![]() So, what about the writing? Well, you won’t find nearly as many writing apps in the Amazon App store as you will at the Apple or Google equivalents, and notable omissions are Scrivener and Microsoft’s Office suite. Screen resolution is very good, battery life is impressive (the HD8 is the best in this respect, with up to 12 hours from a single charge) and the cost is negligible (currently just $39.99 for the Fire 7, $59.99 for the Fire HD 8 or $119.99 for the Fire HD 10). Responsiveness when switching between apps is a tad lower than on the iPad, but we’re talking in terms of the Fire being fractions of a second slower, so there is nothing to complain about. That expandability is something that I would love to see on an iPad, but I can’t imagine Apple going in that direction any time soon.Īs a long-time user of the iPad, I expected my experience on the Fire to be blatantly inferior, but that isn’t proving to be the case at all. Internal storage varies from 8 GB to 64 GB, depending on the model selected, but the addition of an SD card can take storage for all models up to 256 GB. The Fire comes in several different models, with 7, 8 and 10.1 inch screens. So far, the experiment is proving successful, and I can certainly see myself using the Fire more than occasionally. I am therefore writing this post on an Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet with a Foldable Bluetooth ESYNIC Pocket Size Keyboard on a lap desk, and the app I am writing in is WPS Office, which – like most Amazon apps – was a free and easy download. ![]() > Explore Amazon Fire Tablets at Amazon << The Fire tablets are sold as consumer devices rather than ones designed for productivity, but there are several note-taking applications available for download from the Amazon Fire store, and so it seemed at least feasible that a Fire tablet might come in handy for writing purposes from time to time. ![]() With the cost of Amazon Fire tablets having fallen to ridiculously low levels, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at how useful (or not) they might be for serious writing on the move. ![]()
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