The Kindle Fire uses a variation of Android 2.3, with its own mostly unique interface I say “mostly” because every so often, in the Web browser or in messages that popped up, I saw hints of the Kindle Fire’s Android roots. The video player is solely for Amazon purchased or streamed content, and the device has no image gallery for showcasing your favorite snaps.Īnother limitation may be apps. You can sideload content of your own, but you’ll also have to shop for your own apps to play that content. Yes, device media management has the potential to become quite tiresome over time–though just how tiresome is impossible to say until we have working devices in our hands. Forget taking the whole five seasons of Babylon 5 with you wherever you go, let alone carrying lots of video if your device is also packed with music.
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Surprisingly I got multiple different answers from Amazon execs when I asked them how much space a typical 2-hour movie takes up: The most intelligible of the answers suggested that up to 20 movies could reside on the device at once, but the reply clearly means that, as you amass your digital media collection, you’ll need to make hard decisions about what you want to have on your Kindle Fire and when you should have it–not unlike the quandary over what should stay on your DVR.
That isn’t a lot of space for the kind of content I can easily envision consumers clamoring to use with the tablet.
For starters, it ships with just 8GB of memory.
The Kindle Fire is limited in several meaningful ways.