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ok... am considering writing a letter to father xmas for a kindle fire.......

having read up it appears unless i jailbreak it, I can only get amazon products from amazon shop on it.... which is kind of annoying...

It would be used 80% of the time for reading books - i think - but cannot really buy in to ebooks 100% - intangible - nothing to hold / smell etc, but I can understand the benefits.

My mobile is a samsung galaxy note I. Can I get a decent app from google shop that allows me to use it as a mini kindle - 5" screen as opposed to 7"...

If so, any recommendations...
 
if you have a galaxy note, do you really need a kindle fire??

If it is just for reading, get the real kindle with the eink screen
 
Dale_d3100 said:
If it is just for reading, get the real kindle with the eink screen
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yep, nothing could cut it for my wife or daughter on the tablet front for reading books so they now have iPads and Kindles, e-ink and battery life are what make Kindles great.. plenty of programs out there for converting to Kindle format and you can email PDFs to your Kindles email address and it will get converted and sent to your Kindle free of charge.

my wife finds Kindles store well priced.
 
i.ve just got the galaxy s3 phone - i have books & photo mags in pdf format all i did was drag n drop them in my phone and use kindle to read them - you should be able to do the same..
 
If it's for Amazon Kindle books then as Keith says download the Kindle app to your Note. There are lots of ebook apps in the play store, most are free. Aldiko and Fbreader are recommended in case you come across any books in different formats.
 
I have a normal e-reader. All it does is books. It has an e-ink display like a kindle. Mines made by Sony. It's completely readable and most importantly to me even sharper and clearer to read when the screen is in full sun as it might be on holiday.

Thats the factor that puts be off the likes of kindle fire for reading books - how will it be in full sun?

Having said that the newer e-ink readers like the kindle paper white have higher contrast in lower light than my old Sony so I may upgrade sometime.

As to the books themselves calibre is a brilliant tool for organising and transferring books to ereaders.
 
thanks all for your recommendations and suggestions... have downloaded the kindle app (didn't know there was one) .. will give it a go on the phone and see what battery life is like.

Failing that, something else...

Much appreciated...:thumbs::thumbs:
 
I just don't get the point in the fire. The whole point in a kindle for me is the easy-on-the-eye eink and the fact the battery just lasts bloody ages! As soon as you go into a backlit tablet it just seems pointless and you may as well just get any tablet with a ereader app.
 
i love my kindle, and will be upgrading to the paperwhite Santa permitting, i also can't see the point of a fire, its a tablet, in a market that has loads of tablets
 
Fire - tablet with limited apps
Nexus - same as Fire, but more apps (lose out on some kindle features)
iPad - different ecosystem, device is worse, but best apps.
Surface RT- watch this space
 
Ricardodaforce said:
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Probably be bigger than Android, wait and see.

Until the Nexus arrived, android had nothing, even though the Asus Transformer still occupies 3 of the top 10 tablets in T3 magazine, no one looked at them, they weren't on the high street. The nexus devices have arrived and things are looking up.

It needs to look up, Windows 8 on tablets is coming and Android needs to get a good foot in if it wants to stay in the android market as a viable alternative.

Once the Windows 8 (metro) apps start rolling out, they will have a giant market share, big names will be attracted and the app market will fill with bigger, better apps. If the quality of apps is better than Android and the brands are there, then why go to Android??

It is too early yet, but in a years time, windows on a tablet is gong to be a very attractive alternative.
 
The question is are iOS, Android, and Windows 8 the OS equivalents of IE, Firefox and Chrome respectively in the browser wars (yes, I have got the OS->browser mapping right there)
 
i.e.:

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iOS = black line, Android = red line, W8 = green line.
 
I think so

Apple dominance will depend on the decisions they have made. They are now hitting fragmentation which everyone used to point at android and laughed saying iOS doesn't suffer from this. Apple will stay high not directly due to what they do, but due to the companies they have attracted and the apps they have created.

These apps will come to Windows 8 and android will be left out again.

Google need to fix the play store, make it easier to find, make it easier to find tablet apps and then attract companies to android. The attraction is not there.
 
Dale_d3100 said:
Google need to fix the play store, make it easier to find, make it easier to find tablet apps and then attract companies to android. The attraction is not there.
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But the jobs are their. the market for android talent is booming its not even funny.

i get calls every day even during the xmas period of recruuiters asking me if i am available for a new role.

Android/IOS is the new "desktop/web development trend"
 
With rumours starting that Samsung are looking at their own mobile OS as they don't want to be totally dependant on google, how long has android really to left.

It you lose Samsung as a supplier of android device then it becomes a bit of a dead duck, as they are the only one selling in real volume, unless you still going to count kindle fire as an android device ( which it real is with an amazon wrapper )
 
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acetone said:
With rumours starting that Samsung are looking at their own mobile OS as they don't want to be totally dependant on google, how long has android really to left.

It you lose Samsung as a supplier of android device then it becomes a bit of a dead duck, as they are the only one selling in real volume, unless you still going to count kindle fire as an android device ( which it real is with an amazon wrapper )
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Samsung have had their own OS for years and it's a complete failure, it's called Bada. Samsung may go with a Windows phone but it will be in addition to Android not instead of. No company is going to throw away a product line that sells in the millions.
 
Steep said:
Samsung have had their own OS for years and it's a complete failure, it's called Bada. Samsung may go with a Windows phone but it will be in addition to Android not instead of. No company is going to throw away a product line that sells in the millions.
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exactly.
 
Samsung will launch a Tizen based phone this year, and why not dump a profitable line for one that will give you more control and less dependant of others, total control and self reliance on the OS has worked rather well for Apple.

At the end of the day the actual OS unimportant to most users, but whats in the App Store, this would be the major issue for any new system, and why apple amazon and android are doing so well at this time. If someone could get a store focused on what the china/Indian market want they'll make a killing as this is where real growth in the market will be.

Swapping an iPhone 4 for an i5 or a galaxy2 for a 3 will make money, but it's not growing your share of the market.
 
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