Topic: what do you know about kindle fire HP ?

[bubu]

My family will give me a Kindle Fire Hp in the next weeks, I don't really know how it works, any clue on the matter?

[goldshirt*9]

they are a nice piece of kit.
Everything works , similar to apple pads

unsure if you can put your own music and movies on though

[smokester]

Seems like a very good machine according to this review I found.  The hardware is powerful and video, audio and text readability are excellent apparently:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/tablets/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-7-1095316/review

Italian Translation:

And it's incredibly cheap.

[dweez]

Kindle Fires are supposed to be nice.  It runs a customized Android OS so if you're familiar with Android OS, you should pick it up easily.

[smokester]

I've seen this advertised on MTV a few times now, and it does look like a slick tablet. I would imagine it will do very well here over Christmas at £159.  That's about 2 beers and a cheese sandwich in Leicester Square.

[goldshirt*9]

They are fantastic to use.
Have played around with one.
Amazon have their act together on this one.

[bubu]

Thank you guys for all the info, here it costs 199 euro but it is really cheap for a tablet, unfortunately i don't know anything about Android OS and never had a tablet before or an ebook reader, do you know how can I put my own ebooks on it ?

[mishca09]

amazon is awesome, if you buy your books from amazon then, you then send it to through wifi connection. Otherwise you can hook your tablet up with your usb connection and then drop them in the books folder…. or you can download calibre and calibre can do all the work for you really and you just have to sync your books you add to the calibre library onto your kindle.

if that wasnt helpful  here is a youtube video link

 

[bubu]

thank you mishca!   I already have calibre, and I can use it to transfer the ebooks and convert in the right format, I used it when Demonoid was up to upload my book in different formats and the epub was the most requested. And the tutorial is really useful 

[mishca09]

welcome:)

[6pairsofshoes]

Hi.  Can I transfer FLAC files onto it?
Does it have the ability to interface with a digital projector so I can give powerpoint type presentations from it?

I don't use amazon much for books except in hard copy, so the e-books I own, I get from other sources, same with my music.  I'm concerned about being able to have a tablet computer that allows me to access my own content, use applications for e-mail, text, slide shows and visual presentations in concert with projection devices.  I am not at all sure a Fire will allow me to do this, as it seems like a device intended to foster subscriptions and use of amazon services. 

[mishca09]

from a quick search , you transfer FLAC files to your kindle but I couldn't find anything were you could use it to connect with a projector...

[6pairsofshoes]

That's my problem.  My well intentioned relatives bought me a kindle (even after asking me in the past if I wanted one and I had replied "no thank you").  So now I think I have to return it, get store credit from amazon and somehow use the money to buy a different tablet.  I was thinking of buying an iPad since I have more complicated needs than the Kindle seems to have been designed to satisfy and it seems a waste to have so many devices.  We simply can't afford both.

[mishca09]

when I did do a search, I did find that apple does have HDMI connecter that allows you to connect to a monitor or projector. so maybe apple might be the way to go another andriod tablet…

found this

http://www.komando.com/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28474

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/76089.html

[6pairsofshoes]

The kindle also has an hdmi connector to link to a television so you can stream movies from the kindle to the larger display.  That makes me wonder if I can use some kind of Droid app to synch via Google drive to my Mac and use the powerpoints and display them from the Kindle.  I just wish someone had the experience in advance to tell me if this will work.  Maybe there's some gearhead at amazon who can walk me through this.