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Originally Posted by MsAstoria
wow, the Fire HDX is incredibly light! Makes my 1 yo Kindle Fire feel like a heavy rock, lol. First impression is very positive. Crisp true color display, no issue with book reading either that Blossom reported. Audiobook played beautifully. Email set up. Wish there was a way to copy my contacts over from gmail. will have to look into that. I bought the 32GB wi-fi, no ads version. $444 vs $599 for Apple iPad Air. Thats a big difference and I am a Apple consumer, both laptop and phone. I see this tablet giving the Air a run for the money especially in these financial times.
I like the on/off switch location too, never could get use the one on the Fire, was always hunting for it. Volume controls located on the back are ok, I can see they had to put them there as the unit is so thin, no room for buttons around the bezel. All in all, an A+ for an exceptional handheld device.
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I am a huge Apple fan, I just received my 8.9 HDX and all I can say is WOW. It blows my iPad out of the water.
It feels like Amazon took the feedback about what was wrong with the 8.9 HD and fixed most of it. I love the weight, the screen is gorgeous, the buttons on the back are easy to find and use compared to the flush hidden buttons on the HD (one of my biggest pet peeves) and they moved the charging port out of the way so you can now watch videos while charging and not worry about the cable.
I only purchased the 16gb version, but it's going back tomorrow and I'm replacing with the 32gb. I can see that this device may very well take over a lot of the areas I use my iPad for. I love many of the new features and OS changes and I can't keep my hands off this! It's going to be awful sending it back and waiting for the new one to arrive.