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what's up guys it's Lou from unbox therapy and we're finally getting a look at the Kindle Fire this is a very bare-bones unboxing from the looks of this box I had to pick this up in the States because I'm in the Toronto area and this item is not released here yet so I had it shipped to a warehouse right off the border and I went ahead and picked it up there so a little bit different than some of the other acquisition processes for other unboxers here on YouTube I put a little bit more effort in for you guys as you guys noticed the unboxing is very bare-bones we've got the little instruction card not even a manual and the Kindle Fire itself which feels a lot like a BlackBerry PlayBook and then we've got the power adapter again just wrapped in a little bit of paper not even a twist tie so anyways yeah I guess they're really trying to be nice to the environment here you get a micro USB charger which is always a welcome style of charger definitely no proprietary bullcrap here so here is the Kindle Fire the long-awaited Kindle Fire and as I mentioned earlier it feels a lot like a BlackBerry PlayBook if you've held one of those the form factor is incredibly similar and even the fit and finish like the materials in use they're almost identical so I don't know if they're sharing the same components and supplier or what but it's got a matte finish on the backside and really very little branding just this embedded Kindle logo here on the back and not much else so you can definitely be discreet carrying this baby around you've got stereo speakers along top I assume they're meant to be used in in portrait mode because of the way that they're arranged but obviously you're still going to be able to hear in landscape mode just won't have that stereo effect and on the bottom of the unit we got our power button our micro USB charging port and of course the headphone port the power button gives you some feedback via an LED that'll turn to orange when you're charging the device as well so nice to have as you get the device powered up you'll get into this setup screen here first thing you're gonna have to do is hook up to your network just like any tablet or laptop these days I'll spare you guys the boring part and get right into the initial setup here and as you guys can see it basically gives you some instructions on what does what and it's pretty easy to operate you've got a settings bar up along top before accessing some of the different settings it looks like your apps are gonna live on these bookshelves down here and your recent items live on the top bookshelf so let's go ahead and launch the web browser this is just the unboxing not the review so I'm just gonna give you guys a feel around the device the keyboard is actually quite snappy and responsive very easy to type in portrait mode your hands can obviously very easily reach to the center of the screen to access the keyboard and the web browser by default for unbox therapy launches the mobile version but the embedded videos on unbox therapy com are actually functioning so you can click the play button so the it looks like YouTube embedded videos around the web are gonna function just fine on this device and after we launch the standard view of unbox therapy calm the full heavyweight site with the ads and all the rest of it you'll notice that the embedded videos function there as well so that's a good sign it means that you're gonna be able to watch YouTube content there isn't a youtube app natively installed so that's important but you will get the mobile version of the YouTube app or even the desktop version if you choose to go there you'll notice it looks like flash ads are running on my web page as well in the top right corner you'll notice that ad is moving around so it looks like it's supported although I'm not sure I hadn't read much about that so the only one of the only concerns is that there's no hardware volume button and said you've got a control that via this slider right here in the software so you can't quickly adjust volume as easily as you could with Hardware buttons that's one of the only issues I see immediately now I actually like this device so far me and obviously I haven't had much time to play with it but I like that the design is understated everything is matte black and the form factor is nice too I mean I think 7-inch tablets are real nice sort of compromise between you know your smartphone and a gigantic tablet anyway guys if you enjoyed this content hopefully you can like and favorite this video as it does help me out a bunch and if you haven't checked out my channel yet please go ahead and do so and hey if you want to do one better than click that subscribe button and we'll do this more often anyway guys I want to thank you as always for watching it's your guy's viewership that makes this content possible I'll see you around the channel later