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The soon to be launched new tablet from Amazon which was not long back declared by Jeff Bezos on 28th September has been creating a huge buzz amid tech enthusiasts. The Kindle Fire offers the functionality of a tablet and likewise a color e-Book reader, but at a very beautiful low price.
The Fire is designed mainly as a media consumption device which runs on a modified version of the Android OS. Does the Kindle Fire have what it takes to scorch the contest in the tablet world and be the tablet to beat or does it fall short? Read on to find out.
Features of the Kindle Fire
- 7 inch color (IPS) touch screen (1024 x 6000 display resolution)
- 8GB internal storage memory
- 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity
- Amazon Cloud for limitless storage of content
- Lightweight, weighs just 413 grams
- A single charge provides up to 8 hours of usage
- Headphone jack, built-in stereo speakers
- Free 1 month trial of Amazon Prime
Design
The Kindle Fire bears a strong resemblance to the BlackBerry Playbook in terms of the weight and feel of the device. The design itself is very streamlined, including just a power button on the unit. With it is comparatively little dimensions of 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.45 inches, the Fire is little sufficient to fit in a somewhat sized pocket or be held one-handed.
Display
The 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS (in plane switching) provides a greatest or most complete or best possible solution of 1024 x 600 at 16 million colors. The ISP engineering employed provides an magnificent range of watching angles, permitting the display to be viewed at 178° and greater.
Despite having a lower solution than the iPad, text on the Fire’s display looks crisp and sharp. The display doesn’t use e-Ink engineering science even though however, so if you want a Kindle mainly for reading I commend one of the earlier models which feature an e-Ink display to minimize eye strain over extended periods.
Connectivity
The Fire isn’t too strong on the connectivity front. There is aid for Wi-Fi, but no support for Bluetooth, 3G or GPS. The headphone jack is very handy for when you want to watch movies or listen to music in private.
User-interface
Amazon has taken a leaf from Apple’s book and opted for simplicity when designing the Fire. The user-interface is very simple and provides easy navigation thru the touch screen. There is a screen to flip through all your digital content plus an icon tray to store your favourite items.
Final Thoughts
When all is said and done, the Kindle Fire isn’t an iPad killer, but it sure packs a punch with it is spec and is a great entry for Amazon into the tablet market. The lack of cameras, extra internal storage choices and 3G connectivity will be off-putting to a great deal of humans who are after a full-fledged tablet experience, but for galore who are after a pure media consumption device, what the Fire delivers will suffice.
The low price point of the Fire and it is media capablenesses are hugely appealing, making it worth severe thoughtfulness for anybody fascinated in enjoying media on the move.
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Anxiety, fear of failure, self-consciousness: these are not the calibers you imagine when you listen the word “heiress.” But in this powerful account, Christina Lewis Halpern applies a journalist’s eye to her own struggles following the passing of her father, the late enterpriser Reginald F. Lewis, when she was 12.
At the time of his death in 1993, Reginald Lewis was the richest black man in America, the Jackie Robinson of American business. A mix of essay and reportage, this essay is an exploration of Lewis’s legacy: both the story of his astounding rags-to-riches journeying from the poverty of segregated Baltimore to the board rooms of Wall Street, and a bluntly honorable and deeply humane account of what it’s like to be the sensible child of a rich and powerful man. As Lewis Halpern follows the past to seek the mysteries of her father’s success, focusing on his time at Harvard Law School, we learn the story of an American legend, but also the complexities of living with his legacy.
“Christina Lewis Halpern has written a touching, powerful memorial to her extraordinary father, Reginald Lewis, a Harvard Law School legend.”
– John Jay Osborn, Jr. author of The Paper Chase
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1777 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-01-01
- Released on: 2012-01-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
| ReviewReginald Lewis–who passed from physical life in 1993 when his daughter, Christina, was only 12–was the primary black American to build a billion-dollar business. He was an impossibly confident, charismatic, and exacting man who studied his way out of segregated east Baltimore, and into a world of affluence eclipsed by whites. Lewis earned everything he got in life, except perchance the one thing that set him on his path to success: admittance to Harvard Law School. Family legend has it that Reginald in a literal sense talked his way into Harvard through an affirmative action program. It is this conundrum that leads his now-grown daughter–a former Wall Street Journal reporter–to consultation his surviving friends, colleagues, and professors for clear or deep perception into her father’s legacy, and his influence on her own sense of self. Along the way, she reveals arousing and attention holding tidbits in regards to her life growing up black in the predominantly white world of New York’s wealthiest and most successful. The experience left her marveling where she genuinely belonged. In Lonely at the Top, Christina explores her deep-seated self-consciousness and sensations of worthlessness with unabashed and poignant honesty. –Paul Diamond
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
 Wonderful!
By Fiona Levaster
This is just a lovely, lovely piece of writing. It’s touching, funny, deep. I loved the twin portraits of self-consciousness and confidence (the sensitive heiress, growing up unsure of what she deserves on her own, and her up-from-nothing, rags-to-riches dad, who always knew he’d conquer the world); the chronicle of growing up strange, bookish, and black in a white world of wealth; and the descriptions of figuring out who you are when so much of your life has been, according to how the wider world sees you, Daughter Of. Also, a little window into New York’s upper crust that’s not quite like the usual account. It’s incredibly honest and vulnerable, a pleasure to read.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
fascinating introspection
By Andrew Philips
Having lived in the seemingly harnessing shadow of my own father’s underachieving anonymity, it was interesting to get a glimpse of an heiresses’ vulnerability from her own unique perspective.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Barely Passing
By savonarola
This is a great combination of memoir and journalism, a deeply personal and fearless return to the place where Reginald Lewis, at one time the “richest black man in America,” got his break and left the segregated world he’d grown up in to attend a special summer program for black students at Harvard Law School. The author finds some surprises–her late father’s grades, for one–and she unflinchingly explores his legacy, her own self-consciousness about her achievements, and the burden of her father’s success story on a child for whom doors historically closed were open. It’s rare to find writing this insightful about race and privilege in America, and my only complant is that it isn’t longer! I hope the author turns this start into a book.
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