Kindle Fire Review

The Amazon’s new Kindle Fire is giving a tough competition to the iPad. This 7-inch tablet is offering a bundle of things within a small pack that people have become interested in it. Just like iTunes, through this Android based Kindle Fire you can easily access unlimited books, magazines, videos, music and apps using a single account.

The best thing about the Kindle Fire is its integration with the Amazon. You can easily acquire any kind of content through its seamless interface either for the ownership or streaming or rental of movies and TV shows.

Let us check the device step-by-step to see where it hits and what it misses?

-          Design interface

When compared with other tabs of its range, the Kindle was found to have the best quality. It is 0.91 pound tablet measuring 7.5 by 4.7 by 0.45 inches. You get a good rip at back due to its soft-touch finish which includes the kindle logo nicely imprinted on the chassis.

The bottom of the Kindle includes a power button with its MicroUSB port and a headphone jack. At the top of the Fire, there are two speakers. Volume controls are all in the software.

When you unlock the Kindle you come across the home screen with search button at the top, tabs for books, magazines, Newsstand, etc. and at the bottom of the home screen there is Favorites shelf with Amazon’s App store, Facebook App Icon, the IMDb App and the Pulse Reader App already pinned there. At the extreme top you will name of your device, the time, the battery status and the Wi-Fi status.

-          Display

This budget tablet offers a 7-inch display screen of 1024 x 600 pixels using an IPS (in-plane switching) technology for wide viewing angles and makes sharing easy. It also gives crisp looks when viewing websites. You can also read through kindle during sunlight. This vibrant color touchscreen gives 16 million colors in high resolution.  With just a single touch read, write, watch or browse.

-          Apps

The Amazon App store is your sole apps source for your kindle Fire. Sometimes this limits your choice. More than 5000+ apps were launched by Amazon for the Kindle.  Most of the common apps included are Hulu Plus, ESPN Score Centre, Twitter, Facebook, Rhapsody, Pandora, Netflix, etc. Games like Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, Fruit Ninja, etc are included in the Kindle Appstore.  When it comes to music store Amazon is in competition with iTunes. Moreover the e-book store of Amazon is the most popular. And their Newsstand allows you to access more than 400 colored magazines and newspapers.

-          Software

The Amazon Kindle Fire is based upon Android 2.3 but making it unique in itself. The carousel-like interface of the home screen allows last accessed thing to be in the front. Flip accordingly and open whatever app you like. You can easily add stuff to your favorites by just long pressing on the content and tap add to favorites. The Kindle does not include any physical home button, everything is software based and thus home button is on the left bottom of the display while other buttons like back, menu and search are on the right.

-          Content purchase and clouding

Using a single account you can buy all kind of stuff on your Kindle. Your credentials are pre-loaded on your Kindle so you can directly start shopping for your favorite magazines, music, TV shows, books and apps, etc. For streaming you can store your content into the Cloud and even you can download that later.

-          Performance

The Kindle includes a dual-core 1 GHz TI OMAP 4 processor with 512 MB of RAM. It offers a memory space of 8 GB but it is not expandable. The Amazon claims for the 8 hour battery backup for the Kindle Fire.

The Pros offered by the Amazon Kindle Fire are:

• Compact design.
• Easy to operate interface.
• Powerful speakers.
• Access to a huge amount of stuff.
• Free books and videos on Amazon store.

The cons associated with Kindle Fire are:

• Lack dedicated volume buttons.
• Non-expandable memory,
• Scrimp parental controls.

Bottom line—

Within a price range of $199 the Amazon Kindle Fire is the amazing deal. It is a hot bundled package. You easily get access over Amazon’s books, magazines, music, videos and lots more.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Review

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Samsung Galaxy Tab Review Summary Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab is like a smaller version of laptops. It scores over iPad. It is lighter and comparatively smaller than iPad enabling it to be portable. It is not a clone of iPad. Excellent form factor at 7″ size, FLASH Support, Attractive unique design, 3G video calls, Two cameras, Responsive screen No AMOLED display panel, Average battery life Samsung Galaxy Tab Photo Gallery

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Samsung Galaxy Tab: The Display

Samsung Galaxy Tab looks stylish and compact. The tablet has been designed uniquely where the front color is in sync with the side panels. The curvy corner of Galaxy Tab makes it even more enticing. 190.1*120.5*12mm and weighs 380g. It has a plastic body which pulls down its weight and gives it an elegant look. Galaxy Tab has a TFT capacitive touchscreen flaunting 16 million colors and offering a resolution of 600*1024 pixels. The major highlight of the display is undoubtedly the touchscreen measuring 7 inches. The other prominent highlights of the display include Swype-text input, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate, multi-touch input method, proximity sensor for auto turn off, touch sensitive controls and three axis gyro sensor.

Samsung Galaxy Tab: The Operating System

Samsung Galaxy Tab runs on the latest version of the Android, known as Froyo. The updated version of the operating system enables the users to enjoy several features and applications being the most functional and user-friendly operating system.

Samsung Galaxy Tab: Network and Connectivity

Since Samsung Galaxy Tab is nothing short of a tablet PC, the connectivity options got to be top class. Galaxy Tab is supportive of both 2G and 3G network connectivity. The 2G network users get the support of the quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900, while the 3G network users are assisted by HSDPA 900/1900/2100. For ensuring an enhanced process of high speed connectivity, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps facilitate the process. For enabling the process of data connectivity to or from other compatible devices, it can be done using USB and Bluetooth facilities.

Samsung Galaxy Tab: Multimedia

The multimedia features of Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab are quite appealing. Tablet has a 3.15 megapixel camera that comes with auto focus LED Flash offering a resolution of 2048*1536 pixels. The other feature is geo-tagging. The camera is enabled with the power to shoot videos with 720*480@30fps. Galaxy Tab has also a 1.3 megapixel secondary camera for video calling. It has high-end media players capable of playing diverse files. However, there is no FM Radio.

The Galaxy is about the size of those larger paperbacks, and can be loaded with the reading of e-books. Android’s OS makes it easy to access system brightness, a must for people who read at night.

Samsung Galaxy Tab Key features:

• 2G Network- GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• 3G Network- HSDPA 900/1900/2100
• Powered with latest version of Android, Froyo.
• 7.0″ S TFT capacitive touchscreen
• Measures 190.1*120.5*12mm
• Weighs 380g
• Swype-text input
• Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
• Multi-touch input method
• Proximity sensor for auto turn off
• Touch sensitive controls
• Three axis gyro sensor
• 3.5mm audio jack
• 3.15 Megapixel camera with LED Flash, auto focus, geo-tagging
• Video recording 720*480@ 30fps
• 1.3 megapixel secondary camera
• No FM Radio
• 16/32 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
• MicroSD card slot, memory expandable up to 32 GB

Samsung Galaxy Tab Review Conclusion
Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab has created a buzz in the tablet world with its high level performance and efficiency. However it fall short of the quality and features on the Apple iPad

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Here it is folks, the Apple iPad. The iPad is already launched On April 3. The screen is gorgeous, tilting is responsive, and the thing is super thin. Still, if you’ve used the iPhone before — and you can see the two devices side-by-side here — there’s not a lot of surprises here so far. Here are some initial thoughts on the iPad:

• It’s not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand.
• The screen is stunning, and it’s 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands.
• The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.
• There’s no multitasking at all. It’s a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you’re working in Pages… you can figure it out. It’s a real setback for this device.
• The ebook implementation is about as close as you can get to reading without a stack of bound paper in your hand. The visual stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here.
• No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn’t have an SMS app!
• It’s running iPhone OS 3.2.
• The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos.
• No Flash confirmed.