Amazon fire hd 8.9 reviews tv#
But luckily, the US company has plenty to keep you busy.įrom streaming films, TV shows and music to reading the latest magazines and playing games – the bright, pin-sharp 8.9inch screen on the new Fire HDX handles it all expertly.
Unfortunately, at times it feels as if the Fire HDX is built to only show-off Amazon’s wealth of content. This is a tablet built to show-off the wealth of multimedia content available through Amazon. While Amazon’s hugely-successful Kindle e-reader range are designed to tempt customers into its ebook store, the Fire HDX 8.9 has much broader ambitions. This is a tablet built for landscape – even if it does make the kindle reading app look terrible. Using a Fire HDX in portrait also means the once-perfectly placed power and volume controls become awkward and hard to find. In portrait, the front-facing camera for Skype calls finds itself at thumb-height and all-too-easy to obscure and cover.Īlso holding the device with two hands means one is left cupping the slippery, glossy plastic around the rear-camera. The widescreen shape of the Fire HDX 8.9 shines in landscape with the tablet’s back-mounted volume and power buttons falling perfectly beneath your fingers and the speaker grills well out of reach.īut spin the Fire HDX into portrait and the effect isn’t anywhere near as elegant.
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