Hey guys, it’s Wyoskyguy. I just wanna say a few things, my birthday is coming up, and my mom told me about a Kindle Fire by Amazon. I asked, “What is it?” and she said some stuff. So I decided to do some research and compare the two.
Kindle Fire
Display: 7″ Multi-Touch Display, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors
Size: 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm
Weight: 14.6 ounces (413 grams)
System Requirements: Doesn’t require computer, wireless
Device Storage: 8 GBs (That’s the size of a good thumb-drive now)
Online Storage: Cloud from Amazon
Battery Life: 8 hours for reading, 7.5 for movies, an average of 6 for online and download usage.
Charge Time: Fully- 4 hours
Wi-Fi: Basically all that you can hook-up a laptop too.
USB: 2.0 (Standard Computer USB port)
Audio: 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers
Content Formats Supported: Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
Price: $199
Now for the iPad 2. (Surprising, this took quite a while to gather the info for, and some is from previous knowledge)
iPad 2
Display: This I don’t know, I know it’s 0.34 cm thick (or something around that), multi-touch
Size: 0.34 cm/in (Can’t remember which)
Weight: 1.34 (I believe)
System Requirements: Doesn’t require computer
Device Storage: 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB(?)
Online Storage: iCloud from Mac
Battery Life: 10 hours
Charge Time: 4 hours (?)
Wi-Fi and 3G from AT&T and Verizon Wireless and anywhere you can plug a laptop into.
USB: 2.0 with the clip thing to connect to the Apple Product
Audio: I don’t know this, I searched half-a-dozen websites, couldn’t find a thing.
Content Formats Supported: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, iTunes format, and probably some others.
Price: $499
Alright, Now I’m gonna to compare.
Kindle Fire vs iPad 2
Display: iPad 2
Size: Kindle Fire
Device Storage: iPad 2
Battery Life: iPad 2
Charge Time: Tie
Wi-Fi/3G: iPad 2
USB: Tie
Audio: Kindle Fire (I couldn’t find iPad’s)
Content Formats Supported: Kindle Fire
Price: Kindle Fire at $199 (Less then HALF of what the iPad 2 is)
That puts the score iPad 2 (4) – Kindle Fire (3) (Not including ties)
My conclusion: If you are going to be doing a lot downloading (games, music, books, movies), I would go for an iPad 2. If your one of those guys/girls who just like to download some games, play them, post on blogs, etc. I would go for either one. Because really, either way, they do the same thing, but if your cheap, definitely go for the Kindle Fire, it’s less then half of what the iPad 2 is going for.
Well, I think that concludes my post. I hope I get to do this again, because it’s quite fun. Maybe next time I’ll do the newest Xbox and the PlayStation 3.
-Wyoskyguy
