![]() It certainly is an interesting location for both sets of buttons, and one that we certainly became accustomed to shortly after using the tablet. When using the tablet, the volume rocker and power button can accessed easily since your hands are most likely already holding it at its sides. The Fire HDX 8.9’s rear is also where you’ll find the tablet’s volume rocker and power button, which are found on close to both of the device’s sides. The area housing the camera and speakers of the tablet are covered in a thick, black piece of plastic which seems to go against the rest of the aesthetics of the tablet’s rear, which is covered in a light rubber material. At both sides of the top portion, you’ll find dual speakers. The top portion of the rear is where you’ll find the tablet’s 8MP main camera along with a flash located right next to the camera lens. The rear of the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is by far it’s most interesting area as there are a lot of jagged edges, although they aren’t sharp or anything like that. The right side is a little less exciting as it only has the tablet’s 3.5mm headphone jack, but important nonetheless considering how important headphones are to mobile devices. The left side is where you’ll find the Fire HDX 8.9’s microUSB port that can be used to not only recharge the tablet, but to also sync content from your computer to the tablet. There are absolutely no buttons available anywhere on the tablet’s outer rim, instead, there are only two ports available at either side of the top portion of the left and right rim. The outer rim of the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is kept pretty bare when compared to other Android tablets. "THE HDX DISPLAY LOOKS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING" Sitting above the display is where you’ll find the Fire HDX’s 720p HD front-facing camera. ![]() Surrounding the 8.9-inch display is a strong, black bezel that looks to measure in at around 1 ½ inches. For now, know that the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9’s display is capable of offering a 2500 x 1600 resolution. When you first open your package from Amazon, you’ll be met with the Kindle Fire HDX’s 8.9 inch display, which we’ll get into how it performs and everything else in the Display portion of our review. Amazon for the most part offers what you’d expect from a tablet in its Fire HDX 8.9, although it offers a few interesting design choices that may or may not be your cup of tea. The majority of tablets tend to offer the same overall design as the front of the device tends to feature its display, with buttons and ports featured at different areas of the outer rim, depending on the manufacturer. The Amazon Kindle has always been a tablet geared towards people who enjoy reading more than anything else, and although I’m not a traditional reader in the sense that I don’t often read books, I do read quite a bit on a daily basis from various articles to more in-depth stories. I also keep up with my emails on tablets as being able to sit back and correspond with friends and family from the comfort of a tablet is something I really enjoy. Tablets tend to be perceived as a piece of tech that you can’t create much media with, so I tend to just intake media as I watch YouTube videos, browse various websites like Reddit and keep up with what my friends are doing on various social media services like Twitter and Facebook. Processor: 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPUĭimensions: 231mm X 158mm X 7.8mm Contextīefore we get on with the review, I’d like to take a moment to explain what I tend to do with tablets when I use them in my personal life. It features a 2.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, Android 4.2.2 running Amazon’s Fire OS 3.0 UI, an 8MP main camera, a 720p HD front-facing camera, 16GB of internal storage and is said to last for up to 12 hours of reading, web browsing and watching online video.Īmazon has produced some impressive tablets in the past, so let’s just see how good the latest Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 compares to previously released tablets in the Kindle Fire series. One of the main selling points of the Kindle Fire HDX is its exclusive HDX display, which offers a 323PPI on the 7-inch model and 339PPI on the 8.9-inch model.Īs you probably could tell, we’ll be taking a look at the 8.9-inch version of the Kindle Fire HDX in our review, which has many of the same internal specs as its smaller 7-inch sibling does. Amazon announced their latest Kindle Fire tablets, the Kindle Fire HDX, earlier this fall as two separate devices running on either a 7-inch display or a slightly larger 8.9-inch display.
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