The Amazing Amazon Kindle Fire

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Kindle review

The Amazon Kindle Fire represents astonishingly sensible worth for money; maybe the best tablet bargain of this era.

This is the primary Kindle to boast a colour screen, a holy grail to some users of the device, and with a 7-inch, 1024x600 show it falls at the smaller finish of the tablet sphere.

The glossy jet-black device, just like the PlayBook, along with the same soft and cozy rubberised, matte casing around the back and edges. At 0.45 inches, it's slightly thicker than the PlayBook (0.4-inches), however will have a thinner bezel.

Kindle fans are pleased to know that intrinsically, this still feels like an Amazon Kindle device instead of a tablet computer. At 431g, it is softer to hold in one hand than the iPad.

One of the most positively surprising aspects of the Kindle Fire is the 7-inch, 1024x600 IPS LCD screen, that once more boasts constant spec sheet as the BlackBerry PlayBook.

It responded well to the deftest of pushes and prods, while double-tapping and pinching to zoom were efficient. Typing is always getting to be more difficult on a 7-inch screen, however the keyboard is nicely spaced in landscape mode and we found mistakes were minimal.

iOS devices are clearly the standard-setters in this department, however we're pleased with Amazon's answer.

The company has unquestionably succeeded in doing what it embarked on to; to produce a superb media consumption device that does not break the bank. it is a solid tablet perfectly tailored to its aim of pushing you to shop for digital content from Amazon.

It isn't an all-singing, all-dancing device that ticks all the boxes, neither will it conceive to be. It's is a pleasant device to use and defies its worth purpose in almost all areas.