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Old 11-03-2011, 01:51 PM   #108
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I feel your pain. I've been looking at the Fire again too. What concerns me most is that there's no SD card (I'm not fond of the idea of "cloud storage") and the 7" screen. I'd prefer a slightly larger display (8" to 9" would be ideal for me). The hardware does look good otherwise, though. I'll be interested in Fire owners' comments regarding limitations that Amazon has put on the device. It seems like it's designed primarily as an Amazon media-consumption tablet. Which actually may be fine for my needs. I'm not sure, as I'm still trying to define what I want a tablet to do.

There will be many other Android tablets coming out within the next few months and retailers probably will be discounting older devices since some of the new devices will have the latest Android 4.0 (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), so for now I'm taking a "wait and see" attitude. But the Fire is still very tempting!
And that is why I want to wait for reviews. I would prefer a slot for Memory cards, I don't know how well it would work when travelling on a plane without WiFi. How long will it take to download a movie? How many can I have on it at one time? (The product page said 10, with a large number of apps, without apps?) I sometimes travel for 16-24 hours for work and would want to be able to have an entire season of a TV series with me. Will I have space?

And I really like the idea of a bigger screen. Then again, I played Little Big Planet on my PSP for 4 hours flying home from Hawaii and that is a much smaller screen so maybe 7 inches will be enough.

And are the Amazon videos DRMed? I am fine with storing stuff in the Cloud but I want it stored on my computer and a portable hard drive as well without DRM for safe keeping.

So many questions and not enough answers yet.

Now if I wanted a touch e-ink reader I would be in the cue because I know that I live my Kindle. I don't have a device like the Fire yet and so I have more questions which makes it a bit easier to ignore the Devil (named SCION, kennyc, and a few others) on my shoulder suggesting that I buy it now. Right now. Immediatly.
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