![]() ![]() That’s essentially what it’s like for me: I am an Amazon Prime customer and I subscribe to Audible, the excellent Amazon audiobook service. The Amazon Fire tablets and Amazon shoppers are like positive and negative poll magnets: they attract each other, and the closer they get the more difficult it is to separate them. In my opinion it is a much more pleasant UI than the old Fire OS Carousel nonsense. The Fire OS UI has loads of Material Design and is themed with Amazon’s black and orange colours. Let me be clear, when I say Amazon, I mean Amazon Prime and Audible.įire OS is closer to Android 5 on which it is based, and many of the Amazon customisations from previous versions of Fire OS have been toned back. This is where it becomes much more obvious what this device actually is: it’s an Amazon device to make you use Amazon. Rather than have everything on a homescreen or in a drawer (like Apple and most Android launchers), apps are organised into categories and mixed with stores with suggestions. Fire OS is closer to AOSP than previous versions and the launcher has moved away from the frustrating carousel to something more similar to a grid. The Fire 2015 was one of the very first devices to run this version of the OS when it launched last year, and it has since rolled out to some of the older tablets too. The browser (Silk), email client, Appstore and core apps are all Amazon’s own. This is Amazon’s Android (AOSP) based OS, based on Android 5.x Lollipop, which lacks all Google services. If you use a recent Amazon Fire tablet you should now be running Fire OS 5. At that price? Nothing to complain about really. So the specifications are nothing exciting in 2015 (or 2016). Micro USB connectivity for charging and data.2MP rear-facing camera + VGA front-facing camera.8GB internal storage expandable (up to 128GB) via MicroSD.What does £49.99 get you? It’s more than just the specs, so bear with me as we go through this review. I’ll attempt to do just that, and leave the editorial piece on where Amazon is going to another day. This review of the Fire tablet is more than just a simple review, as it involves attempting to explain the whole Amazon Fire ecosystem. ![]() Relatively inexpensive, you can purchase one for £49.99 from Amazon. The 2015 Amazon Fire is a 7” tablet running on Amazon’s Android (AOSP) based Fire OS. When they released the first one in 2011, the first model was actually called Kindle Fire, but since then the Everything Company has split the Fire tablets and devices away from Kindle and they are now their own product category. I almost lost it recently, which spurred me to complete this review and let you know what I think of it.Īmazon has been doing Fire tablets for years now. The device reviewed was purchased with my own pocket money, from Amazon, and has travelled with me many many miles. I’ve been testing this for a while now, and after many months of heavy use, here is my review of Amazon’s inexpensive tablet computer. This is the review of the Amazon Fire (2015). ![]()
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