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Kindle Fire teardown: No-frills tablet filled with TI hardware

So far I like it, all my books are there, disappointed with the app selection on the amazon store, but with a few tweaks from the apps from my phone, backup on phone, restore to kindle fire, and all my apps are both places.

honestly only disappointment is wifi only
content is fast, amazon cloud option is very nice, download a movie, get on the plane, watch movie instead of taking out my laptop.

Let's overlook the desirability of being able to replace the back piece of plastic with a customized one. (Anybody ever hear of "decals"?) My concern is this: " . . .playing Amazon content, running Amazon-approved apps, and helping you purchase merchandise from Amazon . . .". Restricted to one vendor, restricted to one proxy provider, restricted in which applications you can use. It's almost as if they want to corner the market, a la "monopoly". Who needs it when other, as good as or better, devices exist which do not lock you in to one marketplace.

Kinda like the iPad?

After much excitement and anticipation, I purchased the Kindle Fire last week only to find that the App Store is not available in South Africa where I live. This important issue should have been made clear during purchase, as I'm now sitting with what is basically an overpriced e-reader. What's frustrating is that the device shows so much potential, but what's the point of an Android device without any apps?

dissemble /d'smb()l/
verb [NO OBJ. ] conceal or disguise one's true feelings or beliefs: an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble.
[WITH OBJ. ] disguise or conceal (a feeling or intention): she smiled, dissembling her true emotion.
[Oxford Dictionary of English]

I think the word you're looking for is disassemble?

If only they had included 3G!

However, with my 2 previous Kindles, for my purposes I wanted access to lots of books without having a mule around to carry all them with me. I have a smart phone for most of the things that would clog up the Fire, and with such little free time, I love the Kindle's simplicity but with the other options included - i.e. Share passages with Facebook or Twitter, highlight and take notes which are indexed, and not having to remember where I left my flashlight if I want to read in bed.

I'm also liking the Newsstand since carrying around magazines has never been something I do.

There are a few minor quirks I've yet to figure out - like where to touch the screen to be able to go back to Home. At one point, the Silk browser kept crashing - but only on non-Amazon websites....hhmmmmm....
I found Netflix in the app store, and I'm Prime Member (since 1999 [I hate to shop]) so I can stream Amazon's video content free. The image qualities are way more than I expected. The images are gorgeous.

Now I won't hesitate so much anymore about purchasing a photography e-book instead of the hard copy.

If only they'd included wi-fi!