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All iPads iPad And a Kindle?
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Matte screen protectors do help. I bought one for my galaxy S4 by mistake and left it on as it makes the screen better for reading. However they take away from the clarity of the screen so wouldn't put one on my iPad. Reading on my iPad mini for short stretches is fine but for anything longer than 20 minutes I need my kindle.
Before I got any ereaders or tablets I used to read on my iPhone. I remember going on vacation in 2009 and squinting into the sun trying to read on my iPhone 3G. The next year I got my first ereader and I've never looked back.
Before I got any ereaders or tablets I used to read on my iPhone. I remember going on vacation in 2009 and squinting into the sun trying to read on my iPhone 3G. The next year I got my first ereader and I've never looked back.
How does the experience compare to the iPad? I hear it supports a browser, is it any good? What about Pocket? There is no "Kobo Store" so have to resort to folks on the inter webs.
Performance & Specs
Under the hood, the Fire HDX 8.9-inch packs a 2.2 quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM and a 400-MHz Adreno 320 graphics chip. Apple gave the iPad a superfast A7 chip with 64-bit architecture and paired it with a new M7 co-processor for motion tracking
On Geekbench 3, which measures a devices overall performance, the HDX 8.9-inch scored 2,609 on the multicore test. That showing didnt quite beat the Airs score of 2,694. On 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which measures graphics performance alone, the HDX 8.9-inch registered 12,786. But the iPad Airs 14,850 score was far better. It took the Kindle Fire HDX 692.1 milliseconds to complete the Sunspider Javascript test, which is far longer than the iPad Airs 383.5 ms.
In our experience, both devices offered a smooth experience moving from one app to another. While playing Riptide GP 2″ on both devices, we enjoyed very realistic water effects. Opening Despicable Me: Minion Rush on the iPad Air took 9 seconds, compared with 11 seconds on the Fire HDX 8.9-inch. Switching between applications took the same number of taps and was complete in about 2 seconds on each device.
WINNER: iPad Air. The Kindle Fire HDX has a very zippy CPU, but the iPad Air just performs better across the board.
Under the hood, the Fire HDX 8.9-inch packs a 2.2 quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with 2GB of RAM and a 400-MHz Adreno 320 graphics chip. Apple gave the iPad a superfast A7 chip with 64-bit architecture and paired it with a new M7 co-processor for motion tracking
On Geekbench 3, which measures a devices overall performance, the HDX 8.9-inch scored 2,609 on the multicore test. That showing didnt quite beat the Airs score of 2,694. On 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which measures graphics performance alone, the HDX 8.9-inch registered 12,786. But the iPad Airs 14,850 score was far better. It took the Kindle Fire HDX 692.1 milliseconds to complete the Sunspider Javascript test, which is far longer than the iPad Airs 383.5 ms.
In our experience, both devices offered a smooth experience moving from one app to another. While playing Riptide GP 2″ on both devices, we enjoyed very realistic water effects. Opening Despicable Me: Minion Rush on the iPad Air took 9 seconds, compared with 11 seconds on the Fire HDX 8.9-inch. Switching between applications took the same number of taps and was complete in about 2 seconds on each device.
WINNER: iPad Air. The Kindle Fire HDX has a very zippy CPU, but the iPad Air just performs better across the board.
I've got an ad air and a kindle paperwhite, I prefer to read on the kindle and I take it to work for reading at breaks and it fits in the knee pocket of my work trousers. And i use the ipad for everything else, I have air display on it so I can even use it as a monitor in a pinch
I'd call it unusable. Sure there's a browser, but I've used it once. My usage is to open a book, read a book, and repeat. For that, it's good. Koreader is a hack that does a bit nicer job of keeping the same zoom level on each page of a pdf.