Amazon Kindle Fire Key Features
- 7" HD IPS display
- Quad Core Processor
- WiFi & Bluetooth
- Front & Rear camera with HD Video capture
- 8GB Storage + MicroSD Expansion
Beautiful 7 IPS display
The Kindle Fire features a 1024 x 600 IPS display with 171 ppi for a bright display with vivid colours and whiter whites.
Enjoy a great viewing experience at even the widest angles through a combination of IPS (in-plane switching) technology and an advanced polarising filter.
No need to worry about storage space
Keep your photos, movies and games with you using a microSD card slot that lets you expand your tablet’s storage by up to 200 GB.
Capture life’s moments
Fire features a 2 MP rear-facing camera for taking photos or recording 720p HD video. The front-facing VGA camera is perfect for Skype calls with friends and family.
Stands up to everyday life
Amazon engineers Fire tablets to hold up against everyday life. As measured in tumble tests, Fire tablets are 1.8 times more durable than the iPad Air 2.
Watch
Enjoy all your favourite movies and TV shows on Amazon Video, Netflix, BBC iPlayer and more. Discover hundreds of thousands of TV episodes and movies. Amazon Video also lets you fling your content to your Fire TV.
Play
Over 500,000 apps including favourites such as Facebook, Twitter and Spotify. Play great titles including Inside Out Thought Bubbles, Jetpack Joyride, Monument Valley and Sonic Dash from developers such as Disney, Halfbrick Studios, ustwo, Sega and more.
Fire OS
With Fire OS you can quickly learn more about gameplay with Twitch. Twitch is the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers.
ComiXology provides recommendations from over 100,000 great comic books and graphic novels.
Find the things you love more easily
Fire OS is the best entertainment experience on a tablet with quick access to the things you do most. The home screen includes dedicated content pages for books, games, apps, video, music, audiobooks and Newsstand, making it quick to pick up right where you left off.
Powered by Amazon’s recommendations engine, you can quickly browse books, movies, TV shows, music, apps and games suggested just for you.
Watch on the big screen
Fling Amazon movies and TV shows from your tablet to your big-screen TV using Second Screen. This turns your TV into the primary screen, freeing up your Fire tablet to provide playback controls, a customised display for X-Ray, or simply to e-mail, browse the web and more while you watch a movie.
Second Screen is available for Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Mirroring capabilities are not supported.
Read comfortably at night
Blue Shade is an exclusive Fire OS "Bellini" feature that works behind the scenes to automatically adjust and optimise the backlight for a more comfortable night-time reading experience.
Simply tap Blue Shade on the quick actions menu to turn on this feature and enjoy your favourite book, news article, app, or any other night-time activity without straining your eyes.
Read and Listen
Now on Fire tablets, read and listen simultaneously with real-time highlighting. It's called Immersion Reading and that's what it does: immerse you in a story by narrating and highlighting the text as you read. It sparks an extra connection that boosts engagement and comprehension, taking you deeper into the book.
Share with friends on Goodreads
Find your next favourite book. Fire tablets are integrated with the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations, with over 40 million members, 1.1 billion books added, and 43 million book reviews.
Join over 30 million other readers and see what your friends are reading, share highlights, and rate the books you read with Goodreads on your Fire tablet.
Display 7" touchscreen, 1024 x 600 resolution at 171 ppi, SD video playback, with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and advanced polarising filter
Dimensions 191 x 115 x 10.6 mm
Weight 313 g
CPU & RAM Quad-Core 1.3 GHz with 1 GB of RAM
Operating System Android OS, v5.1 (Lollipop) Fire 5 UI
Storage 8 GB (4.5 GB available to user) Add microSD card for up to 200 GB of additional storage for even more movies, TV shows, music, photos, personal videos, and apps. Some apps may require that they are installed on internal storage.
Battery Life Up to 7 hours depending on use (From new, acutal performance may be less)
Wi-Fi Connectivity Single-antenna Wi-Fi. Supports public and private Wi-Fi networks or hotspots that use the 802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n standard with support for WEP, WPA, and WPA2 security using password authentication; does not support connecting to ad-hoc (or peer-to-peer) Wi-Fi networks.
USB MicroUSB
Audio 3.5 mm stereo jack and integrated speaker
Content Formats Supported Kindle (AZW), KF8, TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible Enhanced format (AAX), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, PCM/WAVE, OGG, WAV, M4V, MP4, AAC LC/LTP, HE-AACv1, HE-AACv2, MKV, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, HTML5, CSS3, 3GP, VP8 (WEBM)
Sensors Accelerometer
Camera Specs VGA front-facing camera. 2 MP rear-facing HD camera
Location Services Location-based services via Wi-Fi
Additional Features External volume controls, built-in Bluetooth with support for A2DP compatible stereo headphones, speakers, microphone, and LE accessories support
Accessibility Features VoiceView and Screen Magnifier enable access to the vast majority of Fire tablet features. VoiceView features IVONA's award-winning natural language text-to-speech voice. Fire OS 5 also includes system wide closed caption settings, adjustable font sizes up to 50% larger, and a variety of book reading text adjustments such as adjustable colours and text spacing. Also includes adjustable font sizes/color, and built-in Oxford dictionary.
