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You’ll just see a “1” or a “2” or whatever, and have no idea what they are until you pull down. Notifications from any and all apps accumulate as a mere number in the top notification bar, with no sort of more informative pop-up. This isn’t quite as game-changing as the app drawer thing, but still, it’s a step towards feeling more like a grown-up tablet.įire UI still has some deficiencies of its own, though. Now, apps are getting a dedicated place to shine right on the home screen, where they belong.Īnd, like a grown-up OS, Fire 3.0 has multitasking that lets you switch not only between apps, but also books! It’s content-level, so multiple books don’t all get shoved under the same “books” app, which is smart. Before your apps drawer was accessible mainly by tapping “Apps” on the top ribbon of categories, where it lived on equal footing with things like “Audiobooks” and “Newsstand”. It’s been like a backpack as opposed to a desktop the more you put in the harder it is to get something out.īut with this new app drawer option, apps get much, much easier to access on a whim. Not in a processing power way (though sometimes also that), but organisationally. Previously, the Kindle Fire UI had sort of buckled under a heavy load of apps. Here’s a photo of my phone as a badass pirate king who is cooler than the both of us. And the built-in camera app even has some neat and dumb features to let you play with your stupid pictures.

Oh and that camera on the back? It takes lovely photographs, if you insist on using your giant tablet as a camera. And like the 7-inch, the 8.9 also boasts battery-saving extra low power states, which means that if you stay in reading mode, you can squeeze some 18 hours of life out of this thing. With our standard Nyan cat battery test, we pushed the 8.9 to just under the 12 hours of advertised life. Scrolling, gaming, swiping through your library, everything is a pleasure on this bad boy. That could be a bummer.īut aside from that hitch, we found that the Snapdragon 800 in this sucker is not weighed down by the excess pixels. Our unit was running near-final software, so that might have something to do with it, but it could also be indicative of a more stripped down app selection on the 8.9 if devs have to push updates to work on the 8.9.

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First it errored out when we tried to install it as a cloud app, and then it didn’t appear in the 8.9’s app store. A classic, graphics intensive go-to - Dead Trigger - refused to work. And when it comes to games, the 8.9 could handle Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, Temple Run, and everything else we threw at it just fine. The app carousel and all its swipey glory is still present and lovely. It helps that the sound from the speakers is, as on the 7-inch HDX, some of the best we’ve ever heard on a tablet.Įven with the bigger screen, the HDX 8.9 still zips along like a hero.

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That said, movies and TV are still utterly fantastic on the HDX 8.9, especially if you have Amazon Prime at your disposal. But while it’s got the highest pixel density of any tablet so far, at a certain point a retina screen is a retina screen you’re not going to notice that much of a difference with the naked eye.

When it comes to screen quality, it’s worth reiterating that the HDX 8.9 has the best one out there.

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There’s also an 8MP 1080p camera with an LED flash on the back now, but we urge caution in using tablets to take pictures because it makes you look stupid. That includes things we love (the inspired placement of the fantastic speakers) and things we like a little less (the weirdly recessed buttons). Other than those mostly minor differences, the design is virtually identical. And while it has more pixels to push, the 8.9 is still damn zippy. The guts powering it are the same as on the HDX though quad-core 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 with a bonus Adreno 330 GPU to back it up. Demonstrably better than anything other large tablet out there. The Kindle Fire HDX 7’s 1920×1200 323 PPI screen was terrific, but the 8.9’s 2560×1600 339 PPI screen is better. Yes, the HDX 8.9 is smaller and has a smaller display than the iPad Air or other real 10-inch tabs, which gives it a weight advantage, but it’s easily the most surprisingly light tablet I’ve laid hands on.

It makes the already featherweight 450g iPad Air feel like it’s made out of lead by comparison. At barely more than 370g, the HDX 8.9 is light.