HD New 2014 Kindle Fires - discuss

[Blossom]

Keep what you got the HDX uses Blue LEDs which causes a blue haze on the tablet. It varies how bad it could be. I've gotten one that was noticeable, one with color blobs, and the last try I gave it look like some had taken a blue marker and drew lines. I'd stay away from that tablet if you want something you can read on.

I bet money on Amazon is clearancing them out. Too many returns due to blue light bleed.

[SCION]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Keep what you got the HDX uses Blue LEDs which causes a blue haze on the tablet. It varies how bad it could be. I've gotten one that was noticeable, one with color blobs, and the last try I gave it look like some had taken a blue marker and drew lines. I'd stay away from that tablet if you want something you can read on.

I bet money on Amazon is clearancing them out. Too many returns due to blue light bleed.

Yeah, I agree with Blossom. I had one for a few days before returning it for the HDX 8.9. The blue LEDs were noticeable, but didn't bother me when reading. Perhaps I was just in awe of the 323 PPI.

I researched the ASUS 7 ME572 and went to Best Buy for a hands on. It's really nice spec wise and 1920 x 1200 looks great. For $179 I would get it over the Fire HDX, unless you really want to download Prime videos.

I was tempted to get the ASUS but decided 7 inches is too small, it's why I returned the HDX (my Sony phone is 6.4"). Discovered the 8" Lenovo Tab S8 next to it (researched it online while there), and went home with that. It was mistakenly still marked down to $159 from $199, I guess from Black Friday. I made them honor the price. If someone's in the market for an 8" tablet look at the Lenovo. Suprisingly great hardware.

[Josieb1]

I wouldn't buy a Fire over a decent Android tablet. I love my HD6 but I only really use it for text to speech and audio books. I use my Asus Memo pad 7 more and that's just a basic android tablet.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I wouldn't buy a Fire over a decent Android tablet. I love my HD6 but I only really use it for text to speech and audio books. I use my Asus Memo pad 7 more and that's just a basic android tablet.

I agree, for the most part. If there was a 6" Android tablet with comparable specs, I would buy it. I don't think there is, hence the reason I have bought a handful of Fire HD 6 tablets.

There are some apps in the Amazon App store that only work on Fires, so that is one reason to have a Fire, if you have or want those apps.

In the 7" tablet realm, there is nothing the Fire can do that my Nexus 7 (2013) can't do better. Fire hardware is mostly great, and often a great price, if you can live with the limitations. Nexus 7 hardware is great, without those limitations.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Let us know how well the citron colors match for the case and HD6.

To my eyes, the color is a PERFECT match.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by booklover6

To my eyes, the color is a PERFECT match.

Cool, it looked like they'd match; but you never can tell.

[Josieb1]

Originally Posted by booklover6

I agree, for the most part. If there was a 6" Android tablet with comparable specs, I would buy it. I don't think there is, hence the reason I have bought a handful of Fire HD 6 tablets.

There are some apps in the Amazon App store that only work on Fires, so that is one reason to have a Fire, if you have or want those apps.

In the 7" tablet realm, there is nothing the Fire can do that my Nexus 7 (2013) can't do better. Fire hardware is mostly great, and often a great price, if you can live with the limitations. Nexus 7 hardware is great, without those limitations.

I would have loved a Nexus over my Asus but it would have had to be a 32GB as my Asus takes an SD card, (mines a 16GB)and that would have been double the price. I only paid £79 (the same price as the HD6 8GB) for it over the Black Friday weekend reduced from £120.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by booklover6

I agree, for the most part. If there was a 6" Android tablet with comparable specs, I would buy it. I don't think there is, hence the reason I have bought a handful of Fire HD 6 tablets.

There are some apps in the Amazon App store that only work on Fires, so that is one reason to have a Fire, if you have or want those apps.

In the 7" tablet realm, there is nothing the Fire can do that my Nexus 7 (2013) can't do better. Fire hardware is mostly great, and often a great price, if you can live with the limitations. Nexus 7 hardware is great, without those limitations.

