The Amazon Kindle Fire: Benchmarked, Tested, And Reviewed

12:00 AM - November 24, 2011 by Andrew Ku Table of contents 1. Meet Amazon's Kindle Fire 2. Quick Navigation Tour 3. Books And Documents: Not Quite An e-Book Reader... 4. Video And Music: Amazon Prime Members Rejoice 5. Amazon Appstore Is Not Android Market 6. The Shopping Experience: All About Amazon 7. Amazon Silk: Assisted Web Browsing (Sort Of) 8. Web Browsing: The Same Old Android Restrictions 9. TI's OMAP 4430: CPU And GPU Performance 10. An Experiment: Gaming Performance, Tegra 2-Porting 11. Storage Performance: Slightly Faster Than USB 1.0?! 12. Display Performance: IPS Confirmed 13. Display Performance Examined: Very Bright, So-So Gamut 14. Benchmark Results: Battery Life And Recharge Time 15. Benchmark Results: Real-World Performance 16. Benchmark Results: Wireless Performance 17. Awesome For Amazon Addicts 18. Appendix A: Background Information On Our Benchmarks 19. Appendix B: Notes For Kindle Fire Owners

A low price is earning Amazon's Kindle Fire a lot of press. We take a fine-tooth comb to this new tablet and turn up some surprising results. While there's a lot to like, there are also plenty of quirks. We go over the good, the bad, and the ugly.

When Amazon announced it was going to produce a tablet, we weren't surprised. At some point, everyone knew that the company would expand beyond its e-reader base and jump onto the more functional tablet bandwagon. The question was always how far, exactly, Amazon would go in bridging the divide between its popular Kindle and successful tablets like Apple's iPad 2. After using the Kindle Fire for the last week, we can say it's probably not what you were expecting.

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