Thread: old vs new fire HDX
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Old 11-13-2016, 06:45 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
They made two HDX 8.9 versions. Gen 3 2013 , and gen 4 2014. I know as i have owned both!
But I broke the older one, bought a gen 4 refurbished from Amazon, am now looking at buying another gen 3 as a cheap backup. For Simplicity, I called them new and old in the first post.
The newER of the 2 has os 5, no carousel, the older is OS4 with carousel. Wikipedia has all the differences.
I have a hdx7 & the newer version of the hdx8.9. I acually rolled back to OS 4 on the hdx8.9 I didn't like the home screen on the new OS 5, plus I like having the carousel. Just my preference, however I will probably roll back to the newer OS 5 at some point just to stay current. I would also be at a loss as to what to get next when those stop working. I like Kindles, and do like the Amazon ecosystem. With the New Fires it's easy to stay in that system. So I'd probably get a Fire 8, on sale at some point as well.
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