Amazon taunts Apple's new iPads, advertises smaller Kindle Fire HDX as 'lighter than Air'

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  • Reply 21 of 139
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    Originally Posted by Sedicivalvole View Post

     

    All this does is make Amazon look cheap in my eyes.


     

    I left Amazon behind when they started redirecting searches for "iPad" to their kindle pages. Most of my online shopping is done elsewhere these days.

  • Reply 22 of 139
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    Originally Posted by gotApple View Post



    Didn't know about this Kindle Fire HDX before, thanks for the tip! Is has 2x the CPU power these A7 iPads have, and a better resolution than Retina, and a 8MP camera as well. And it's lighter on the wallet than iPad Air / iPad Mini Retina.



    LOL, gonna pick one Fire HDX up really soon!

    If you're buying based on numbers on a spec sheet.... go for it.  Feel free to not report back on your experiences.  I think you'll be right at home on the Android message boards where you can spend all day posting your awesome benchmark scores.

  • Reply 23 of 139
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    Originally Posted by Pooch View Post





    well, that and the fact there are fewer apps shipped with it, making it that much lighter ... but i'll leave the exact math to you.

     

    64 bits is a good balance. If the iPad Air had a 65 or 66-bit processor it would add even more weight. I'm glad they didn't include the any large graphics files either. Once you load a couple books on the Kindle, wow man, sack of rocks. Let's do a real comparison here.

  • Reply 24 of 139
    mjtomlinmjtomlin Posts: 2,689member

    Pretty stupid to compare the weight of two devices when they aren't even the same size.

     

    Of course, the iPod touch weighs only 3 ounces, so not sure what Amazon is carrying on about?

  • Reply 25 of 139
    If you could get stock Android on the HDX, it would be a much more compelling product at a much better price. The construction is even fantastic. The consumer is seriously winning when a vendor sells products near cost, and profits off the services. The services model is superior.
  • Reply 26 of 139
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,927member
    id4nnyzz wrote: »
    I wish apple has something up its sleeve for the first half of 2014, not like this year that they waited till summer and im betting they do have something to show us and other companies to copy.

    Who says they don't? But they just refreshed a while bunch of things in the last month.
    gotapple wrote: »
    Didn't know about this Kindle Fire HDX before, thanks for the tip! Is has 2x the CPU power these A7 iPads have, and a better resolution than Retina, and a 8MP camera as well. And it's lighter on the wallet than iPad Air / iPad Mini Retina.

    LOL, gonna pick one Fire HDX up really soon!

    That's nice.
  • Reply 27 of 139
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    Originally Posted by Crowley View Post

     

     

    64 bits weigh twice as much as 32 bits, right?




    Man, those bits are really heavy stuff! <img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />

    Anyway, both are good tablets. It really is incredible how fast the technology advances!

  • Reply 28 of 139

    These advertisements from Microsoft and Amazon taking shots at Apple are pretty pathetic. They are completely misleading. The Surface advertisement claims the iPad doesn't have a keyboard. What they don't tell you is the Surface actually doesn't come with a keyboard. Those advertisements also don't tell you the 32gb Surface really only comes with 15gb of space out of the box. Now Amazon is taking a jab at Apple advertising a smaller tablet is lighter then the bigger iPad Air tablet. Pathetic!

  • Reply 29 of 139
    Well Amazon the iPad Air is on the larger size of tablets (full sized tablets) and your Kindle Fire HDX is barely on the smaller side along with the iPad Mini, when Apple announced the iPad Air yesterday they said its the lightest full sized tablet in the world. And plus who would want a 'Android' tablet that doesn't run stock Android?
  • Reply 30 of 139
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    Originally Posted by ScottWilson View Post



    If you could get stock Android on the HDX, it would be a much more compelling product at a much better price. The construction is even fantastic. The consumer is seriously winning when a vendor sells products near cost, and profits off the services. The services model is superior.

    Can you not load any Android app on Amazon tablets? There must be a way to jailbreak it.

  • Reply 31 of 139
    flaneurflaneur Posts: 4,526member
    jungmark wrote: »
    Who says they don't? But they just refreshed a while bunch of things in the last month.
    That's nice.

    Off topic: Can you explain how we can read your posts if you're banned? And why you got banned in the first place?

    It's awful reading your post and responding when you have that big "b" around your neck. /s
  • Reply 32 of 139
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    Originally Posted by gotApple View Post



    Didn't know about this Kindle Fire HDX before, thanks for the tip! Is has 2x the CPU power these A7 iPads have, and a better resolution than Retina, and a 8MP camera as well. And it's lighter on the wallet than iPad Air / iPad Mini Retina.



    LOL, gonna pick one Fire HDX up really soon!

    Good, go enjoy your incredibly cheap plastic piece of crap. Make sure the door hits you on the way out.

  • Reply 33 of 139
    Anyway, both are good tablets. It really is incredible how fast the technology advances!.i prefer both of them
  • Reply 34 of 139
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    Originally Posted by NelsonX View Post

     

    Can you not load any Android app on Amazon tablets? There must be a way to jailbreak it.


     

    Somebody usually figures out a way. All the previous Fire tablets have been rooted, and somebody got stock Android for it so you could have the vastly better Google Play store. But to my knowledge, nobody has figured this one out yet. That, and we aren't talking about the same kind of user experience. Running some hacked/root/jailbroken nonsense. I've done it in the past, and I just don't bother anymore. It's not worth the tears and trouble. 

  • Reply 35 of 139
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  • Reply 36 of 139

    They still make the Kindle Fire?

  • Reply 37 of 139
    Originally Posted by prasad99777

    OHH!! Apple Iphone6 to feature wireless charging check this image

     

    Hey. Worthless imbecile. Get run over by a Google self-driving car. Stop making accounts here. Stop your spam. You want the law brought down on you?

  • Reply 38 of 139
    pazuzupazuzu Posts: 1,728member
    When watching a 16:9 movie the image is actually [I]larger[/I] on a Kindle- right?.
  • Reply 39 of 139
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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post



    In response to Apple's new iPads, Amazon took a direct shot at its competitor on the front page of its website Wednesday, saying the Kindle Fire HDX is "lighter than Air" --?even though the new Kindle achieves that weight with a smaller display.

     
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    The advertisement is a not-so-subtle jab at Apple's new iPad Air, which shaves nearly a half-pound off the weight of its predecessor to drop to just one pound.



    While the Kindle Fire HDX weighs in at 0.82 pounds for the $379 Wi-Fi-only model, it achieves that weight with a screen size of just 8.9 inches. Apple's iPad Air, in contrast, has a larger 9.7-inch Retina display with more screen real estate.



    Both devices are also unsurprisingly heavier than Apple's new iPad mini with Retina display, which sports a 7.9-inch screen. Apple's smallest tablet weighs 0.73 pounds in its Wi-Fi-only variety.



    Amazon also offers a 7-inch version of its Kindle Fire HDX tablet. It too edges the Retina iPad mini in weight, at just 0.66 pounds, but also sports a screen size nearly a full inch smaller diagonally in the process.

     

     

    No iOS ecosystem

    No Apple build quality

    No Apple attention to detail

    No sale.

  • Reply 40 of 139
    gotapple wrote: »
    Didn't know about this Kindle Fire HDX before, thanks for the tip! Is has 2x the CPU power these A7 iPads have, and a better resolution than Retina, and a 8MP camera as well. And it's lighter on the wallet than iPad Air / iPad Mini Retina.

    LOL, gonna pick one Fire HDX up really soon!
    Lol! Lighter in every way possible, including how much use people actually get out of them!
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