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So the August 2013 Nexus 7 has a quad core 1.5g Snapdragon S4 Pro but the October 2013 Kindle HDX 7 has a quad core 2.2g Snapdragon 800. I'm not up to snuff on

So the August 2013 Nexus 7 has a quad core 1.5g Snapdragon S4 Pro but the October 2013 Kindle HDX 7 has a quad core 2.2g Snapdragon 800. I'm not up to snuff on mobile processors but, according to what I'm seeing on the web, it seems there's no real difference other than clock speed going on here [0]. What else is going on in the Nexus 7 that makes it a "good buy" relative to the Kindle HDX models now? Other than "I have already bought a lot of Android apps so I don't want to switch", what's the compelling reason to buy a Nexus tablet now? [1] http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-S4-Pro-%28APQ8064%29-vs-Qualcomm-Snapdragon-800 http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-S4-Pro-%28APQ806...

dcre 13y ago
This was just my experience, but after using stock Android on a phone and a tablet for about a year, I found the Kindle Fire HD basically unusable when I tried it out. I couldn't get it to do anything I wanted. It felt like a thoroughly crippled OS to me. You can only use Amazon's tiny app store (you can get around this but it's not very secure). And as other commenters have pointed out, the Nexus 7 seems thinner too.