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hey guys it's Branham in a min from pocket now calm you know Amazon kind of invented the low-cost tablet when the kindle fire first came out it was only two hundred and forty nine bucks and in a day when i pads were five hundred bucks and galaxy tabs for four or five hundred bucks the kindle fire was totally breakthrough in revolutionary in terms of the pricing model and then barnes and noble came out with a competitor at the same price and then about a year later google came out with an even lower price tablet the nexus 7 and only 199 dollars well not standing still amazon has just released two new kindle fires the first of which is out now it's the kindle fire HD 7-inch it's got very similar specs to the nexus 7 but it has double the capacity at the same exact price points it's a totally content centric device it's not open android like you get on the Nexus 7 so it's a bit limiting although the development community is working on having this guy so in this video we're going to talk about the kindle fire as it is now and this is our unboxing the kindle fire HD 7-inch let's get to it all right in the kindle fire HD 7 is available for 199 bucks for the 16 gigabyte model or 249 bucks for the 32 gigabyte model and of course that's double the capacity that you get in comparison to the nexus 7 but of course you kind of get less with the kindle fire HD because you can only consume amazon content amazon apps amazon prime video content amazon kindle ebooks and so forth so you may or may not like that so here's the charger it uses micro USB it's good to see standards used and we've got the device here well then we've got some information up at the top getting to know your kindle okay well i'm sure i can get to know it without the instructions so here's the kindle fire HD 7-inch definitely better hardware than we got in the first generation kindle fire we've got a higher resolution screen 1280 by 800 the same resolution that you get on the Nexus 7 it's kind of HD it can play 720p video but you'll get letterbox so here's our device on the back got a nice rubbery texture this guy has really thick bezels and they do that because this is a reading device immediate consumption device amazon wants to make sure that you're comfortable holding this device for long periods of time so you have something to grab on to without accidentally pressing on the screen I've got a front-facing camera here it's meant to be used in landscape obviously or else it would have been over here or over here very thin device it feels a lot like the nexus 7 actually probably a little bit more high quality in hand actually and a little bit thinner a little bit heavier but definitely nice to hold we've got dual stereo speakers here amazon claims that it has room filling sound although i doubt that that's going to be possible from a tablet but hey tablet speakers are horrible so hopefully this is a step up let's turn on the fire HD I look at this power button it's completely flush with it with a device which is kind of annoying so we'll tap and hold and there we go kindle fire here we go let's zoom in and get a closer look now one of the problems with the nexus 7 was the screen color saturation is horrible on the Nexus 7 and apparently the Kindle Fire fixes that it has much better color saturation so in some ways this is better than a nexus 7 but again you can't forget that this is not stock Android this is Amazon's version of Android it's very limited and again the the developer community might hack this thing might get android jelly bean on it and make it feel like a nexus 7 but that has not happened yet all right so we're gonna put in our password here okay and we're connecting so this is dual band Wi-Fi apparently has fantastic Wi-Fi performance but to be honest other tablets out there that we've used and tested did not have bad Wi-Fi performance so you know maybe they improved upon something that didn't even need to be improved upon so we're going to set eastern time here it should be registered to me one of the great things that Amazon does is right out of the box that's registered to your Amazon account so you don't have to do anything I'm going to get started now let's see what we have we're going to see the familiar kindle interface so this is sort of a tutorial and i don't want to see you tutorial i guess you have to go throw don't you so let's get through this real quick and close good okay so interesting so here are my books already here ready to go right off the bat which is fantastic and of course here's all of the content that you can consume again this thing is really meant to be used in landscape very smooth performance here moves quite quickly the original kinder fire had really bad performance so so far so good I kind of want to go into the web browser because they're still using the silk amazon silk which is basically server-side rendering so i'm going to go to see let's go to facebook real quick we're gonna go to pocket now actually and see how web browsing performance here we're running on a dual-core processor with a gigabyte of ram of course the the Nexus 7 has a quad-core processor let's see how web browsing performances causing performance on the original kinder fire was literally the worst experience on a tablet that I have ever had and so far the screen looks great by the way this is how Amazon sets up their experience on Android they've got these buttons along the side which I think sort of hide away or eventually I guess that you can do full screen browsing here and they hide away when you get a little tab here you see you can kind of drag out that information so let's move around on the screen yeah you know you're not going to be buying this device for web browsing performance although maybe that was just a temporary stutter let's zoom in pretty good zoom out quickly actually I'm actually sort of impressed let's see how it does a flash content we've got a video here the first load seemed kind of slow there but let's see how things go once we give it a chance I never found silk to be faster than anything else really it just seemed to be sort of a buzz word see how I'll flash content loads it looks YouTube videos just fine you gotta press play again ok now we're going fullscreen ok zoom in camera hi well for dual band Wi-Fi this is taking a long time so it's a load of a simple flash or YouTube video alright that's a little too long for me so we're going to back out and we're going to talk a lot about the kindle fire HD we're going to watch the development community closely cuz if you can run jelly bean on this thing then yeah it's it's a no-brainer you get this instead of the nexus 7 although it's possible the Nexus 7 has better web browsing performance because it's got a quad Ford quad-core Tegra 3 we'll have to see very interesting device so far the hardware huge steps up from what you got in the original kinder kindle fire and it's only 199 bucks we'll have more on this coming soon if you left this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching and just a real quick programming note on sep tember 24th pocket now is gonna be starting a new series in collaboration with tiny galaxy called the android toolbox it's going to be a six-part series it's going to cover the most basic and essential things that you need to know as an Android user how to get multimedia on your device how to customize your phone how to use your android phone to control your home if you're into home automation and a lot of other really cool stuff i'm going to be doing the entire six part series and it's going to be a great value for people that are just starting off with android or that I've had and Android for a while and just want to get the most out of it so look for that series starting on sep tember 24th you