Kindle Fire HDX Vs iPad Air – Should You Buy Amazon 8.9” Tablet?
Finally Amazon has taken the Kindle Fire HDX to release, which came with 9-month free financing, really amazing. However, can it really compete with the iPad Air, which is the top of an Apple tablet hierarchical? Here is a look at two tablets that you may want to get before Christmas come out.
Weight: The iPad Air is thinner than the iPad 4, now 7mm down from 9.4mm. So that the weight is also decreased too, 1 pound compared to its predecessor at 1.9 pounds. Meanwhile, the Kindle Fire HDX is 7.8mm thick and weighs 0.82 pounds. So that the iPad Air is slightly thinner than Kindle Fire HDX, but the weight is a bit heavier.
Winner: Kindle Fire HDX
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Display: The iPad Air has an 9.7 inch display comes with 2,048 x 1,536 screen resolution (264 ppi) while the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 boasts a 2,560 x 1,600 screen resolution, which whopping 339ppi. Both of them equips the IPS display, which is individually called Retina display by Apple (high-resolution IPS panels). Anyway, the iPad Air is still impressive despite these differences as colors are vibrant and the picture is crystal clear as compared to the Kindle Fire HDX.
Winner: iPad Air
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Performance: Both of them are using the best CPU that we have on the market today. The Kindle Fire HDX comes with the CPU from Qualcomm named Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, while the iPad Air comes with the A7 chip, the 64-bit chip similar to the iPhone 5S’s chip, which is one of the fastest devices on the market. Speed shouldn’t be an issue in either of these tablets. Both are top of the line for their respective companies.
Winner: Draw
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Capacity & Price: The Amazon’s tablet offers 3 options for its capacity, which are 16GB for $394, 32GB for $444, and 64GB for $494 for the WI-Fi only version. For the 4G LTE variant, pricing goes up to $494, $544, and $594, all of them are without ads versions. Meanwhile the Apple’s tablet comes with 4 options, which starts at $499 for 16GB WI-Fi only variant and the highest priced version is the 128GB LTE, which retails for $929.
Winner: Kindle Fire HDX
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Operating System: The Kindle Fire HDX ships with Fire OS 3.0 “Mojito”, which features just Amazon approved Android apps. You do not have the full Google services on the Kindle Fire HDX as many other Android tablets. While the iPad Air comes with IOS 7.0.3 and the store, which now features close 500,000 apps specifically designed for iPad.
Winner: iPad Air
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Camera: How about the cameras? Well, both of them also have a 1.2 mega-pixel front facing camera. The Kindle Fire HDX features an 8 mega-pixel rear-facing camera, while the iPad Air features a 5 mega-pixel rear-facing camera. However, for most users, both of them are average cameras only.
Winner: Draw
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Sound: The sound is worth considering when decide whether to buy the Kindle Fire HDX or the iPad Air. On the iPad, the two speakers line the bottom of the edge, which featured clear and crisp sound. While the Kindle Fire HDX comes with the dual speakers with Dolby Digital Plus technology, which sounds quite crisp but muddled sometimes.
Winner: iPad Air
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Verdict: Depend on your need, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is an amazing tablet for people who want an alternative to Apple tablets, and other Android tablets. If you’re happy with Amazon’s tablet ecosystem, then the HDX 8.9 is the best option for you. Otherwise, iPad Air is still one of the best tablet in the world right now. It’s better than the HDX on design, sound, an oprating system that have closely 1 billion apps on the Appstore nowadays.
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