No smoke here - just an Amazon Kindle Fire: combined e-reader and tablet pc in one light-weight, very portable package. The Fire tablet is the latest addition to Amazon's Kindle collection of e-readers, only in full color, faster, and with a better display.
E-readers are a great convenience, as you can access multiple books - hundreds - digitally, without carrying around stacks of books - much easier on the back and shoulder! They're small and will easily fit in a purse.
About the size of a large paperback, and light enough to hold in one hand, e-readers allow you easy digital access to PDF files and Word documents as well as your favorite magazines, books, or newspapers without packing them around. The Fire tablet/e-reader weighs less than 1 pound! Contrast that with the laptop you've been lugging around the country while traveling, along with the latest dime store novel (well "best seller" novel anyway), and you can see why these digital entertainment devices are in high demand.
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The Amazon Kindle Fire e-reader also has an improved viewing angle of 178 degrees, making it easier to share magazine articles, You Tube videos, or business data with more people, since it's capable of being seen from the side. This is an excellent feature of the new Fire tablet.
The Kindle Fire screen is lit so that you can read in bright sunlight or pitch dark - say when you are camping and have to finish the novel you are engrossed in. You can not only mark your spot, but even highlight passages - for research or business or school - and make notations.
E-readers can save you time and money. While you may still appreciate the feel of a good book in the hand, with an Amazon Kindle Fire, literally thousands of books are available for instant download, there's no more waiting for a book you ordered online to arrive, or having to drive to a bookstore.
There are huge bundles or packages of books and movies, literally thousands that you can access for free. For as low as , you can download as many books and movies as your Kindle Fire will hold - 6 gigabytes will hold a LOT of books, movies, apps, and documents! - And there are multiple bundled options to choose from, all easily and quickly downloadable though the built in WI-Fi.
Cloud Accelerated Browsing (Amazon's web browser is called "Amazon Silk") means faster web browsing, when you are not using Kindle Fire as an e-reader. Most web browsers pull a 100 pieces of information from 15 different servers on the web to render (show) the information you see on a webpage. The browser anticipates your next click by pre-downloading the most popular links on a page into the Fire's on board memory. When you click on a link, chances are good that the page is already there and it will load quickly.
The way the Amazon Web Services Cloud works, the "cloud" will stack and push pieces of gathered information, so it takes far less time to render the images that you see when you go to a website. That is how Silk is a faster web browser than most traditional browsers. It uses a customized Droid operating system, over 16,000 apps can be downloaded and utilized as well as PDF's, Word documents, and digital libraries.
And finally, one of the best parts of Amazon's Kindle Fire E-reader/tablet is that is a capacitive touch screen. This makes the product very intuitive and easy to use, even for a novice user (great gift idea anytime of the year - birthday, Christmas, graduation, etc.), so now that the smoke has cleared, you can get your Fire for less than half the cost of an iPad.