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hey guys this is Austin and today beautiful review of the Amazon Kindle Fire HD as a major update to the original fire it looks good on paper but how is it compared to the Google Nexus 7 taking a look at the hardware of the Fire HD you'll see it's quite nicely designed up front you'll find a 7 inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 this is among the best 7 inch screens I've ever used with great viewing angles and solid clarity and brightness you'll also see a 1.3 megapixel camera up front which is just fine for video calling one thing a lot of people pointed out my unboxing is the larger bezel on the Kindle compared to the Nexus even though they have identical size screens in real use I actually appreciate this as it gives you a comfortable grip no matter how you hold the tablet flip the Fire HD around back and you'll see it's coated in a soft touch rubber with a pair of stereo speakers it's perfectly comfortable however I found myself liking the field the Nexus 7 more with its golf ball-like texture speaking of speakers good speaking of speakers you'll find the Kindle Fires absolutely no joke for a tablet there's plenty of volume and when holding in landscape it's actually enough to give you a bit of a surround sound fuel these head and shoulders above the Nexus 7 where the audio is definitely one of the weaker points media is where the fire shines if you have an Amazon Prime membership and really if you own the Kindle you're going to want one the sheer amount of stuff to watch listen and read is incredible for video you have almost Netflix levels of shows and movies available for free with Prime and there's even more available to buy and rent the Nexus has the Google Play Store where you can also buy and rent video but it's nothing on the Kindle sango's for books the Kindle ecosystem is excellent with a huge selection of books available and if you have Prime many are free to borrow such as Harry Potter something new is immersion reading which for around four dollars will allow you to buy the audiobook version of a Kindle book and let you read along with the narration wandered through the Midwest picking up work as a mechanic until at age 19 he joined the Coast Guard it's not available for all books but is actually a really cool feature the Nexus has the Google Play book store but honestly I just use the Kindle app for Android which works just fine - the immersion reading giving away from media let's talk a bit about the software the Kindle Fire HD runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but with such an in-depth skin I don't think it's a stretch to call it a new OS it's a big step up from the last Kindle Fire as the carousel is much smoother and there's less lag to be found that said it still strikes me as poorly designed there are no physical home back buttons instead they pop up on the side of the screen the apps themselves are also oddly laid out most of the time and the entire experience just feels unnatural and complicated there are also the ads it's clear why Amazon sells the Kindle for so cheap it's nothing short of a giant advertisement to get you to buy more stuff lock screen ads home screen lady content aka ads all the main apps ways to buy stuff there's even an offers app which just houses ads to be fair some of these can be helpful to find new content but taken as a whole it's almost too much you can't pay fifteen dollars to remove the ads but the design is baked deep into the core take one look at the Nexus 7 and you'll be greeted with stock Android 4.1 jelly bean which is leaps and bounds better and smoother with the promise of feature updates as the Kindle Fire really isn't aimed at the geek crowd like me I won't go too in depth on the specs but inside you'll find a dual core processor and one gigabyte of RAM which is just fine for even more demanding games where you will find a big difference between the Kindle and Nexus is storage space as the kennel comes with 16 gigabytes for the same price as the Nexus with 8 gigabytes the comparison here complicated though a might scene is actually fairly straightforward if you're not particularly tech inclined and want to tablet this laser focused on delivering media the Kindle Fire HD just does it better on the other hand the Nexus gives you much more freedom and a vastly better experience in using it if you can get around the slightly weaker screen and much more speaker for me the Nexus 7 is flirting with excellence while the Kindle Fire HD is solid but flawed I feel it's best for a lot of people but definitely not for me