Amazon kindle fire new8/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The new Fire uses the same CPU as 2012's, but we aren't sure which GPU is in use here. The 2012 Fire HD 7 could not complete the test. While not as fast as the HDX, navigation performance is much improved over last year, with menus loading almost instantly and that feeling of sluggishness having been mostly wiped away.ġ.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 ProģDMark is now available for Kindle Fire tablets and, judging from the scores, we can be fairly certain that the 2013 Fire HD has even faster gaming performance than the 2012 Fire HD 8.9. The 2013 Fire HD is a different beast altogether. My biggest issue with the 2012 Kindle Fire HD 7's performance was that it seemed to chug under the weight of its own OS there was a palpable delay to pretty much everything. It still has a slightly yellowish tint like the HDX's, though. The screen resolution is 1,280x800 pixels and isn't nearly as sharp as the Fire HDX's screen, but is still pretty sharp and bright in its own right. Clouding on the Fire HD 2013 is much less severe and can only be seen in the corners when the screen displays a dark image - like during startup. The Kindle Fire HD (2012) had a bright vibrant screen, but backlight bleeding or "clouding" was apparent when looking at a black or dark image. There's just something comforting about having all your content automatically organized for you. When I tap Audiobooks, I know I'm seeing all the audiobooks I own and by tapping Store I can easily add more. Instead of pages and pages of app icons as in other OSes, on the Fire each type of content is siloed into its respective section. What I've always liked about the Kindle Fire interface is how the content is organized. Samsung's shortcut array behaves in much the same way as Amazon's, but also scrolls to the left to include more options and can even be customized to add more choices. Samsung does this with great success in its latest version of the TouchWiz UI, last seen on the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition. While the vast majority of the changes work, there's also a missed opportunity here to add more customization. Managing your storage is now a lot easier, as items can be located by type and each deleted on the fly. The Calendar includes a number of sensible improvements that for the most part make the interface a more efficient and gratifying experience. E-mail has been redesigned to require fewer steps to set up and is now compatible with threaded conversations, so instead of seeing a single e-mail from each person in the conversation, you now see a message from the last person to contribute to the thread. It simply works with few issues, which, compared with previous Fire tablets, I guess maybe is pretty special.Īmazon also cast a critical eye toward other native apps like e-mail and calendar as well as adding a new contacts app. I'm probably a bit overly excited about just how trouble-free the Web experience was, but there's really nothing special about it. ![]()
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