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Originally Posted by Leep
I think if you look at the specs for the Kindle Fire and the Lenovo Ideapad, you will see that they are almost identical except for the storage card. (and, of course, Amazon's promised 'cloud' content and silk connection when we figure out what it really is).
At this point, I'm starting to lean toward the Lenovo because of the open App marketplace vs. Amazon App store.
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I think you are right on the major components. The Lenovo has many minor items that the Fire doesn't have and these add up to be a major factor.
GPS is one of the biggest.
The A1 has a microphone. I don't think that the Fire does.
The two cameras.
USB2 OTG
Bluetooth
It comes as basically an Open system.
Android and Lenovo Markets.
I would also like to restate something.
The Jeff Bezos Amazon cloud for storage is fine to a point, but any cloud needs connectivity which for the Fire and the Lenovo means WiFi.
The Lenovo may have up to 32GB internal storage. Numbers mentioned have been 2GB(for 199USD), 8GB, 16GB (for 250USD) and 32GB for 300USD) We don't know what the offer will be on Amazon when it gets over there.
The Kindle Fire has 6GB of 8GB available for the user and then you go to the cloud.
The Lenovo can use an external memory card up to 32GB.
These cards are actually a lot cheaper than buying internal memory for the Lenovo. You can have multiple cards.
The USB2 allow you to hook up to an external drive. A little one costs say 100USD and has 1TB.
The Fire lacks many things, and some of those aren't so important, but memory is.