Hello. My Kindle Fire arrived Weds 16 Nov. First off, thanks to Blossom(?) for her posts on getting books onto the puppy.
Some thoughts and questions.
Built-In features:
- Amazon Video is pretty impressive
- I have a super-fast commercial fibre connection and N WiFi, but Netflix is so jumpy it's unwatchable
- What? No Exchange email support? (See below)
- No Calendar?
- The Cloud base storage is a bit small
- As is 7GB or so of storage
- Love the screen
- Not loving how many apps Amazon's store claims are "not compatible"
So... I started working around it. Currently I have...
- Quantum's Enhanced Email; I needed 2xExchange accounts, and even TouchDown can't do that.
- Business Calendar, which Amazon claims is not compatible, but which works wonderfully with both calendars.
- Opera Mini. Yeah, Amazon includes a browser. I prefer Opera.
- File Expert, which is a fantastic way of getting files on the Fire. It can access a Windows share directly and even install from it, and while it can't seem to do that with a Mac SMB share, it can act as a web server for copying to the Fire from the Mac.
- Root stuff: SuperUser, Root Explorer, SQLite Explorer. Useful for me, probably not for most people. I haven't used it for anything a non-developer would care about.
- Voodoo OTA RootKeeper, so that I can turn root on/off and keep Video working.
- My own list/password/shopping app, which syncs to my PC, Mac (yes, I use both) and any J2ME, Nokia and Android devices I'm using. I had to fix a small bug in it but it doesn't require any Kindle-specific code.
One very bizarre thing: I buy all my books from Amazon and have been using Kindle software on my iPod and Android phone for a long time. Last week I sync'd a "sample" of Terry Pratchett's Snuff onto my phone. Two days later Snuff was no longer available, sample or full, for the Kindle. Still on UK site (which I will forever think of as BookPages), but not in the U.S.
Any idea what's up with that? Even in the sample if I try to buy, it's "Not available".
Thanks