 Hey, this is Josh Dopolsky with The Verge and I'm looking at the Kindle Fire. It's Amazon's first full color tablet, which goes on sale for $200, which is a pretty low price. The hardware itself should be somewhat familiar if you've ever seen the BlackBerry PlayBook. Apparently it used the PlayBook's reference design and the two devices do look nearly identical. They have the same size display. It's a seven inch 1024 by 600 LCD display. The device is equipped with eight gigs of storage, Wi-Fi and 512 megabytes of RAM. Here you see the home screen of the device. This is pretty much where you navigate to all of your content. In this scrolling list, you see your most recent content and that goes backwards in time. You can't actually remove anything from that list, so keep it clean. The Fire is running a customized version of Android 2.3, AKA Gingerbread. It's actually a forked version, so there's no Google stuff on this, meaning no Gmail, no Android Market. Amazon does provide their own app store called the App Store, which has about 10,000 titles in it compared to Google's 360,000 titles. It doesn't seem like that many, but there are some fairly good software selections if you dig deep enough. Additionally, and I think probably the biggest feature of this is that it ties into all of Amazon's music, video and book ecosystem. So you get access to Prime videos and Amazon Music and of course the big bookstore and their newsstand, which is a magazine and newspaper store. And that's directly tied in at the OS level. So when you're in your library, you can quickly jump to the store and start looking around for new content. It's a pretty painless process to get it onto the device. Another big feature that Amazon is touting is the Silk web browser. It's a WebKit based browser that is apparently doing some server side offloading to speed up web page loading. In my testing, I didn't really notice any significant boost in speed. And in fact, I think the browser is kind of clunky in comparison to the iPad 2 or the Honeycomb browser. In all, the Fire is a really great tablet for $200, but it is not an iPad killer. It's I'm not even sure if it's a Honeycomb killer. I mean, it's a great little package. It will make an awesome holiday gift for a lot of people, but it doesn't have the app support right now to warrant recommending this over something like an iPad. And frankly, I'd be hesitant to recommend it over a Honeycomb tablet, given the fact that Amazon is asking developers to split their loyalties and work on an app for their ecosystem as well as the standard Android ecosystem. But the price is great. The content that you have access to is great. And I can definitely recommend it for somebody who just wants to lean back, not mess with apps too much, and just enjoy books and movies.
 Hey, this is Josh Dopolsky with The Verge and I'm looking at the Kindle Fire.
 It's Amazon's first full color tablet, which goes on sale for $200, which is a pretty low
 price.
 The hardware itself should be somewhat familiar if you've ever seen the BlackBerry PlayBook.
 Apparently it used the PlayBook's reference design and the two devices do look nearly
 identical.
 They have the same size display.
 It's a seven inch 1024 by 600 LCD display.
 The device is equipped with eight gigs of storage, Wi-Fi and 512 megabytes of RAM.
 Here you see the home screen of the device.
 This is pretty much where you navigate to all of your content.
 In this scrolling list, you see your most recent content and that goes backwards in
 time.
 You can't actually remove anything from that list, so keep it clean.
 The Fire is running a customized version of Android 2.3, AKA Gingerbread.
 It's actually a forked version, so there's no Google stuff on this, meaning no Gmail,
 no Android Market.
 Amazon does provide their own app store called the App Store, which has about 10,000 titles
 in it compared to Google's 360,000 titles.
 It doesn't seem like that many, but there are some fairly good software selections if
 you dig deep enough.
 Additionally, and I think probably the biggest feature of this is that it ties into all of
 Amazon's music, video and book ecosystem.
 So you get access to Prime videos and Amazon Music and of course the big bookstore and
 their newsstand, which is a magazine and newspaper store.
 And that's directly tied in at the OS level.
 So when you're in your library, you can quickly jump to the store and start looking around
 for new content.
 It's a pretty painless process to get it onto the device.
 Another big feature that Amazon is touting is the Silk web browser.
 It's a WebKit based browser that is apparently doing some server side offloading to speed
 up web page loading.
 In my testing, I didn't really notice any significant boost in speed.
 And in fact, I think the browser is kind of clunky in comparison to the iPad 2 or the
 Honeycomb browser.
 In all, the Fire is a really great tablet for $200, but it is not an iPad killer.
 It's I'm not even sure if it's a Honeycomb killer.
 I mean, it's a great little package.
 It will make an awesome holiday gift for a lot of people, but it doesn't have the app
 support right now to warrant recommending this over something like an iPad.
 And frankly, I'd be hesitant to recommend it over a Honeycomb tablet, given the fact
 that Amazon is asking developers to split their loyalties and work on an app for their
 ecosystem as well as the standard Android ecosystem.
 But the price is great.
 The content that you have access to is great.
 And I can definitely recommend it for somebody who just wants to lean back, not mess with
 apps too much, and just enjoy books and movies.