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Nexus 7 or Kindle fire hd ?

emerald21
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Good Morning do any of you have an opinion of either a kindle fire hd or a nexus 7 please ? Or can anyone tell me which they think is the better as I d like to buy one or the other for a present . Thank you

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  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,177 Forumite
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    edited 14 April 2014 at 3:36PM
    no difficult choice there Nexus 7 clear winner

    more Apps!



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  • Tiexen
    Tiexen Posts: 740 Forumite
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    no difficult choice there Kindle Fire HD clear winner
  • Tiexen
    Tiexen Posts: 740 Forumite
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    What do you need it to do? - they are both fine tablets
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    Your choice between them is whether you want a device with vanilla Android, or one which is integrated (some may say "locked") into the Amazon ecosystem.
  • Quiet_Spark
    Quiet_Spark Posts: 1,093 Forumite
    Nexus 7 all day long
    Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
    Oversteer is when you hit a wall with the back of your car
    Horsepower is how fast your car hits the wall
    Torque is how far your car sends the wall across the field once you've hit it
  • Daz2009
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    Your best best is too look at the reviews...Techradar is a good place to start....and see if they have the features you want,or rather the recipient wants.
    There are other tablets worth considering too.
    I personally wouldn't go for any Amazon products because of the lack of google play store support
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    Daz2009 wrote: »
    I personally wouldn't go for any Amazon products because of the lack of google play store support

    How to install Google apps on Kindle Fire HD or HDX
  • I have a 1st Gen Nexus 7 and my OH has the never version and I must admit we both adore them. I would personally go for it oiver the kindle fire as I think the apps choice etc is better. Plus you can get the kindle app on the Nexus 7 and it works very well (avid reader here!) My OH uses the Nexus very differently to how I use mine yet neither of us have had any issues with them at all. Mine might be a few years old now but it doesn't feel old or outdated or clunky in any way and it doesn't run any slower than when I first got it.

    Nexus 7 all the way from this corner!
    Everyone has a dark side... apparently mine is called Harold?!? :huh:
  • bod1467
    bod1467 Posts: 15,214 Forumite
    My OH has a 1st gen Nexus 7. (I got her it as a surprise Xmas gift in 2012). Despite being a self-confessed technophobe, she loves it. :)
  • emerald21
    emerald21 Posts: 11,349 Forumite
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    bod1467 wrote: »
    My OH has a 1st gen Nexus 7. (I got her it as a surprise Xmas gift in 2012). Despite being a self-confessed technophobe, she loves it. :)


    Thank you all for replying
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