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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
Do the (not Kindle) Fire tablets more or less use the app interface? I have a (7th gen?) Fire 7 that I'd check on, except it's unusably laggy
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I believe 7th gen have the latest Kindle app and FireOS (I have 7th gen Fire 8HD but it is Deregistered as of a couple of months ago). It runs the same version as the latest Android app. The only difference is that the Fire app has TTS.
Somewhere between 4th gen Fire and 7th Fire, the Kindle app doesn’t get updated any more and lacks Series grouping. Things like Alexa still get updates, and FireOS may still get security and bug fixes (but none since at least March).
But the iOS and Android apps have in addition to Home and Library, there are Discover/Store and More screens (where Settings are) that you select at the bottom. At the top is a Notifications button (be glad these are not on Kindle) and search bar, where Store and More/settings buttons are.
The Kindle quick settings at the top are equivalent of iOS Control Panel or Android settings/notification panel that appear when you swipe from top (or on TouchID iPhones, swipe up from bottom for some reason I don’t understand).
But yes, there is a lot of similarity. They could move Store and Settings menu to the bottom on Kindle for even more similarity.
The one thing I wish they would do is to let you choose tap zones in reading mode that are the same as the apps (page left|Options|Page right). I keep tapping the middle of the screen to bring up options and it turns the page. That’s always been the biggest muscle memory issue when moving back and forth, and ‘easy reach’ is only easy reach if you hold in left hand, and never really made sense to me. Why not at least allow it to be reversed?
Hey, and it is now just Web Browser instead of Experimental Web Browser! AFAICT it is just a label change but I have not tried any of the things that did not work any more like signing in to DropBox, OneDrive etc. Wonder if you can access Kindle Vella with it (not that I can find anything in there that interests me).