Kindle fire Hardware & Software
Kindle fire Hardware & Software
The Fire employs a 1 GHz
Texas Instruments OMAP
4430 dual-core processor. The display is a 7 inches (180 mm)
multi-touch color screen with a 600×1024 pixel resolution. Connectivity
is through
802.11n Wi-Fi and
USB 2.0
(Micro-B connector). The device includes 8 GB of internal storage —
said to be enough for 80 applications, plus either 10 movies or 800
songs or 6,000 books.
According to Amazon's list of technical details, the Kindle Fire's 4400
mAh battery sustains up to 8 hours of consecutive reading and up to 7.5 hours of video playback with wireless off.
Of the 8GB internal storage, 6GB is available for content.
Software
The Kindle Fire runs a customized
Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS.
Along with access to
Amazon Appstore,
the Fire includes a cloud-accelerated "split browser",
Amazon Silk, using
Amazon EC2 for off-device cloud computation; including webpage layout and rendering, and Google's
SPDY protocol for faster webpage content transmission.
The user's Amazon digital content is given free storage in the
Amazon Cloud's web-storage platform,
and a built-in email application allows webmail (
Gmail,
Yahoo!,
Hotmail,
AOL Mail, etc.) to be merged into one inbox.
The subscription-based
Amazon Prime, which includes unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows, is available with a free trial period.
The current version of the Kindle Fire OS as of January 18, 2012 is 6.2.2_user_3205220.
Content formats supported are
Kindle Format 8 (KF8),
Kindle Mobi (
.azw),
TXT,
PDF, unrestricted
MOBI, PRC natively,
Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)),
DOC,
DOCX,
JPEG,
GIF,
PNG,
BMP, non-DRM
AAC,
MP3,
MIDI,
OGG,
WAV,
MP4,
VP8.
Some users of the Kindle Fire report having problems with
Wi-Fi, including inability to connect and disconnections.
Because of Amazon's USB
driver implementation, The Kindle fire suffers from slow USB transfer speeds.
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