If Amazon made an ipod touch sized fire, would you buy it?

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jj2me

If one needs protected WMA decoding, for the present at least (who knows if we'll need it in the future for OverDrive?),...

The publishers are dragging their feet since OverDrive's announcement last Jan:

• OverDrive announces plan for audiobooks to be solely available in MP3 format

Since then, the only movement I've seen is this one from last May:

• 1,000+ Macmillan audiobooks now available as MP3

It's not looking good. At least my Clips will play the format.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by Glorfindel

Assuming that it was sized so that all the standard apps would work ok, would you get it?
I would

Absolutely! 4" screen is perfect for a media player. I love my SGP4.2 it's the perfect size. It has Gingerbread though so it's being left in the dust with all the latest apps.

[voracious71]

I love the six inch Fire. I think it is the perfect size.

[tubemonkey]

Reminder -- check out the Black Friday thread. Ads for major stores are starting to drop now and some really good tablet deals are starting to appear; especially for iPads.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by voracious71

I love the six inch Fire. I think it is the perfect size.

For a portable tablet I agree but not for a Media Player. Try carrying it on your armband while doing housework. The smaller the better in this case and the IPod Touch is the perfect size, It just needs to be Android and the latest version.

[jj2me]

Originally Posted by Blossom

It just needs to be Android and the latest version.

I'm just curious, because this is the second mention in this thread about needing to be a current version. Why is that? All the apps I use for media playing, like MX Player and Moon+ Reader Pro and jetAudio Plus, etc., work just fine on my Gingerbread (2.3.6) decommissioned phone.

I could use more RAM, but I've never encountered a need for a newer Android version. I rarely play games; is it for that?

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by jj2me

I'm just curious, because this is the second mention in this thread about needing to be a current version. Why is that? All the apps I use for media playing, like MX Player and Moon+ Reader Pro and jetAudio Plus, etc., work just fine on my Gingerbread (2.3.6) decommissioned phone.

I could use more RAM, but I've never encountered a need for a newer Android version. I rarely play games; is it for that?

Apps like Amazon MP3 wont install latest version you need Android 4.0 of higher now to use the latest version which has Prime Music. Same for Kindle and Scribd isn't gingerbread friendly with the new audiobooks features. It's only a matter of months maybe till more and more apps leave Gingerbread compatibility. Now is the time to upgrade your devices. I keep Gingerbread to backup paid apps from Google Play but more and more of those apps are becoming two different versions and not compatible with each other. In the last two months I have not been able to install apps on my Gingerbread devices because they are too old.

I blame Google with all the changes in KitKat and soon Lollipop it's getting harder and harder for backward compatibility.

[jj2me]

Thanks Blossom.

The Kyocera Vibe (CNET review here) for Virgin Mobile is an 8 GB, 1.5 GB RAM, Kit Kat phone with 4.5" screen (245 ppi), removable battery, and micro SD slot. Also water resistant.

It's a Target Black Friday deal for $30, and is currently on sale at Best Buy for $60.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jj2me

Thanks Blossom.

The Kyocera Vibe (CNET review here) for Virgin Mobile is an 8 GB, 1.5 GB RAM, Kit Kat phone with 4.5" screen (245 ppi), removable battery, and micro SD slot. Also water resistant.

It's a Target Black Friday deal for $30, and is currently on sale at Best Buy for $60.

Another phone to consider is the LG Volt for Boost Mobile. Kmart will have it on sale for $35 ($40 + $5 in points) starting 7pm Thanksgiving night.

Specs for the Volt include:

• Android: 4.4 - KitKat
• CPU: quad-core Snapdragon 400 1.2GHz
• RAM: 1GB
• Storage: 8GB
• mSD: up to 32GB
• Display: 4.7" -- 960x540 -- 234 ppi -- GG 2
• Battery: 3,000 mAh -- removable

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by jj2me

Thanks Blossom.

The Kyocera Vibe (CNET review here) for Virgin Mobile is an 8 GB, 1.5 GB RAM, Kit Kat phone with 4.5" screen (245 ppi), removable battery, and micro SD slot. Also water resistant.

It's a Target Black Friday deal for $30, and is currently on sale at Best Buy for $60.

Looks good to me! I plan to get a new phone for actually phone use but mine will have to be Straight Talk as that's who I am with as they run off of Verizon. The phone I am getting has very little storage compared to that one. For $30 if I could pick it up online then I'd go for it to use as a media player.

[tubemonkey]

I have a post in the Black Friday thread listing most of the no-contract phones that'll be on sale. The listing also includes key specs for comparison.

• No-Contract Phones

[Glorfindel]

Sweet

[jj2me]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

I have a post in the Black Friday thread listing most of the no-contract phones that'll be on sale. The listing also includes key specs for comparison.

• No-Contract Phones

Terrific job, tubemonkey. (I see you had the Vibe scoped out before my post, sorry, I should have looked there.)

The Nokia Lumia 635 even has an FM radio, for those who want one in their media player (but it only has 512 MB of RAM).

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by jj2me

Terrific job, tubemonkey. (I see you had the Vibe scoped out before my post, sorry, I should have looked there.)

The Nokia Lumia 635 even has an FM radio, for those who want one in their media player (but it only has 512 MB of RAM).

It's all cool; the more we get the word out, the better

I love FM radio and listen to it daily at home

Notice how 512MB and 4GB dominate this category of phones? Folks will be much better off with 1GB RAM and 8GB storage. That's why I split the listing up. Tis better to choose from the first list.

[booklover6]

Originally Posted by booklover6

I just ordered a clip case for my 520, which cost me .01.

I'm annoyed. When the phone is in the holster, you can't get to the button that wakes it up. There is no other way to wake the phone up. Talk about bad design!

The other thing I ordered, a Radiant no contract phone, has arrived. But I can't do anything with it, yet. It has to charge. The belt holster for that one doesn't block the on button, at least.

Phone is charged and works great as a wifi mini Android tablet/media player! I downloaded 2 audio books from Scribd and am listening to one, now.