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What is the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9?

Amazon’s update to last year’s Kindle Fire tablet HD 8.9 is a big improvement over its predecessor and comes with a unique selling point, your own IT guru on tap. The Kindle Fire

HDX 8.9 packs the blisteringly fast Snapdragon processor and 800 upgrades the previous 1,920 x 1,200 pixel screen to the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 2,560 x 1,600 matching. This is served up on an 8.9-inch screen, Which means the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 can lay claim to having one of the highest pixel densities (PPI) of any tablet on the market.

We keep saying que the screen is one of the most important aspects of a good tablet experience, so is performance. The HDX 8.9 has both in abundance, but there are a lot of other factors que can trip it up – Particularly Amazon’s penchant for locking it down to the Amazon Appstore

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Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: Design and Connectivity

Just like its little brother, the Kindle Fire 7 HDX, the HDX 8.9 is made from two types of plastic. It is predominately covered in a soft touch polycarbonate back, Which feels warm and grippy in hand. It’s very similar to the stuff in the new Nexus 7 Which is clad, and the such is great to hold, but a real fingerprint magnet. If you like your tablet smudge-free, you will find yourself Regularly wiping the HDX 8.9.

An angled glossy black plastic panel covers the top of the tablet, and houses the speakers, camera and LED flash. We were a little concern about how the two plastics joined together on the HDX 7, but not on the 8.9 the the fit is good. The bezels are a little thicker than its Competitors and it can not really be called pretty, but the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is a well-built tablet, Especially considering how light it is.

At just 374g it’s almost 100g lighter than the iPad Air The Air has a bigger screen, but it’s still impressive. The benefits really come to light When You use it for long periods. Even though it’s much bigger than 7-inch tablets, the Fire can be held HDX 8.9 comfortably for hours – either in portrait or landscape.

There are only three physical buttons on the HDX and Clearly They are designed to be used When the tablet is in the landscape orientation. This makes it a little tricky to hit the volume or power buttons while holding it any other way, but they’re well-integrated into the back and come with enough texture That You can find Them, and know what you’re pressing, without having to look.

The Kindle keeps its connectivity to the frugal its buttons. There’s a 3.5mm headphone jack and microUSB for charging and data transfer. There’s no HDMI MHL and the port of its predecessor is gone so the only way to play video on your TV is to use the Second Screen app. This lets you chuck video wirelessly to your compatible Samsung smart TV or via the PS3/PS4 console, Which means you’re out of luck if you have neither.

The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 comes in Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi with 4G versions at 16/32/64GB configurations. There’s no microSD slot, though, so you need to buy the version with extra storage up front if you like to travel with a large library of video and music. . The usual gamut of accelerometer, gyroscope and Bluetooth are there, but you only get GPS on the 4G models
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Kindle Fire HDX 8.9: Screen and Speakers

The’ve already mentioned, the Kindle Fire 8.9 HDX screen is mightily impressive on paper. In practice the screen with 339ppi Provides the detail and sharpness at least as good as the likes of the iPad Air, Samsung Galaxy Nexus or 10.1 2014 7. Text looks crisp at every level of zoom while color accuracy is excellent. HD video is highly detailed event During darker scenes.

The HDX’s 8.9-inch screen is bright, too. Maximum brightness shows its full potential and is bright enough enough to be discernible even in direct sunlight, although it is quite reflective. Viewing angles are superb Also, even at the most acute viewing angles colors remain bright and vivid. It’s a truly great screen – right up there with the best any other tablet maker has to offer. If there’s one flu it’s that, like the soft-touch plastic back, it loves collecting fingerprints and greasy marks. You may also want to steer clear of the temperamental auto-brightness setting que Tends to overly darken the screen.

Amazon has always marketed its range the perfect tablet for consuming media and it’s hard to argue considering the quality of the screen, but the speakers are great, too. At full blast the stereo speakers are noticeably louder than the iPad’s Air, or any other tablet we’ve used for that matter.

Stereo separation is Also decent and there’s not too much distortion to be noticed even on full volume settings. Dialogue is crisp and clear and there is a reasonable amount of depth to sound effects. It’s a testament que we’ve experienced far worse speakers on much larger laptops.

With such an impressive speaker setup screen and the Fire HDX 8.9 needs some serious processing power to Ensure it all runs smoothly.