![]() The recessed buttons are hard to find with your finger, easy to confuse with one another as you rotate the tablet around, and feel like a cheap TV remote. In an effort to keep the front and sides unadorned, Amazon placed the volume and power buttons on the sharply beveled back, which doesn’t work at all. Unfortunately, that’s where my love affair with the new HDX hardware ends. And with no big, mismatched bezels like the Nexus 7, the screen even looks a little bigger and brighter. It's as spectacularly reflective as any other tablet, no matter what Amazon might want to tell you, but it’s a massive upgrade over last year’s model, and puts the HDX right on par with the Nexus 7. That all starts with the 7-inch screen, a gorgeous 1920 x 1200 panel with excellent viewing angles, amazing color reproduction, and that wonderful feeling that whatever’s on the screen is leaping out toward you. Best of all though, you can add stickers and even create a meme from your photo.The HDX is less of a device and more of a portal, so the more the hardware gets out of the way and lets Amazon’s software and content shine, the better. You can crop, add filters and adjust colour saturation. What is new is the native camera app which comes with a surprising amount of editing tools you can have fun with. ![]() Images typically look grainy, lack vibrancy and it’s clear the camera is designed with video calling in mind. There’s also a camera roll to review photos. The camera UI is on the basic side letting you choose whether to shoot video or take pictures and adjust the focus point. We don’t really have any complaints about that, but it’s worth noting the Nexus 7 2 does include rear and front-facing cameras. While the 8.9-inch HDX tablet gets two cameras, Amazon opts for just the front-facing 720p HD camera for its 7-inches tablet. There’s is a 1-TapĪrchive option to free up storage space by archiving items that have notīeen recently used which does help to manage onboard storage. Will need to rely on Amazon’s cloud storage if you are planning toĬonsume a lot of your own content. In terms of storage it’s worth noting that if you goįor the 16GB model you actually get around 11GB you can use, so you We’ve played with by a mile and are miles better than the speakers on the iPad mini 2 and Nexus 7. The higher volumes, but these are the best sounding speakers on a tablet The Kindle Fire HDX features dual stereo speakers which perform brilliantly both in terms of richness and directional sound. You don’t want tinny sound you can hardly make out. If you use a tablet to watch videos or listen to music ![]() Something tablet manufacturers often overlook is It runs games like Real Racing 3 and Dead Trigger with ease and handles streaming apps like Netflix and YouTube consummately. Jumping around the UI and opening apps is quick and smooth. Overall, it’s a slick experience and a massive improvement on the last Kindle Fire. It’s almost identical specs to the Sony Xperia Ultra and the Galaxy Note 10.1, but at a fraction of the cost. ![]() It’s a lot faster than the Nexus 7 ’s Snapdragon S4Pro CPU which runs at 1.5GHz, with Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB of RAM. The Adreno 330 GPU also aims to take care of more graphically demanding gaming. Amazon Kindle Fire HDX: Performance The Kindle Fire HDX runs on a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.2GHZ with 2GB of RAM to help things run smooth when you are running multiple apps at once. ![]()
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