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hey guys its ian here with a tour of the operating system on the amazon kindle fire i'm playing around with this for a day or so now I've got some thoughts some good some not so good so I figured I'd go ahead and share with you guys so the first thing is that this runs on android 2.3 AKA gingerbread now android is very popular OS for phones as many of you guys will most likely know and this is a good and bad thing now the way amazon toxic an all-new you know they've redesigned it and they basically just kind of took some pieces of android and added a lot of their own and it is true this is a very customized experience this isn't like any android device I've ever tried however Android is still definitely here and to be honest I don't really think of this as an all-new let Oso really think of this as Android with the skin so go ahead and give you guys a quick walkthrough up top left here is where our notifications are so there's this very similar to Android instead of just dragging it down you just tap it and for example here we go we have a notification air about a playback error rather so it's really nice to know i also do out of time and up here is where we go ahead and select many of our different controls now this is very important the amazon kindle fire lacks several key buttons as well the home button and I'm sorry as far as physical buttons go it likes a home button as well as a volume control now this is a bit of a problem for me however all this is in the OS so for example right down here tap on that that's the home button and if we want to change the volume I can certainly do that from right here I know but there's nothing wrong with the way it is in the OS the problem is these are kind of buttons I'd like to you know be able to have on the device so for example you know if I was listening to music last night especially a perfect example I was listening to music last night i was listening to one of the speakers and that plugged my headphones in and volume I had it blasting on the speakers and I listened to it on my headphones it absolutely just blasted my ears out because I didn't change the volume and so instead just being able to hit it real fast or anything I had to go in while I was killing my ears I had to hit this and then hit volume and then drag it down which was a big pain in the ass and it really hurt my ears just so I don't mean to be complaining or anything but it is a bit of a problem how there's no buttons like that but enough of that let's go out and continue on with the tour so right here we have a search menu now the keyboard on this is actually fantastic i really really do like it you know it's a nice size on a 7-inch screen so we can type out whatever we want so let's just go and type out Duncan 333 03 yeah the keyboard I can't say enough about that on the keyboard really does work well it's very similar to the Android but I believe they've reskinned it a little bit but yeah so from the search menu we can search from our library so if we had any video content like that what can tap over here and search for the web so I'll pull up all kinds of web searches like that so kind of nice thing to do allow you to search and all that kind of stuff just straight from the device now up here we do have a variety of different like hot links to oh I don't suppose not hot legs but likes to normal applications so r example we can go to newsstand I'll try to be brief here may give you guys the little example actually let me make sure you guys book since actually have some books on here so for example in books we have a couple of options so we can pick on the cloud so these are all the books that i have purchased or gotten through amazon on top of that we can also look at the ones that are on the device itself and if we want come over here unless i want to go ahead and continue reading one of these books i can just simply tap on and it will download and it will be on the device and I'll be good to go this source really quite nicely and I do like how they've integrated all these amazon services if i want to click over here it will take me to the amazon store where i can buy more books which is a kind of obvious but yeah definitely does work very nice i like how they did this ah same thing goes for music video all that kind of stuff works quite nicely i'll kind of skip on that save on time but i will show you guys apps now apps are well of course the South have an app store it is a full tablet and there are quite a few absolutely come installed installed few of these like Netflix and most of these have installed but it does come with some major ones such as the email application facebook contacts quickoffice and a couple of others like that so again this is on my device if I had any apps i had purchased for example here's a couple of them that come pre-installed pandora acceptor etc i can just simply tap on them since they've been pre-purchased i suppose but they don't actually come on the device and again i can come to the store and browse through you won't get too in-depth into this part however there are quite a few different applications and they do have one major free app every day so for example today it's going to be bejeweled 2 which actually not too probably pick up a nap i like bejeweled there are lots of different apps it's not as big of an place is for example the android market which you cannot easily get on here you can sideload it if you want but it doesn't come pre-installed or anything like that and while I don't really have a major problem with the amazon appstore it is just nothing spectacular all right so what about done here of course we had this little Curacao there's all of our most recent applications there's nothing we can do about this so you want to say I want to get rid of this you can't swipe it or anything like that basically going way to get rid of something like this is just to let it scroll back forever so I mean it's nice meeting you see here we have books we have applications music web page pretty much anything you do on the device will show up here that definite would like an option to go ahead and yell swipe some things away and if we want to scroll down here we have what's known as a doc so we can add some certain things so the nice thing is we can add anything we want here so so I want to add a book simply hold on add to favorites and if we scroll them here man we have a link to the book and of course take this right there as any guys it's gonna be about it for my tour of the operating system on the Amazon Kindle Fire definitely some pros and cons the responsiveness isn't amazing that's kind of hard to tell on a demo you really have to get your hands on one and feel for yourself for a two-hundred-dollar tablet I don't really have any problems but ah there's they could be a little bit quick I just look at that you definitely really recommend before you buy my these test it out and kind of get your hands on and see how responsive it is and all that kind of stuff because it's kind of hard to show you guys in a video anyway if you enjoyed this video definitely sure to leave the thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos on the Kindle Fire be sure to subscribe