I also found it slower to operate than a ‘plain’ Android tablet. It’s app-discovery-tastic, but if you want a tablet that’ll just let you get on with the business of actually using it, the Amazon Fire HD 10 might get on your nerves. The rest is really about pointing you towards more stuff from these various places that you might like. However, now it sells pretty much everything digital, including music, audiobooks, ebooks, apps, video… and let’s not forget the Amazon Prime Instant Video Netflix-a-like service.įire OS is a set of horizontally-scrolling home-screens, but only one is dedicated to the stuff you own. It’s quite different to normal Android and iOS in that an awful lot of its interface space is taken up by content from the many Amazon silos rather than apps you’ve already downloaded.Īmazon was once a website where you’d buy stuff, and it’d get delivered. The Amazon Fire HD 10 runs Fire OS, the custom Amazon version of Android. It’s not dated in all areas, but that makes the ultra-low resolution even more head-scratching. It also uses an up-to-date screen lamination technique, meaning that the image looks like it’s right on the surface rather than recessed. It’s an IPS LCD screen like the iPad’s, and looks alright from any angle. The Amazon Fire HD 10 display isn’t terrible in all respects, though. To really bring it home, consider that the 5.5in Sony Xperia Z5 Premium screen has 8,294,400 pixels.
And yes, that’s down to the tablet, not us.
KINDLE PREVIEWER FIRE HD 10 MOVIE
Remember how I was comparing the Amazon Fire HD 10 design to tablets of 2011? This is the resolution we got back then too.įeed the tablet a well-encoded 720p movie and it’ll still look sweet, but read articles on it and the text looks a bit crude. It’s dead blocky, to the extent that any other good elements of image quality are completely overshadowed by this naff pixel density. So stretched you can see between the pixels. Spreading 1280 x 800 pixels across 10.1 inches in 2015 is like stretching pizza dough so thin you can see through it.
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