A Kindle Fire Review For Those Who Plan To Void the Warranty

The mixed reviews so far available for the new Amazon Fire tablet mostly address the Fire in its intended role as a locked-down portal through which to buy and consume ready-made content from Amazon. New submitter terracode writes with a different kind of review, which "goes into depth on the Kindle Fire's hardware, and provides details on how to root and tweak the tablet." The article also provides a friendly chart comparing the hardware in the Fire to that of the Nook Color and the iPad 2.

Comments

WTF: Why not compare the nook Tablet?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is fine, but it says that the nook Color is the Kindle Fire's closest competitor. The nook Tablet is now, and it has a helluva lot more horsepower than the Kindle Fire. (And a better looking body...) So it makes me wonder what kind of kool-aid this reviewer is drinking. Particularly since the nook is by far the most hack friendly device mass produced in years!

The real question:

[pecosdave]

Will the Nook tablet run the Kindle app?

What if you hack it?

Re:It's kinda scary

[nadaou]

> Not everyone, believe it or not, is able to produce useful English marketing text.

yeah, but it makes you question their overall commitment to quality, and the level of frustration you might face if you need to interact with them for support one day.

my old rule of thumb was: buy a no-name product from a known-good-name company, or buy a known-good-name product from a no-name company. No-name product from a no-name company is just asking for trouble, and a Good-name product from a Good-name company is fine if you don't mind paying more than you probably had to.