Kindle Fire hasn’t exactly changed the landscape of digital notepads, nor has it appreciably challenged the iPad in this domain, but for the price tag of $200 it’s hard not to at least consider the device. Looking closer, it’s easy to see where that extra money didn’t go. The technical differences between the Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad are stark: Fire is significantly cheaper, $200 vs. the iPad’s $500-$830 price tag; the Fire offers 8 GB of storage vs. iPad’s 16-64 GB; the Fire has a smaller screen size and weighs less; it runs on Android software (which could impact your home networking capabilities if your other PCs run on iOS); and Apple has 50 times more apps and two cameras, compared to Kindles zero.

But we all knew the iPad is better, it’s just a matter of how much better, and whether the Fire’s many mitigating factors completely undermine its affordability. To be sure, it’s not all bad news for Kindle fanatics. The Fire is a substantial upgrade on the franchise. It’s size makes it more portable than other notepads and the device offers full-color for viewing magazines and comics, as opposed to the monochrome text-only format of the original. Speaking of comics, users will now have cool options like accessing comics from the Comixology app instead of directly from Amazon. Fire also allows Hulu and Netflix streaming, making it a much better option for mobile video streams than previous Kindle products. The problem is, this is about the extent of any advantage over iPad, and none of these factors are truly advantages.
The reality is that, yes, Kindle Fire offers a color screen, but it also drains your battery through a straw. And, yes, you can stream video and store Amazon content for free, but if you want to download movies onto your notepad, you’re not going to get a dozen deep before you pretty much run completely out of storage. The cheapest iPad offers double the storage space, which might not justify spending the extra $300 if you weren’t provided with a memory slot for additional storage cards. Fire doesn’t offer this. Nor does it offer cellular network use or third party books (anything not sold by Amazon).
For these reasons, it’s a bit up in the air as to whether Kindle Fire’s affordability make it a better option. Some might argue it’s worth spending the extra money for a more worthwhile mobile device. You don’t necessarily have to jump straight up to the iPad. Some e-book readers are preferring the Nook tablet, which though it’s lacking in the app department, has twice the memory and storage of the Fire for only $50 more. Do more research to find out what works best for you.

Bring on the heat! The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet just redefined what it means to be the hottest new gadget around. This 7-inch e-book reader-slash-tablet is a far cry from the original Kindle. For starters, as compared to the previous Kindle’s monochromatic E Ink Pearl Display, Kindle Fire features a 1024 x 600 colored multi-touch screen sporting 16 million colors, anti-reflective coating, and In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology for a more vibrant display and wider viewing angle. Its screen is no Gorilla but it’s chemically hardened to be 20 times more rigid and 30 times harder than conventional plastic for added durability and scratch resistance. Furthermore, the latest Amazon Kindle is no longer just limited to reading e-books and other electronic fine prints. Like all modern tablets, it can also play video and audio files, run games and other applications, surf the web, process and port emails, and stream popular movies and TV shows.
Amazon Kindle Fire is a complete information and entertainment hub powered simply by touch.
Its simple interface allows user to view, listen, and explore their favorite digital content with relative ease. From its home page, one can subscribe, buy, and access full-colored interactive magazines such as Vanity Fair, Wired, and GQ, over 100,000 movies and commercial-free TV shows, 17 million songs, and Kindle tested applications and games – all from a single store: Amazon. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg; Bibliophile would surely love Amazon Kindle’s selection of over 1 million e-books and more than 1000 fully illustrated children’s book for sale, and over 2 million more pre-1923 books for free.
Kindle Fire also comes with other freebies like free cloud storage courtesy of Amazon Cloud, a month’s subscription of Amazon Prime, and Amazon’s new revolutionary cloud-accelerated browser – Amazon Silk. This exclusive browser, backed by Amazon Web Services and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, boasts powerful back end computing, persistent connection, page indexing, machine learning, and faster loading times.
Kindle Fire loses out to the earlier Kindle models only in terms of battery life, the latter can last up to three weeks and even up to two months while the former, with its high resolution colored multi-touchscreen, can only sustain continuous reading for up to 8 hours and movie playback up to 7.5 hours. That aside, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is probably one of the most promising tablets out there that can easily stand on its own in a sea of branded eBooks readers, tablet PCs, and iPad wannabes.
They say there are many ways to travel and explore the world. And one of the best ways to see the world is to travel, learn, and be entertained without literally getting on a bus, boat or a plane. All you need is a good reliable e-book reader for you to experience that express trip limited only by imagination. The new Energy Multimedia Color Book is one of the perfect medium to take you around the world without having to leave your favorite reading chair.



