Amazon Kindle Fire tablet – closer look

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The Amazon Kindle announcement gave some interesting details about the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire will feature a 7″ 1024 x 600 resolution Gorilla glass screen and run on a Texas Instruments OMAP 1GHz dual-core processor, supported by 512MB RAM. The Kindle Fire features 8GB of innerliche storage for all those books, apps and media files, and will carry a ambient light Sensor to help with night-time reading. The neue Amazon Kindle Fire will be 11.4mm thick and will weigh 414g.

A few software features are worth mentioning. The main UI is in the form of a carousel of all your content. Early video footage of the Kindle shows the carousel scrolling smooth along, not surprising with all that processor power working in the background. The underlying Android system is buried under Amazon‘s UI. At present it seems that files will be ordered according to ‘date last accessed’, with the most recently accessed on top of the pile. Favorite content can be placed on a ‘shelf’ under the carousel, and Section headings above the carousel allow users to filter which content is shown. Right at the top is a search box, which searches either locally, on Amazon, or on the Net.

Whether users will be able to manage folders to make accessing apps and other media easier is still unclear. Android‘s familiar notifications board is also there, as well as music playback controls, WiFi settings, brightness controls, orientation settings and so on. Kindle’s Whispersync feature is also present, for syncing eBook reading progress across Kindle device, and of course, there are the usual features – bookmarks, notes, and underlining. You will also be able to view movies on the Kindle Fire, and once again bookamarks enable users to sync with PCs and other devices.

Amazon Silk makes an appearance; a semi-local, semi-Cloud-based browser that will enable users to manage photos, videos, Flash elements and so on through a single connection to the cloud and a unified interface. Silk also backs your data up automatically. Here is Amazon Silk in this detailed video:

Here is the Amazon Silk browser hands on:

All in all, the Kindle Fire is more similar to Barnes and Noble’s NOOK Color than to other Android tablets, so the upcoming Nook Color 2 will be in direct competition with the Kindle Fire. Amazon’s Kindle Fire – available from November 15 – will be a hard act to follow.

Via netbooknews

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