Quote Originally Posted by penagate View Post
No-one's mentioned the display?

For me the main attraction of the Kindle was always the "e-paper" display — it's so much nicer to read from than an LCD. One of the best places to read a book is outdoors in the sun: impossible with an LCD display.
I haven't used or even seen a 'Fire', but from what I've read, it seems that Amazon took the Kindle, added some tablet functions, and threw away its best feature, so that what they are left with is a device which fits into quite a different market space in which they are some way behind the competition. Curious strategy really.
If you want to read the Fire in the sun, you need to buy one of those plastic thingies that will fit over the screen. It is nowhere close to the ePaper display, but it is a workaround.

I suppose that's what tablets offer in general: workarounds for things that you can do much more easily using devices meant for that.

Browsing the internet, playing games, clicking photos, reading books, watching movies and checking your mail.

All of these activities can be done on the tablet, but your experience will be adequate.

If you want to have an enhanced experience, play games on the XBox or the PS3, click photos using a SLR, read books on the original Kindle or a real book, watch a movie in a cinema hall and browse the internet and check your mail on the desktop.