Kindle Fire v.s. the iPad 2

Tablets are the hit of Christmas this year, and I want to find the best one that’s worth money. I want a tablet because they have portable Internet access wherever there is WiFi, I can read on them, and there is quick access to games, email, and Facebook.  To find a comparison chart I looked up on google search: “Kindle Fire vs iPad 2”.  After that I came up with a comparison chart that compared the Kindle Fire and the iPad 2.  Out of many questions there is one that most important:  which tablet is better?

There is many things I would like to compare between the two but right now I want to compare their physical traits.  The kindle is 7 in. while the iPad is 9.7 in.  The iPad 2 is 46% heaver than the Kindle weighing 21.28 oz while the Kindle Fire weighs 14.6 oz.  The Kindle Fire has a 28% higher pixel density than the iPad 2 having 169 ppi while the iPad 2 has 132 ppi, and they both display more than 16 million colors.

   Next I want to talk about their software and memory.  Both tablets have a 1GHz dual core processor and both have free cloud storage.  The Kindle Fire only has 8GB of storage, while the iPad 2 has twice as much.  The Kindle Fire has flash support and the iPad 2 does not.  Both systems have wireless capability and reliable Internet browsers, The Kindle Fire having Amazon Silk and the iPad 2 having Safari.  Being a smaller system, the Kindle Fire has only 7.5 hours of video playback battery life and the iPad 2 has up to ten hours of mixed use.  Both tablets also have multitasking capabilities.

After I talked about the tablets software and memory, I would like to talk about the extra things about each system.  The Kindle Fire has a Prime instant video feature that lets you instantly stream nearly 13,000 popular movies and TV shows at no additional cost.  The Kindle Fire also has a owners lending library feature that lets Prime members barrow from thousands of popular books at no additional cost.  The Kindle Fire can have movies, shows, songs, games, apps, magazines and books from Amazon and the iPad 2 from iTunes.  On the Kindle Fire you can sync most of your Amazon content on other systems including the iPhone, iPad, Androids, Blackberry, Windows 7 phones, internet-ready TV’s, Roku, TiVo, and through your web browser.  You can also watch half a movie on your Kindle Fire and then sync it on your TV or another device and keep watching the other half without having to restart it.

In the end I ultimately chose the Kindle Fire.  Even though the Kindle Fire has many features,  there are some that I’ll have to live without:  a camera, less storage and not as much battery life as the iPad 2.  Some of the Kindle Fires features really did stand out though.  those features are it’s flash support, it’s weight, it’s resolution, it’s size, it’s feature of syncing onto many other devises and the fact that t is $300 less that the iPad 2.  That is why I chose the Kindle Fire over the iPad 2.