Wednesday 5 September 2012

Kindle Fire in Canada

Among all other Kindle variants, Kindle Fire is the only device that doesn’t feature e-Ink. It is that technology that made Kindle excel. It is that piece of feature that book readers came to love about Kindle that brought to its success. And finally, it is that e-Ink that makes it incomparable to iPad and comparing them is a big mistake.

But Kindle Fire is different. It is built using Android system. Therefore, there is reason enough to compare it with iPad.

I recently got hold of a Kindle Fire in Canada and let me share with you my 3 days of playing with it and compare it with iPad.

Price Factor

I don’t know about other people who said that Kindle Fire is a threat to iPad when it comes to market share. It is maybe because of the price factor. Kindle Fire is currently sold in the US for $199 while iPad 2 costs $399.

If you are getting a device that costs less, you cannot expect that you’ll get the same advantage and the same features that you would get from the more expensive one. There is a good reason why iPad costs higher. It is because they aim to provide you with a lot of convenience making your browsing a great experience.

With that in mind, you should expect that if you decide on purchasing Kindle Fire base on its price, you’ll get fewer features and less convenience.

But to say that Kindle Fire will not satisfy anyone is not right. If you can settle for the way that it is built, I find no reason why you should not be happy owning a Kindle Fire for a device that’s affordable enough.

Kindle Fire in Canada

If you go to Amazon website, Kindle Fire features the following:

1. Color touchscreen

2. A nice and easy interface

3. Fast dual core processor which makes it capable of streaming music while you are browsing or reading

4. Whispersync which synchronizes your reading activities, and video streaming across your devices

5. Favorite free apps and games

6. Music library

7. Instant streaming of TV shows and popular movies

8. All other features that you are getting from other variants of Kindle but the e-Ink.

Since Amazon is not releasing Kindle Fire in Canada, you will not be able to use all features above. If you happen to be in the US and decides on purchasing Kindle Fire from there, download all apps and games that you think you will need. They will all work in Canada. But if you are already in Canada, you cannot download anymore apps using your Canadian credit card. You got to have an American credit card to do it. It comes with pre-installed apps like Pulse, ESPN, Weather Channel, Facebook, and Quick Office though.

Kindle Fire in Canada will not also allow you to download the free apps which is pretty annoying for other people since it is something that you can do on other Android-based devices.

That being said, I strongly suggest to those who are thinking of getting Kindle Fire in Canada through any other means to wait until Amazon officially launch it to the International market to enjoy its full benefits.

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