading of web pages. Amazon advertises ‘ultra fast web browsing’ using Amazon’s Silk browser. It is based off of technology that is designed to increase page loading times by pre-fetching part of the content. Sounds like a great idea, but doesn’t work as well in practice.
Tried out the Fire on several different connections and compared page loading times with other devices (all connected wirelessly). The Fire was one of the slowest. Amazon’s own web page, which has actually recently been optimized to work with the Fire, takes an average of 7 seconds to load.
One buyer said he also owns an Apple iPad and a Motorola Xoom, which both loaded pages much faster than the Kindle Fire. If you have a lot of experience with the iPad, you are going to notice that the software doesn’t respond as quickly on the Fire as it does with other tablets.
There was also some grumbling about the software and user interface, which responds more slowly than expected, according to some customers.
Another wrote he liked the Fire’s interface, but added that it does not work as well as the Xoom, which also runs on a version of Google’s Android operating system.
Amazon spokeswoman Kinley Pearsall said that the Silk browser will get faster as more customers use it. “Expect it to continue to get faster in the coming weeks,” she added. The technology is designed to learn which web sites users visit often.
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Amazon Kindle Fire Android Tablet: Conclusion
It’s hard to tell how much all this will affect in last month of the year, but I think it will probably give those who were on the fence and waiting for these initial reviews pause.
