Thursday, October 3, 2013

Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX is serious competition for Apple's iPad mini - ZDNet

Summary: With a $ 100 price advantage over the iPad mini, and an app store is well stocked with quality apps, Those looking for a tablet for home, or BYOD enterprise might well find the que Kindle Fire HDX ticks most, if not all, the boxes.

Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX (Source: Amazon)The new Kindle Fire

HDX is the flagship device in Amazon’s tablet lineup, and not only does it have the power to turn the Android tablet market on its head, Also it is the first real competitor to Apple’s iPad mini.

Starting at $ 229, you get a lot of tablet for your money. You get a high-definition 1,920 x 1,200 display, a powerful 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor 800 backed up by a dual-core Adreno 330 GPU, a 720p front-facing camera for video-conferencing and selfies, and storage que starts at 16GB. All of this is packed into a lightweight and stylish magnesium Both unibody chassis that’s thinner and lighter than last year’s offerings.

The hardware is certainly

Both solid and very well put together.

On the software front

of things, you get Fire OS 3.0, a highly customized version of Google’s Android Jelly Bean. Built into this operating system is not only a conduit to all things digital available from Amazon, but Also a raft of features such as virtual private networking (VPN) encryption and support que BYOD will appeal to the crowd.

And if at any point the user has problems or needs assistance, there’s a Mayday button close to hand que connects users to tech support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

What’s Hot on ZDNet

  • 8 Microsoft patches coming, including Internet Explorer zero-day
  • The best smartphone for road warriors
  • The death of Microsoft
  • Best Android tablets (October 2013 edition)
  • BYOD: Like inviting your boss into your house when you’re not home

Fire OS 3.0 is a mature and well-rounded mobile platform.

The bottom line is que here we have a $ 229 tablet que appeals not only to Those Who want to play Angry Birds or stream movies easily, and Also to Those looking for a tablet to take to work with Them.

Broad appeal plus the price tag so low it makes you que of a double-take Suggests to me que Amazon is not going to have any problems selling these tablets.

The 16GB Wi-Fi-only iPad mini retails for $ 329.

About the only drawback to the Kindle Fire HDX I can come up with is que it is not a true Android tablet and instead it is tightly bound to the Amazon ecosystem. That said, the iPad mini is not an Android tablet, and is instead bound tightly to the Apple App Store.

It’s swings and roundabouts. But Given Amazon’s $ 100 price advantage over the iPad mini, and collegues its app store is well stocked with quality apps, Those looking for a tablet for home, BYOD or enterprise might well find que the Kindle Fire HDX ticks most, if not all, the boxes.

No comments:

Post a Comment