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Forums - General - Gizmodo: "Kindle Fire HD: Better, Faster, Cheaper—Bigger!"

Nsanity on 10 September 2012

Not bad.



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michael_stutzer on 10 September 2012
famousringo said:
michael_stutzer said:

It was based on 2.3. Pretty much every rumor indicated that this is based on Android 4. The device seems quite zippy so I think it is true.

Thanks for the correction on Android version. Doesn't seem that zippy to me, though:

That's the 7" HD version. In other benchmarks for other devices, the OMAP 4470 in the 9" Fire has roughly double the graphics performance of the 4460 in the 7" HD Fire, but the 9" device also has twice the pixels, so I wouldn't expect it to be any more performant.

I was talking about the bigger screen version but now that I've seen more extensive video reviews you're right. It is quite slow compared to a Nexus 7. Unless you put an AOSP ROM on it, it will just barely justify the price tag.