Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD

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Designed with simplicity in mind, the Kindle Fire is Amazon's foray into the tablet market and arguably the most popular 7-inch tablet on the market. It has a full-color, touch screen device running the Android operating system. Similar to other tablet devices such as the iPad, but with a much smaller price tag. Another selling point is that the Kindle Fire has over 1000 illustrated children's books, including favorites like Brown Bear, Curious George, and Circus Ship so there is an additional "kid-friendly" component. The new Kindle HD models for 2012-13 also have upgraded resolutions, faster processors, and dual wi-fi antennas, giving new models a dramatic decrease in Internet browsing page upload time.  Amazon also has the largest online book collection on the Internet, as well as a large assortment of free classical books.

You can download library e-books directly to your Kindle Fire and Fire HD.

Features:

• 7-inch or 8.9-inch HD color display models
• Touch Screen
• Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi/4G LTE versions
• 8GB internal storage. Enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books (plus an additional 5GB of free cloud storage for all Amazon materials).
• 9 hours of continuous reading
  
• 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers
  
• MP3 player
• reads Kindle, TXT, PDF, MOBI, DOC...

For an quick review on the Kindle Fire check out the following. 

• Kevin Tofel's post on GigaOm where he likes it.
• This comparison with the Nook Tablet. 
  
• This Wired article that really did not like it.

For reviews on using a kid friendly tablet.

• Read Me an E-book Story ~ Wall Street Journal
• For Their Children, Many E-book Fans Insist on Paper ~ New York Times

More Questions on the basic use of your Kindle Fire? Refer to this Quick Start Guide and User's Guide fr0m Amazon.

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