The tablet in question Is made by the same people as the Nexus 7.2 and suppose to be pretty much the same with a few improvements. You can read about it here.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I wouldn't buy a Fire over a decent Android tablet. I love my HD6 but I only really use it for text to speech and audio books. I use my Asus Memo pad 7 more and that's just a basic android tablet.

It's based off the Nexus 7.2 so I can see why. Asus makes the Nexus 7 as well. So both are great tablets.

[Glorfindel]

HP Stream 7 is calling me, and at the same time, so is the HD 6. What to buy...

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

HP Stream 7 is calling me, and at the same time, so is the HD 6. What to buy...

Windows Tablets are great if you are going to use them for Productivity but keep in mind there is alot of storage limitations with them as well. Each app is allocated only a certain amount space to use. I think on the Kindle app you can have like 25 books at a time. There is no Moon+ or Mantano that I know of so very little good app for reading and the Kindle app for Surface is quite buggy.

Have to add I hate Windows 8 with a passion! It's one of the worst Windows ever made.

[Glorfindel]

Hmm. Well, personally, I like Windows 8 and wouldn't really need much for reading, I've heard that the Windows app store has hardly anything for apps, though I wouldn't mind that too much.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

Hmm. Well, personally, I like Windows 8 and wouldn't really need much for reading, I've heard that the Windows app store has hardly anything for apps, though I wouldn't mind that too much.

For me Windows 8 is a constant tug of war. It's so unstable and crashes all the time. I can leave it idle for like 5 minutes and it comes to a stand still and then I have to fight the next 5 minutes to close the programs and reboot. Windows 8 is a joke. There is so much running in the background you have no control over. I have to reboot like two to three times a day it's ridiculous.

I'm not sure you can add custom books to the Kindle app though. I haven't tried that. It may do PDocs (doesn't look like it does yet) but I'm not sure if has more than one font yet or supports publisher's font. I uninstalled it months ago. The Kindle Android app is just as good as the Kindle Fire Reader though.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

Keep what you got the HDX uses Blue LEDs which causes a blue haze on the tablet. It varies how bad it could be. I've gotten one that was noticeable, one with color blobs, and the last try I gave it look like some had taken a blue marker and drew lines. I'd stay away from that tablet if you want something you can read on.

I bet money on Amazon is clearancing them out. Too many returns due to blue light bleed.

Reportedly they figured out the problem and fixed it in later production runs. But that does not mean the ones they are selling at this otherwise exceptional price don't have this issue. These are 'new' but for all we know they stopped making the 4g models before the fix. So I would approach this deal with caution, and be prepared to return it if one is unhappy with the display.

I went through this a couple of months ago, they had a nifty sale on refurbs. But it had a very noticeable (to me) blue halo and I returned it immediately. Amazon never publicly acknowledged it as the defect it clearly is. Moreover, they continue to ship them rather than scrap them (as I discovered). Of course if all you are doing is watching videos and playing games with it, there is not really any issue.

However, the lack of a rear facing camera alone would be a deal breaker for me. It does not have to be a great camera, just one that is good enough to do captures of print, pages of books, etc (as the new HD's have).

[Anthem]

Originally Posted by Blossom

For me Windows 8 is a constant tug of war. It's so unstable and crashes all the time. I can leave it idle for like 5 minutes and it comes to a stand still and then I have to fight the next 5 minutes to close the programs and reboot. Windows 8 is a joke. There is so much running in the background you have no control over. I have to reboot like two to three times a day it's ridiculous.

This is NOT normal behavior for Windows 8.x. I've had three machines running Windows 8.x in my office and none of them exhibited these symptoms (one Lenovo all-in-one, a Lenovo Yoga 2 and an OLD HP laptop). So, despite your bad experience you can rest assured that what you are experiencing is certainly not the norm for Windows 8.x.