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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 10:17:30 GMT -5
Not an iPad killer per-se but definitely worth a look at the $199 price tag... I've pre-ordered one, if reviews come back bad I'll probably cancel beforehand but it's definitely the tablet I've been waiting for
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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 10:18:18 GMT -5
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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 10:19:05 GMT -5
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Post by Jordan on Sept 29, 2011 10:32:24 GMT -5
weird
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Post by Haberino on Sept 29, 2011 10:48:39 GMT -5
wish i had a kindle. ugh
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Post by MeanJoe on Sept 29, 2011 10:59:39 GMT -5
ughhhh... Bad start to the research: www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/amazons-kindle-fire-silk-browser-has-serious-security-concerns/1516"OK, here’s the good stuff about the new Silk Web browser, which Amazon will be embedding in its new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets: From all reports it makes Web-browsing amazing fast on relatively low-end hardware. The bad news? It does it by watching all, and I mean all, of your Web activity through Amazon’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services." " Amazon Silk’s terms and conditions state that Amazon will keep your the Web addresses you visit, the IP addresses you use, and your Kindle Fire’s unique media access control (MAC) addresses for 30 days. With that information, Amazon can track your every Web move." ATLEAST YOU HAVE THE OPTION TO DISABLE THIS FEATURE:
"If you’re concerned with online privacy, I simply wouldn’t use the Silk browser in its full mode. To Amazon’s credit, you can opt out of Silk’s cloud-enhanced mode. To quote Amazon, “You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or ‘off-cloud’ mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As such, it does not take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing services to speed-up web content delivery.”" |
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Post by MeanJoe on Sept 29, 2011 11:00:12 GMT -5
Looks pretty cool tho...
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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 11:09:23 GMT -5
that's nothing new... look up what Facebook does, lol.
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Post by MeanJoe on Sept 29, 2011 11:16:01 GMT -5
that's nothing new... look up what Facebook does, lol. Yea I know what facebook does. Just saying. |
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Post by aar on Sept 29, 2011 12:14:36 GMT -5
No HDMI out = No thank you
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Post by ashes on Sept 29, 2011 12:19:31 GMT -5
Only thing that looks intriguing about it is the price tag.
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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 12:31:16 GMT -5
No HDMI out = No thank you pretty dumb, Amazon Cloud. |
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Post by repole ಠ_ಠ on Sept 29, 2011 12:47:33 GMT -5
It appears that they're going to use a modified version of Android that won't allow you to access the Android Market, which is a pretty big deal. They're pretty much taking Google's open source work and stabbing them in the back with it.
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Post by Martinez on Sept 29, 2011 13:03:14 GMT -5
I think it will be good, Amazon just flat out murdered every other android tablet.
Why pay $500 for the (cheapest) Sony Tablet S? If you go too like for like with Apple then you lose, people just want iPads not tablets. But the touchpad fire sale showed there is a demand for cheap tablets its justif you're the same price as the iPad and offer nothing else so why would I pick it?
Amazon have the price down and will leverage their services on the tablet, the app's everyone knows from android will run on it as well.
I was talking to a friend yesterday that Amazon will most likely push the portability of a 7 inch tablet but I think people want a 10 inch and just leave it in the house as in some cases a computer replacement (using tablets as an internet portal, browser/e-mail/facebook) than take it anywhere.
The device itself, well it seems good I was surprised they went with a dual core chip I thought it would be weaker to reduce cost and increase battery and every site seems to say its snappy. With tablets is the internals don't really matter, the HP touchpad for instance destroys the iPad 1 in terms of pure components yet its horrendously unoptimised for the hardware and you pretty much have to run preware and remove half of HP's shit to get it to run as fast as the iPad 1.
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Post by aar on Sept 29, 2011 13:12:09 GMT -5
No HDMI out = No thank you pretty dumb, Amazon Cloud. What's that have to do with live streaming on your TV? |
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