Best price on kindle fire hd 8.9 android#

Best price on kindle fire hd 8.9 android#

The category average is 362 lux.Ĭlick to EnlargeLike the smaller Fire HD, the 8.9-inch version runs a heavily modified version of the Android operating system, which is designed primarily for showcasing Amazon content.

The Fire HD 8.9's average brightness of 454 lux also trumped most of its competition, including the Nexus 10 (376 lux) and the iPad (386 lux), but not the Transformer Pad Infinity (642 lux). The same image on the Nexus 10 looked browner and duller. The Fire HD's colors were slightly more saturated, but weren't as vibrant. On the National Geographic Photo of the Day (a pheasant in Italy), colors seemed truest on the iPad - the greens of the grasses were accurate, and the reds of the poppies and the comb of the pheasant really popped. The Nexus 10 and the Fire HD were noticeably pixelated. When we zoomed all the way in on the Times' logo, it was only crisp on the iPad. When we viewed The New York Times on the Fire HD, Nexus 10, and the iPad, text was clearest on the iPad, followed by the Fire HD 8.9, and then the Nexus 10. The screen also features a polarizing filter and antiglare technology, so we could still see the action on-screen even when the Fire HD was tilted at oblique angles. We could make out every scratch in Iron Man's armor, as well as individual strands of Black Widow's red hair. A downloaded HD version of 'The Avengers' (720p) looked outstanding. While not as high as the iPad (2048 x 1536) or the Nexus 10 (2560 x 1600 pixels), its resolution is the same as the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity. Click to EnlargeThe showcase of the Fire HD is its 8.9-inch, 1920 x 1200 IPS display.