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Old 10-03-2011, 12:17 PM   #1
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Welcome to the kindle fire section. For discussion about all thing Kindle Fire.

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Old 10-03-2011, 12:28 PM   #2
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Old 10-03-2011, 12:59 PM   #3
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Good evening.

I've zero interest in the Fire - it's not targeted at me and above all, I'm old fashioned, locally stored high quality vid is my choice - but I can certainly see it succeeding.

The only thing I struggle to get my head around is the combo of low storage capacity and wifi only. Streaming/cloud is a big part of Amazon's strategy but doesn't the lack of 3G seriously hamper this functionality? I can understand the reasons of it being omitted - hardware cost and perhaps people's unwillingness to get tied into another data plan - but there being no option of the upsell surprises me. 3G option to come later mayhaps?
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Old 10-05-2011, 09:56 PM   #4
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Just wondering: do we really need a separate forum for this? We could just have tags to indicate the genre of thread topic, assuming we could come up with a reasonable set of them (K1, K2, K3, K4, KTouch, KFire). Topics of general Kindle interest of course would not need a tag. This seems to work ok on the Nook and Apple forums, and I like not having to scan 2 or more forums when 1 will do..

Just a thought, belated though it may be.
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Good evening.

The only thing I struggle to get my head around is the combo of low storage capacity and wifi only. Streaming/cloud is a big part of Amazon's strategy but doesn't the lack of 3G seriously hamper this functionality? I can understand the reasons of it being omitted - hardware cost and perhaps people's unwillingness to get tied into another data plan - but there being no option of the upsell surprises me. 3G option to come later mayhaps?
You say you can understand, but I think you're not taking the numbers into account. A standard 1080p, ONE-HOUR tv show runs roughly 1.2gb. The same tv show in 720p is still 400mb. Never mind movies. With typical data plans running what...2-5gb / mo?

You're not going to see anything like that until there's true, unlimited, cellular (or other 'anywhere' tech) plans available.
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Old 10-12-2011, 09:19 AM   #7
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Just wondering: do we really need a separate forum for this? We could just have tags to indicate the genre of thread topic, assuming we could come up with a reasonable set of them (K1, K2, K3, K4, KTouch, KFire). Topics of general Kindle interest of course would not need a tag. This seems to work ok on the Nook and Apple forums, and I like not having to scan 2 or more forums when 1 will do..

Just a thought, belated though it may be.
The Kindle fire really doesn't seem to have an awful lot in common with the eInk Kindles though. It seems much closer to a Nook Color, Galaxy Tab, etc... An LCD tablet running a Kindle app. The Nook Color does now have a separate sub-forum.
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Just wondering: do we really need a separate forum for this? We could just have tags to indicate the genre of thread topic, assuming we could come up with a reasonable set of them (K1, K2, K3, K4, KTouch, KFire). Topics of general Kindle interest of course would not need a tag. This seems to work ok on the Nook and Apple forums, and I like not having to scan 2 or more forums when 1 will do..

Just a thought, belated though it may be.
If it were me, I'd place the Kindle Fire and Nook Color in the Android Forum.
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As the OP says we did consider that... but felt more main stream users would just look for it in the Kindle and/or Nook sections.

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As the OP says we did consider that... but felt more main stream users would just look for it in the Kindle and/or Nook sections.

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