The streamlined interface isn't Amazon's only accomplishment here it has added several new features to further set apart the Fire HD from other tablets. I would have loved to see a more elegant solution that allows carousel options to always be available onscreen. After entering a content tab, you can't travel directly to another and must instead tap back and choose a new selection. Also, as streamlined as the interface is, at times it serves only to illustrate how much better it could be. The interface can be sluggish at times and the screen isn't as responsive or as precise as it could be it sometimes fails to react to taps.
Settings are now laid out in a much more efficient manner and provide more options. Apps can be removed from the carousel at will and/or added to favorites, which appear at the bottom of the screen, negating the need to scroll through your entire catalog to find the app you want. The carousel interface is still here, but scrolls faster and looks smoother, with app icons rendered in higher-resolution, less pixel-y forms. Images and text are sharper thanks to the higher resolution and higher contrast of the screen. It's sleeker, more streamlined, and feels more mature, eschewing the toylike quality the original had.
Thankfully, if you own the original Fire (or pretty much any Micro-USB-to-power adapter) its charger should be compatible with the Kindle Fire HD.Īmazon has completely redesigned the Kindle Fire's interface. While the tablet will charge when connected to a plugged-in computer, it will do so very slowly and only when asleep.
The bezel itself is surrounded by an outer plastic shell for added protection.įor some strange, ill-conceived reason, Amazon chose not to include an actual power adapter with the Kindle Fire HD and instead supplied only a Micro-USB-to-USB cable. In the middle of the top portion of the bezel sits a 720p Web chat camera with a nearly invisible ambient light sensor sitting to its left. The tablet is dark gray and looks fairly plain, with a tabletwide black strip on the back as the only real distinguishing aesthetic trait. Beveled bottoms have the power to make a tablet look thinner than it actually is, but while the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch is thinner than the Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, its bevels aren't quite as successful at making it look as thin as the others. From the Nexus 7 to the iPad, and Microsoft's Surface tablet, beveled bottoms are to 2012 what legitimately thin form factors were to 2011. 0.78 (power button side), 0.6 opposite sideīeveled bottoms are the new hotness - for tablets, anyway.
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