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Biggest Dissapointment with Kindle Fire

The biggest disappointment for me is the lack of physical buttons. I would like to get a Home/Back button, and volume control.

No Bluetooth for keyboard and headphone.

But I think make itself a solid product tie together with eBook, TV shows and Movies with Amazon Prime.
 
bdal1 said:
You have to sideload the addons. Dolphin is looking for the android market when you click to get the addon and then the kindle is redirecting to the Amazon market.
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I don't know how you would acquire the add-ons to sideload them. You have to install Dolphin first; once you install it, it asks if you want the add-ons. When you say you do, it looks for the market to get them so that it can install them. So how would you get the add-ons without going through that?

I dont know enough about it; I use Opera, anyway. Dolphin always seemed to be more concerned about bells and whistles than with running fast and smooth; as far as I'm concerned. Opera has all the other browsers beat when it come to that. Just my opinion.
 
grvthang said:
I don't know how you would acquire the add-ons to sideload them. You have to install Dolphin first; once you install it, it asks if you want the add-ons. When you say you do, it looks for the market to get them so that it can install them. So how would you get the add-ons without going through that?

I dont know enough about it; I use Opera, anyway. Dolphin always seemed to be more concerned about bells and whistles than with running fast and smooth; as far as I'm concerned. Opera has all the other browsers beat when it come to that. Just my opinion.
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There are plenty of places to find apks.
Go to 4shared.com and search for your add ons there. If they dont have them, do a google search. Just remember to always add Apk to your web search.
"Apk" is an android installation extension.
 
MRW1215 said:
I tried out the Prime instant video streaming the other day, and I expected it to be laggy and buffer a lot (because my high speed Internet is pretty low-end), but it actually appeared to download the video very quickly, and then play it with no buffering. o_O I was shocked.

What I'm really disappointed with, though, has nothing to do with the Fire, itself, but Amazon's Prime video service. I'm actually a paying member of Prime, for the record; what I'd like to know is, why are most (if not all?) current running shows not free to watch? I'm already paying $40 for Prime (I'd be paying $80, if I weren't getting the student discount), so why do I have to pay $1.99 per episode to catch up with some shows that I missed the latest episode of?

Most of the time, this isn't a big deal, because a lot of the stuff is on Hulu, which is free. But there are some shows I like to watch that don't get added to Hulu until 8 days after they air, which is silly, because if I don't want to watch the next episode without having seen the one I missed, I end up getting stuck being behind with the series. It just seems to me that, if I'm paying for Amazon Prime, they should offer free viewing of new episodes for no extra charge. Why not try to compete with Hulu, in that regard? I'd think that would be a fairly nice way to sell Prime to people, on top of the other perks that come with it.
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Licensing and the outdated TV model. This is why Hulu has the stupid 8 day wait, why Amazon doesn't have every movie released ASAP, why everything related to TV shows/movies happens. Amazon would need to fork out a lot of money to let you watch anything the next day and the TV networks would never allow it in the first place because they want to be able to set prices by the flawed Nielsen Rating System and the advertisers want you watching their stupid commercials.

So, basically, the Fire is never going to be worth it for recent media from Amazon. Though, you can just go to Hulu :P
 
Biggest disappointments for me were the uninstallable pre-installed apps, the lack of bluetooth, and the sometimes non-responsive touch screen.
 
bdal1 said:
There are plenty of places to find apks.
Go to 4shared.com and search for your add ons there. If they dont have them, do a google search. Just remember to always add Apk to your web search.
"Apk" is an android installation extension.
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What I was saying is I didn't think you can get the add-ons individually as separate files. I've found that you can.
 
Can someone really be disappointed about a capability that the Fire never claimed to provide (GPS, bluetooth, SD slot, buttons), or that is available to those knowledgeable enough to explore the OS and available software? It' like complaining because your new shoes don't hold up your slacks... Really?

There is certainly much to be learned here, but no cure for the "disappointments" arising out of a poorly informed buying decision or lack of attention to software availability and capability.

I love my Kindle Fire, but achieving its full potential, as I choose to define it, is totally up to me. It does what Amazon said it would, and very well. If I want it to do more, and it is certainly capable of that, it's on me. Won't be adding any buttons though...
 
Humpty Dumpty said:
Can someone really be disappointed about a capability that the Fire never claimed to provide (GPS, bluetooth, SD slot, buttons)
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Yes they can be disappointed, it's called not reading....
Hahaha I agreed with you 100% it's a shame they do
not do the required research necessary and then badmouth
the product.
 
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