7" tablet - why is no-one mentioning Kindle Fire HD?

Dreamnine

If it ran stock Android without all the Amazon nonsense/spam/adverts it might be worth mentioning.

JJ_Egan

Flash working fine on many tablets .
Galaxy Tab Note 10.1 Nexus 7 Nexus 10 for definite .

But i would check for any tablet i wanted that it will run flash .

bod1467

How/where do you find the Amazon app store? (It's not an app on the Google Play store).

System

It is basically a crippled android tablet device. The Google Nexus 7 and Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7 were both similarly priced android tablets when the Kindle came out. Seeing as they were full android and kindle wasn't, it has always been overlooked and with good reason too.

bod1467

bod1467 wrote: »

How/where do you find the Amazon app store? (It's not an app on the Google Play store).

Answered my own question - you need to side-load it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/mas/get/android/

pogofish

gallygirl wrote: »

Yet another 'what tablet' thread, but haven't seen anyone mention Kindle Fire HD - in a good or bad way?

Plenty of threads in the right forum here.

gallygirl

almillar, very useful thanks. So will need to get his log in details and try it out (may have a cheeky bet while I'm at it :rotfl:)

Everything else is a lot more than I wanted to pay apart from a hudl.

olias

Technofobe silly questions time.....
Can I watch the catchups - BBCiplayer, 4OD etc etc on the Kindle fire HD. Also can I watch The live TV options through these sites? I'm talking about through my wifi at home where I have download speeds of about 7.5MB

Thanks - sorry to hijack thread:o

Olias

laurel7172

I've been looking at the Asus memo pad. Hudl price range, fairly decent camera, quad core.

Don't know about Flash, though, sorry.

almillar

JJ Egan - I know you can get Flash onto tablets, as I mentioned, I've done it. But it really doesn't work well for what the OP wants - DESKTOP flash. The site will be expecting a mouse to be used, just for starters, and performance is poor. I think it's a really bad investment to buy a tablet hoping to use these sites as easily as you're used to on a PC.

olias - you would need to find out if the iPlayer, 4OD apps specifically are in the Amazon store. I would have to guess the iPlayer one is, but I don't know. You won't be able to use the (desktop) website to do it reliably as some of it is Flash and some is HTML5 AFAIK. Not that sure though. You want the app really.
7.5mb broadband is plenty.
laurel7172 - the memopad will run Flash about as well as any other Android tablet - not great. It's more about the site you use Flash on, they expect a mouse and keyboard.