I have the original iPad (twas free!), which I've really loved, but the cost is significant compared to the newer 7" tablets. I use the 3g a ton, but suppose I could fix that with a personal cellular wifi solution.
But, being a Kindle (e-ink) user since inception, I've always felt that if it were my dollars talking, I'd go with the Fire. I can't justify the cost of the iPad, but could with the Fire.
Anyone who's really in the market look over the specs and have an opinion re: google vs. amazon in the small tablet market?
How great is it that these three tech giants are all making desirable media toys? Being a fan and heavy user of all three company's products, I'm happy to see them each working to innovate something more exciting than a browser war.
As an avid Android guy, I have to admit that ONE thing Apple got right was the aspect ratio on the iPad. Even though I have the TF101, it's way more convenient to use the iPad in both portrait and landscape as compared to the Android tablets.
And of all the things, I'd thought Amazon would be in on this. What with their Kindles being 4:3 already.
If there were a "Trade your Kindle Fire" button on that page I would click it in a second. I like my Kindle Fire but it has issues. I'd kill for just a hardware volume control. It's hard to say without handling one, but my guess is to choose the Nexus over the Fire.
Thanks for that. I had no idea the Fire lacked a hard volume button. I almost compulsively use the one on my iPad, as I find quantified increments far easier than sliding my fat finger over something my fat finger is blocking.
Not only that, but the soft volume controls aren't uniformly available. When you're watching a movie in Netflix, you have to stop the playback to adjust volume, but you can't hear the volume until you start playback again. Just painful.
Note: this experience may have been fixed, I haven't used my kindle fire for watching movies in months, for obvious reasons.
Its been fixed upstream by Netflix.... but why didn't you just change the firmware on your Fire to ICS like I did? Standardized soft vol avail everywhere.
I have the original iPad (twas free!), which I've really loved, but the cost is significant compared to the newer 7" tablets. I use the 3g a ton, but suppose I could fix that with a personal cellular wifi solution.
But, being a Kindle (e-ink) user since inception, I've always felt that if it were my dollars talking, I'd go with the Fire. I can't justify the cost of the iPad, but could with the Fire.
Anyone who's really in the market look over the specs and have an opinion re: google vs. amazon in the small tablet market?
How great is it that these three tech giants are all making desirable media toys? Being a fan and heavy user of all three company's products, I'm happy to see them each working to innovate something more exciting than a browser war.