The carousel style interface works well with apps and media all mixed in together. The screen is 1280 x 800 pixels, giving 216 ppi, which might not be as detailed as some, but the display is good and bright with rich colours that aren’t over-saturated. On powering up, Fire OS looks as good as ever, even on the 7″ display. Regardless of what the benchmarks say, the HD 7’s performance in the hand was great. As a result, it scores 766 in single core and 1483 for multicore in Geek Bench 3, putting its performance close to the 2013 Nexus 7 (and much better than the 2012 one). Performance-wise, the Fire HD 7 has a 1.5 GHz quad-core processor, with two 1.5 GHz cores and two 1.2 GHz cores. Even though the back cover does have a matte texture, it’s not that grippy, so I’d be investing in some kind of case. The rear camera is 2 MP and the front camera is VGA, which seems a bit under-specced for a 2014 tablet but it does record HD video. There’s also a large Amazon logo emblazoned in the middle of the back and not everyone will like the plastic back, though it’s largely a matter of personal taste. Round the back, there’s the rear camera and stereo speakers. The front has the main screen and a front-facing camera, on the top side there’s the power button, micro-USB port and the headphone port, and on the left there’s a volume rocker. Giving the HD 7 a once over, there’s not much to poke at. Setting the figures to one side, the HD7 feels….fun. I think it would be fair to call the Fire HD 7 as chunky – it’s a little over a 1 cm thick and weighs in at 337g, which specs it very closely to the Nebut it looks a bit bigger – there’s a bit of trickery going on in that Google devices have narrow chrome bands with curved backs which make them look thinner than they are. This review unit (courtesy of Amazon) came with a US charger but I imagine that chargers will be supplied according to local requirements.įrom the very start the Fire HD 7 is a little bit different from the average tablet with a choice of five different colours – black, white, cobalt, magenta and citron – and obviously this is the white version. In the box there’s the tablet, a travel charger and a USB charging cable. On review here, is the Fire HD 7 tablet, Amazon’s offering in the 7″ market. Not only did Amazon bump the spec with the refresh, they bumped the Kindle moniker too, reserving that for the ereaders. Amazon has continued to push their Fire tablet range and the fourth generation of the Fire tablets came out in September 2014. Back in February 2014, I reviewed the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 and I was impressed with Amazon’s top-of-the range tablet.
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