November 24th 2011
Day 1. A Kindle Fire in Canada
Cover via Amazon
First impressions. Lovely to look at, nice to hold and a bit heavier than earlier Kindles
Books etc all delivered flawlessly.Everything the other Kindles do this does.
Added pdf docs from my pc. Worked well, colour. Yeh!
Browser is an improvement. Will not win speed awards.
Colour sucks more juice so you will need to charge it more often.
The early adopter penalty is that the “tablet” stuff is not available in Canada until they get legal stuff sorted out .
Eg.
I pushed music up to to the Amazon cloud for my pc (Had to use Hotspot as they have not turned the cloud on for Canada). Music was then pushed down to the Kindle – works well
Getting new Android apps is a can not do if you are not connected in the US. Not cleared for anywhere else yet. So Apple wins until that happens since their Cloud and store worked asap.
Hotspot to my pc would not work for apps as Amazon checks where the device is connected and will not let you download. I could root the unit…
The apps that come with the Kindle.
Mail app worked with Gmail – looks good.
Pandora, not in Canada.Quickoffice app reads office attachments.
Pulse app aggregates lots of blog feeds. Pretty good. Add your magazine feeds here.
If you connect via wifi in the us, you can get everything. The app then works in Canada.
Ditto for streaming video. Not in Canada. I tried to add a video I had to the device from my pc. Could not find it.
Magazines. Only allowed to send B&W in Canada as yet. This will come. Need a US address for colour.
So no advantage to getting this early. But I expect it will all get done.
Related articles
- Kindle Fire: Non-techie perspective (zdnet.com)
- Can Nook Coloured Tablet Beat Kindle Fire? (blogs.vinuthomas.com)
- The Tech-pert: Is the Kindle Fire the Best Tablet Computer for Under $200? (savings.com)
- Amazon to sell 12 million Kindle Fire units next year – analyst (intomobile.com)
- Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire: Best tablets in their price range (news.consumerreports.org)
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This is what I feared about the Fire but I am still very bullish on sub 300 dollar tablets.
Thanks for posting, I was eyeing the Fire for my next tech purchase but I’ll pass.
How did you get the kindle fire in canada?
on the website kindlecanada.fh.ca they describe how to order the kindle to canada from the amazon international store, but they say the kindle fire isn’t available in canada. Did you find a way around amazon’s kindle fire block on canada?
I have a US post office box just across the border. So it is registered in the US. However the Android store does
not work once you come back to Canada. So its worth the wait for it to be available in Canada.
So you buy kindle fire in USA and bring it back to canada right? or You buy it in canada – How can you do that?
Buy in the US and bring to Canada. Then wait for all the legal stuff to allow everything to work in Canada. In the meantime you can add video etc by using miro from miro.com