Considering getting a Kindle Fire HD for my wife for Xmas. Yeah, I know, I'm running out of time. Does anyone here own one? Thoughts on it? Is the "Amazone Prime" subscription worthwhile? Is the extra $$$ for the HD worth it, or even for the basic Fire over the standard book reader? The Fire is $159, the Fire HD is $199 and a basic reader is $69.
You might want to reconsider as the fires are completely sold out to the best of my knowledge on Amazon.
I ordered on for the wife a few weeks back and we are still waiting on it.
I was looking at them earlier. Staples of all places were showing stock on the $199 ones for pick-up in-store only.
I can't answer of your questions though and I passed on the purchase myself because I am too damn lazy to drive to staples on my lunch.
I would consider a Kindle Fire and the standard Kindle two different things. I wouldn't like reading on an LCD after spending so many hours a day already staring at one. I have a Kindle (the ePaper b&w kind) and love it.
No answers on the other questions. Check the Amazon Prime video selection - it's not that great yet and some of the stuff that's "available" costs extra beyond the Prime subscription.
I have never used an HD but we snagged a standard fire on black Friday for 129 and I really like it from the little I played with it. The screen is fine to me, it is comparable to my HP Touchpad. If all the difference is in the screen I would say the normal one, assuming you can find it.
Well, we have Amazon Prime but that's because I order a lot of books, CDs and other "stuff" from them, so the saving on postage is generally worth it. I very occasionally use their streaming video but that's not really one of the prime (errr....) usages and I wouldn't really want to pay for Prime to get instant video.
having a e-reader Kindle and the wifey with the HD for her recent birthday... the e-reader is the best for reading. the HD comes closer with the hi-res for reading over the regular kindle Fire. She's a prime member as well, so she watches plenty of the streaming stuff. plus, since we already had a roku, she's already amassed a library of movies/tv shows with her prime acc't. so that works out fine. she still rents/buys SD shows, though; there's usually a significant price differential between SD and HD material.
As she travels a lot for work, it's been great for her. the smaller form factor plus the front camera for skype have been big plus's for her. plus she can watch something else other than hotel TV.
I got my wife's hand-me-down Kindle Fire when she got the new one like the day it came out.
(Disclaimer: despite sitting in front of a PC driving SolidWorks every day and designing lab robots I don't know berkeley-all about dicking w/ PCs and tablets and such)
When she got it, and the new one, she immediately "rooted" it and installed an Android OS, so it works essentially like my "Droid phone.
As a luddite paper book+newspaper enthusiast, I love the damn thing. I check out ebooks from my municipal public library online, the appear magically in my Amazon account, which equally magically puts them in my magical Kindle electrical reader-book.
i've got a kindle touch (real e-reader)... some time last year I bought my wife a kindle fire...
she reads a bit on it... I can't stand reading on it... but it gets used mostly as a tablet... internet surfing, games etc... I plan on rooting it here soon with jellybean on it... make it a proper tablet.
I personally don't like reading on it... and as a tablet it's kind of suck... installing a good version of android on it should make it much better...
I'd pick up a google nexus myself... price is right and plenty powerful and it's a real tablet... can read kindle or nook books on it, can watch movies from netflix or hulu on it etc...
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