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At least for me, part of the reason I like the Fire is that it isn't the full Android experience - I have a Archos tablet, that I don't use for any reason other

At least for me, part of the reason I like the Fire is that it isn't the full Android experience - I have a Archos tablet, that I don't use for any reason other than to test things. With the Fire I look past/don't see the parts of Android that I dislike - and I think a lot of that is that I really only use the Kindle for the occasional E-Book/App, watch a streaming video, or listen to music. For the subset of things that I actually want it for, it does well - very well in my opinion. I'm sure it likely falls flat if you expect more out of it (which it sounds like he did).

dangero 15y ago
This is what I've found too. I just spent my evening enjoyably using my Kindle Fire when I could have just as easily picked up my iPad. The size is actually refreshing to me and the interface has some really nice features. All these reviews seem really off the mark to me. The PR about this product is about what you can do with it. You can watch movies, read books, and play games. The product page makes very little mention of Android. They aren't selling it as an Android tablet. It's an Amazon Kindle tablet, and in spite of all the reviews, I think it's going to be a big hit. I can only imagine how popular the Kindle Fire 2 will be once they have time to refine everything.
SomeCallMeTim 15y ago
What version of Android is the Archos tablet running: 1.6? Even 2.2 is clunky compared to 3.0, and 4.0 looks wonderful. More to the point, none of the Archos tablets (that I'm aware of) come with the "full Google/Android" experience either. They use appslib.com to distribute apps, which has less coverage than the Amazon AppStore, and it comes with none of the other Google apps either. So you're comparing the Fire, a non-Google experience, with the Archos, another non-Google experience. Not relevant.
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dangero 15y ago

This is what I've found too. I just spent my evening enjoyably using my Kindle Fire when I could have just as easily picked up my iPad. The size is actually refreshing to me and the interface has some really nice features. All these reviews seem really off the mark to me. The PR about this product is about what you can do with it. You can watch movies, read books, and play games. The product page makes very little mention of Android. They aren't selling it as an Android tablet. It's an Amazon Kindle tablet, and in spite of all the reviews, I think it's going to be a big hit. I can only imagine how popular the Kindle Fire 2 will be once they have time to refine everything.

SomeCallMeTim 15y ago

What version of Android is the Archos tablet running: 1.6? Even 2.2 is clunky compared to 3.0, and 4.0 looks wonderful. More to the point, none of the Archos tablets (that I'm aware of) come with the "full Google/Android" experience either. They use appslib.com to distribute apps, which has less coverage than the Amazon AppStore, and it comes with none of the other Google apps either. So you're comparing the Fire, a non-Google experience, with the Archos, another non-Google experience. Not relevant.

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