Kindle Fire

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The names Kindle Fire and Fire Tablet refer to product lines of tablet computers that are manufactured and sold by Amazon.com .

history

The fourth version of the Kindle - e-reader since 28 September 2011 in the US Amazon also introduced the tablet computer before Kindle Fire, which was delivered in the US from 15 November 2011th The Kindle Fire was significantly cheaper than the competitor iPad , but also only had a smaller 7-inch display and was not equipped with a camera or microphone, which made it impossible to use some services such as video telephony . A larger model with an 8.9-inch screen has been available in Germany since March 13, 2013.

With the Kindle Fire, Amazon introduced a new web browser technology: Amazon Silk . The functions of the browser are outsourced to the Amazon cloud technology EC2 in order to increase speed. Amazon calls the principle split browsing. All internet access by the browser is therefore carried out through an Amazon platform. The Kindle Fire uses a modified version of Google's Android as the operating system, which Amazon has adapted to the requirements of the device. As a result, there is no access to the Google Play Store, but Amazon's own Amazon Appstore is used.

In September 2014, the nomenclature was changed so that the tablet computers can do without the Kindle brand name and are only called Fire.

operating system

The operating system of the devices is Fire OS , an adaptation of the Android operating system .

equipment

Amazon Kindle Fire

Currently (as of July 17, 2019) amazon.de lists the following three devices in a comparison table:

model Display size resolution Storage space
Fire 7 17.7 cm (7 inches) 1024 × 600 (171 ppi ) 16 or 32 GB
Fire HD 8 20.3 cm (8 inches) 1280 × 800 (189 ppi) 16 or 32 GB
Fire HD 10 25.6 cm (10.1 inches) 1920 × 1200 (224 ppi) 32 or 64 GB

reception

The Kindle Fire's Silk web browser technology generally logs URLs , IP addresses and MAC addresses to Amazon's servers for up to 30 days. Data protectionists see this as an intrusion into the privacy of users.

Individual evidence

  1. Kindle in the US Amazon Shop, accessed September 28, 2011.
  2. Focus Online: Amazon brings iPad competition and new e-book readers
  3. Konrad Lischka: Kindle Fire HD 8.9 in the test: Amazon's medium format tablet can do that. Reported by Spiegel online on March 13, 2013.
  4. Introducing Amazon Silk. Amazon.com, Sept. 28, 2011.
  5. Amazon Silk: Cloud browser for the Kindle Fire at www.netzwelt.de
  6. Amazon Kindle Fire: An overview of the iPad killer ( memento of November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on plonki.com
  7. Amazon changes its name to Kindle , AllesEbook, accessed September 21, 2014.
  8. Fire tablets compared to Amazon.de, accessed October 2, 2017
  9. Amazon Silk Terms & Conditions . amazon.com. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  10. Silk-Browser worries about data protection officers on spiegel.de