10-25-2011, 04:18 PM | #1 |
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Fire vs. Vox
Hi! I am looking to an inexpensive tablet (200 dollars) ho have at least android market. SD card is a plus. I'm now between kindle fire and kobo vow. Could you tell me the pros and cons of each one? It'll be used for more than reading books (games, writing one or to notes, movies, etc.).
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10-25-2011, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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With the Fire there's no SD card slot and no access to the Android Market. You'll get the Amazon App store. The Fire is not available outside the United States.
With the Vox there's an SD card slot and no access to the Android Market. You'll get access to GetJar (http://www.getjar.com/) for apps. |
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10-25-2011, 04:44 PM | #3 |
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10-25-2011, 04:56 PM | #4 |
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didn't amazon said you could sideload android apps? And how about software? In your opinion, which one is better? And kindle fire will work ok if outside us (not talking about shipping)
thanks for all your replies, DD Last edited by DonalDuck; 10-25-2011 at 05:00 PM. |
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Amazon said that kindle fire could side load android apps. Is that true or not?
And on http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/19/k...ch-display-gi/ we can read (bold made by me): Quote:
And how about Nook color 2? Any change it'll be out until xmas? Thanks, DD Last edited by DonalDuck; 10-26-2011 at 09:44 AM. |
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10-26-2011, 10:20 AM | #6 |
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The Fire can download apps from Amazon's Appstore, not Google's Android Market.
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10-26-2011, 11:56 AM | #8 |
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10-26-2011, 12:02 PM | #9 |
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To be honest Kobo is selling a tablet thats half the speed with half the storage and half the onboard ram , without the cameras, without the gps, without the built in microphones,without the blutooth without the without the access to the google apps, and without acess to the android market. The HTC flyer for $69-99 more depending on where your buying it you get access to everything AND have a machine thats twice as good at every single thing the kobo vox does. IMHO its a nobrainer... wait a few more months and either buy the HTC flyer or save longer and get one of the newer better tablets. oh and there is a tablet optimized android 3.2 honneycomb update to the htc flyer thats in beta as i type (the rom has been leaked if your the adventurous type) |
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But at $200 what do you expect? If you want the latest processor get a higher end tablet. You really can't expect these companies to go tow-to-tow with Amazon when Amazon is losing money on each tablet sold (so the BOM says). |
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Also the nook Touch and the kindle touch and the kindle keyboard. Guess what they are still selling. =X= |
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10-26-2011, 02:30 PM | #13 |
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Not so sure about that, my NookColor with CM7 struggles badly on movies from websites, like ctv.ca (flash) - to the point that it's not watchable. Sideloaded movies are OK though.
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10-26-2011, 03:34 PM | #15 |
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Currently best buy sell them for $299 but every week individual stores have sale one items in thier weekly ad's .. our Eau claire store had it a month back for $269 and the Lacrosse store (both are the same 50 mile ditance from me) had a Garmin nuvi Gps system $49 of regular price for that week. not to mention every month best buy has midnight only sales (that are most of the time useless but someties can find a gem) also if you give them your email they will email you sale of the days to you. keep a fairly close look at what your local best buy has and you may get lucky. other than that most of the ones ive seen for around $270 are open box deals that you have to lok for ..and like i said the regular everyday price for the htc flyer at best buy is $299 Good luck on your search!
Btw this weeks best buy ads show the Sony xperia play gaming cellphone for $1 to you just have to kinda get lucky that the thing you want is on sale Last edited by covfam; 10-26-2011 at 03:46 PM. |
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