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Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD is hot. But the real question isn’t whether you’re going to go for the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD, which seems destined to stay stateside for now anyway—It’s whether consumers will go after the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD or Google’s rad Nexus 7. Which sick £159 Android tablet would you buy?
I’d buy a 8.9″ Fire HD and then hope someone hacks Android onto it. But I already have a Touchpad with ICS on it so I won’t be buying anything extra anyway. Although I haven’t used a 7″ tablet device anyway, I don’t really find that form factor particularly compelling.
It would be the Nexus device every time. Although the specs are better on the Fire, I would soon get extremely annoyed by the locked in services Amazon offer. Yes, I could root and put a custom ROM on but sometimes it’s nice to just have a device that I can do what I want and receive timely updates from an official source.
Nope the Nexus 7 still has a faster CPU and GPU than the OMAP4470.
I already have an N7 but would consider the Kindle on impulse more readily in future. The features on the kindle HD for the price would be a better investment in the long run. I have to admit that I miss HDMI out on the N7, would have been really handy on several occasions.
Neither.
I own a nexus 7 for a while now, cant complain for too many things but ones i complain about are bad enough! video codec issues is pissing me off with nvidia chips now second time after tegra2 and storage limit being the biggest along with external connectivity with usb/hdmi. i would consider getting 32gb for storage reasons esp for 199 nice spot… although u can now get a rk3066 based sumvision titan for 169 quid which is a great piece of art at with ipad2 shape/speed/extra storage/connectivity etc pretty good specs… so undecided between kindle/titan now
I would buy neither because I’m happy with my iPad (3rd gen)
However if I had to choose I would still pick the Nexus 7 because I know and trust Google to keep heavily supporting the tablet bringing the latest and greatest in software developments to it which cannot be said for Amazon as the original fire is still running Android 2.3.3 I believe.
Also I read that all the Amazon tablets are going to be ad subsidized whether you like it or not you will be forced to look at ads which brings me to the last point of you could then root and install a clean amazon free version but then you would miss out on the good services amazon provides in terms of media content- books, movies and music. So the Nexus 7 would be a better deal in my book because even if someone manages to block the ads or a cyanogen mod comes out amazon will no doubt fix whatever enables that as it did with the original Fire and much like Apple would with jail breaking.
Wow, here’s a tricky question. If forced to choose between a tablet they can buy and one they can’t I suspect there will be only one winner, it’s nexus 10 all the way. I
I’d go for the 64gb iGalaxy iNexus Fire Transformer
Let’s see…N7 has better specs, better OS, more CPU grunt, more uses, better everything and can run Amazon’s kindle app as well. In fact these are some of the reasons why I bought a N7.
But the Kindle Fire HD has custom Dolby audio, more powerful wifi, AND the option to pay for an additional Lovefilm subscription for media streaming!
“Custom Dolby Audio” means very little to me, especially when I’m using a crappy £10 pair of headphones to use my tablet.
I’ve not yet had an issue with the wifi reception or speed to need an upgrade and I already have a Lovefilm subscription.
The only thing that makes it potentially more appealing to me than the Nexus 7 (which I do already own) is the Lovefilm streaming. Any news of this coming to Android tablets a la the Kindle Fire or iPad would be nice. Without the 8.9 version in the UK I really can’t see too much really significant difference though so the Nexus wins