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Always On - Torture-testing the new Kindle Fire HD

2012-10-09
all right we have here the brand new Kindle Fire HD 7 inch tablet and it's going through the torture testing or starting with the cold test two hours in the freezer all righty as a big 7-inch tablet see ya time to rescue the Kindle Fire HD 7 inch from the freezer lady how are you doing nice and cold the real trick here is for me to remember where the power button is someone I always get wrong I end up doing the drop test by accident there we go let's see oh oh no immediate response to power kind of nothing happened in here so far so we will let it thaw for a little while and charge maybe the battery died in there we know that can happen and see if it recovers Kindle Fire HD gave us a little bit of a scare but after I thought it and charged it for just a few minutes a little less than five minutes it came back on I think though that it just didn't like the cold because it is not all the way to at the bottom of a charge and I only charged it for maybe three minutes think it just want it to be warm but it's okay it up a little bit here my Kindle Fire is done I definitely have some plastic smell here is hot the smell of burning components this show is gonna kill me I would think I could sue somebody but it was all my idea okay let's see here we have no obvious damage so unlike some of our recent gadgets well it looks like it is pulling away a tiny bit so we do have a little bit of separation at the seams here from that heat it's not very dramatic but it is there just on that one side especially compared to this side you can see it looks a little bit different who comes on oh you know it changed it to my good idea I will let this cool for a little bit see how it's doing the Kindle Fire HD is all cooled off let's see how it's feeling it looks like it actually shut itself all the way down after I tried to turn it on while it was still really hot ah okay back to life seems to be okay Kindle seems to be okay it's okay all right I'm just gonna head outside and do a little reading I've got my hands kind of falling Oh Oh Kindle hand cramp too big to hold though let's see how we're doing here I might as well scrape it along the pavement when I pick it up - just to add insult to injury actually though this thing is in good shape I don't really see any scratches or anything major on the back the front is fine a little scuffing here some kind of Nick's but I gotta say that that's not major damage it's pretty tough maybe we should just try the concrete so heavy it's really dramatic although once again even despite some skidding we do have a little bit more scratch egde on the back here scratch äj-- that's an official always-on term one more Nick but overall I gotta say this thing is pretty tough I'm surprised it's still fine after the drop do I need some cookie oh no oh what a mess that's terrible what am I gonna do I know I have an idea there's stuff Oh it's gonna be okay Kindle okay it's clean phew probably stri this off a little now I guess oh wait the back still has some soda on it okay all better oh my screen still on let's see here oh look at that Oh the cookies ruined but the Kindle seems okay I'll give it the rice treatment just in case time to check on our Kindle Fire HD it's been in this bag of rice for 36 hours since we spilled soda on it and hosed it down that was a fun day let's see how it's doing though okay moment of truth ah it comes right on I mean it came right on wow screen seems totally fine carousel moving books gone still pretty responsive huh alright I'm gonna have to call that one a pass now the Kindle Fire HD sailed through our regular battery of torture tests but we just couldn't come up with the perfect wild-card idea so please email me some ideas always on @c Netcom and we will revisit this at a later date in the meantime maybe I'll use it try to get used to holding it
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