One of many screensavers on the Kindle Fire HD (with the ad-free option), each screensaver representing a different kind of content - the display is much sharper than I can make it appear here (click the image for my full review)
This was my first touch-screen device (my mobile phone is appreciating in value as an antique!). I bought it because I wanted an affordable entertainment and Skype device that would also connect to a TV and let me try services like LOVEFiLM, as well as being a big-enough tablet to browse the web and get me familiar with Android and touch screen stuff.
The other selling point, for me, was the advertised dual-antenna Wi-Fi connection, as our existing non-touch Kindles sometimes struggle with our router signal. I already have a whole library of Kindle books, and other free documents that we read our existing Kindles, and I was interested in seeing the difference on the Kindle Fire HD with colour, different navigation and a white background.
For anyone interested, I have posted a full review on Amazon, which you will find here, including some hopefully useful information on problems and solutions encountered.
- "Missing Links"
- Amazon removes non-Amazon links from reviews. Here, for convenience, are the direct links that go with my review (and a few other useful links):
- Discussion on connecting the Kindle Fire HD to a TV
- Discussion on keyboard bug, which Amazon will hopefully fix (Feb 2013) - now fixed
- Multiple file types supported by Kindle Fire HD
- Video: How to Side Load Apps on the Kindle Fire HD
- How to copy and paste text on the Kindle Fire (and Kindle Fire HD)
- Kindle Fire HD Tips: Flash Video Player Guide (and a very useful Kindle blog)
- ... and sjoukes sent me these great site suggestions:
- Best Kindle Fire Apps
- Android Cowboy
- Send to Kindle for Google Chrome
If anyone out there has one of these devices, I would be very interested in knowing about your experiences!
