Being able to toss a 16GB microSD card loaded with MP4s into the tablet is awesome, and having a full VLC player onboard makes it an eminently useful device. I'm using it mostly to watch videos during my commute (I take Metro from the westside into Pasadena every day, about an hour on trains each way). But if you are okay (especially at the price point) with the hardware, and have a software stack that works for you, you really can’t beat the price. Amazon’s Silk browser crashes a lot, and things that should have been easy (attaching a screenshot to a GMail message) reliably crashed apps completely. And the software is rough around the edges.
The build quality is nowhere near Apple’s (case in point, the screen isn't seamlessly bonded like on an iOS device, and my first Fire had dust trapped between the glass and the display) - though in fairness the price is literally 1/10th that of the cheapest iPad, so. 75 width:height ratio (for comparison, an 8.5x11" sheet of letter-sized paper has a. 6 width:height) aspect ratio I much prefer the iPad/iPad mini’s wider. Quick (general) review: The aspect ratio kind of sucks for reading. ( Amazon seems to be applying the razor/blades (a/k/a printer/ink cartridge) business model here.) Even at the normal retail price, this thing has to be a loss leader. Capacitive IPS display, 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, 8GB storage with a microSD slot that can take up to 128GB flash media, and cheap. On paper, this looks like it should be an interesting little device. During the “Black Friday” sale, I picked up the lowest end Amazon Fire tablet, the 7" model that normally retails for $49.99 (with ‘special offers’), for $34.99.
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