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it's Josh regard for manager authority what's going on everybody and I wanted to revisit the Kindle Fire tablets by Amazon just to show you a feature in real time that I kind of touched upon in the Kindle Fire HDX review it's the special offers version of the Kindle Fire HD tablet that I'm going to show you in comparison to the one without the special offers now if you're wondering what special offers means essentially it's Amazon's way of putting ads on your device in order to keep the cost a little bit lower however only fifteen extra dollars will allow you to have a version of the Kindle Fire or other Kindle devices without these ads on them so here we're working with two Kindle Fire HD tablets these are not the HDX tablets this is more of the mid-range offering that Amazon has and yes I got two of them because one of them has these special offers and the other one does not so we're going to start off with the one that doesn't so let's just turn on the tablet and you can see here this is the lockscreen I did ask somebody during a May Day session if this lockscreen is customizable if you can put a different picture I was told unfortunately you cannot and it became clear to me why it's because this space is used by Amazon for those special offers so now that we got that out of the way let's take a look at the Kindle Fire HD when it does have special offers on now like I said before it is pretty much relegated to just the lockscreen you're not going to see it anywhere else so you have to sort of keep that in mind and this is what it looks like when you turn on your Kindle Fire it will have an advertisement has the lockscreen with the typical lockscreen slider right there for you to get back into the tablet and as you can see here the fire OS still looks just about the same there's really nothing different about it but of course just like with any Amazon product you're going to see those recommendations and they're the same ones right here so it is pretty much the same experience that's only the difference of the lockscreen being used as an ad space and so that's just a quick look at the special offers feature that is available on Kindle tablets it doesn't even have to be the HD or the HDX it could also be on regular Kindle eBook readers in all honesty I don't find them that intrusive I have seen plenty of comments here they're saying that their people are annoyed at the ABS that they see on their Kindle Fires or their Kindle tablets that being said however the main idea here is that if you get a tablet with special offers on it you save fifteen dollars or if you think of it the other way if you don't want those ads you got to pay fifteen extra dollars so it's really up to you whether or not the price point is there and also fifteen dollars actually isn't that much considering that these tablets are all pretty affordable so as always thank you very much for watching if you want to see the Kindle Fire HDX review there's a link right over there on the side along with a link to a feature focus showing you what the Mayday feature looks like so keep it tuned to this channel because we're your source for all things Android