I do it all the time. In fact, this post is coming to you from My kindle as we speak. (um, post)
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After reading some buyer comments about the Fire at Amazon some have pointed out a security flaw, that anyone who picks up the Fire, a friend, co-worker or a thief can immediately access you Amazon account.
Went to town and again looked at the regular Kindle and some other pads like the Galaxy and the Xoom, the display Ipad I could not figure out how to work, I tried swiping, tapping, turning and it just would not cooperate. Either it was locked up or it requires some sort of blood or sperm sample first for ID.
I think this is a temporary fad, I will just get a decent laptop, those are being ignored big time and the prices are falling.
I expect these pads will do an advanced cascade advancement pretty quick,by next year there should be some improvements. I remember saving all my limited funds years ago to buy the top of the line PC at 700mhz or something, cost me $2,000, of course a decent cellphone can do that or better for a lot lot less. And it was obsolete in less than 6 months.
So as I see it the Fire has a poorly positioned power switch, gets too hot where you hold it, cannot easily transfer photos and has a limited capacity, also when viewing a widescreen movie the image is distorted. And then it also supposedly is too open security wise.
Just because its a cheap tablet does not mean I am going to run with the herd on this, I believe it needs to go through another phase to address these and other issues.
Sorry if I sound like a person that hates technology, far from it, but over the years I am totally turned off buying anything new and cutting edge, worst was when I bought the latest and most expensive Toshiba laptop at $3,100, and two months later some chocolate milk spilt on the keyboard it killed it, absolutely killed it, I still have it as a door stop to remind me of my lunacy to never ever repeat the same mistake. No its not for sale, it could be repaired eventually.
It sounds like a lot of people are happy with it, I do not have any wi-fi in my house that I can think of, I am currently in rural Alaska, on dial-up only, too expensive to get anything else and it does just fine, the Fire not having 3-G seems to be another issue. It requires me to drive to civilization, more fuel costs.
Thanks folks but sorry, I’m passing on the Fire, I really was wanting to get one but after putting a pair of darker glasses on and reading the specs its too immature I think.