TechCrunch.com offers a mixed, but mostly positive, review of the new Kindle Fire.
The newest Kindle e-reader from Amazon.com (AMZN) on sale, with its Google (GOOG) Android system, has a color touch screen and sells for $199.� It doesn’t compete with the iPad from Apple (AAPL), says Erick Schonfeld, a self-described “Apple Fan Boy” and Editor at TechCrunch.com.
In its Fly or Die video review, Schonfeld madly scratches on the thing, playing the Fruit Ninja game, and says the new Kindle can handle all his basic digital media consumption needs from music to apps.
“I don’t think of it as a competitor to Apple …. it doesn’t really stack up to the iPad, but it also doesn’t have to either,” Schonfeld says.
TechCrunch Gadgets Editor John Biggs says he wishes Kindle Fire had more storage so he could do more offline, like watch more movie selections on a plane. Without WiFi he says, no access to the cloud means no access to what you want from Netflix (NFLX) etc.
Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal personal tech guru, thinks of the Kindle as a hardware front-end to cloud content,� “a good�though not a great�product and a very good value…”
“The Kindle Fire is much less capable and versatile than the entry-level $499 iPad 2. It has a fraction of the apps, a smaller screen, much weaker battery life, a slower Web browser, half the internal storage and no cameras or microphone. It also has a rigid and somewhat frustrating user interface far less fluid than Apple’s. But the Fire has some big things going for it. First, the $199 price … the brand … [and] a large, famous, easy-to-use content ecosystem that sells music, video, books and periodicals …”
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