Got. A fire today love it so far. Posting from it now.

Same here. Got mine yesterday and I like it a lot. Perfect for next to my bed. Had a few gift cards and got it for half price. Sweet.

Now I need a usb cable.for this. Didn't come with one.

I really don't like how Amazon is trying to split the Android market. Some of it comes from Google ****ing up, and some of it comes from content providers being cavemen, but it worries me. Especially if they continue to subsidize prices. Hopefully the competition leads to Google releasing a well made Nexus tablet though. Because it's needed.


Over the past month or so, I've been able to spend a lot of time with and iPad 2, Prime, and Fire. The iPad is easily the best device, although it has issues that drive me crazy (for a company as obsessed with experience, I can't understand how they've made it so hard to switch between applications). The Fire is the worst. But it does what it does well enough. It's just not a true "tablet", in the sense of Google and Apple. The Prime is also very nice, at least with ICS. Still would never recommend it to a basic user over the iPad though.

Really? My wife's had one of those adapters that's just a plug for a usb cable to charge it. So you just unplug it from the adapter and into the computer and you're good to go.

I cant its a wall only cable on this one. I bought the adapted for the Pc though. Only 3 bucks

What's so hard about switching between apps on iPad? You know there's several ways to do so... The easiest is a simple 4-finger swipe left or right to switch to recent apps. Or you can double tap the Home button, and have a list of 6-7 most recent apps. I don't see how it could be any easier...

And what is it you don't like about the Prime? I think it's pretty awesome and close to being on par with the iPad.

I just saw the Vizio Tabs back at Costco for $189 new. I have had mine for a month and am very happy with it. They are $259 new on Ebay.

The only 2 issues with it are that it has a slot for up to 32 gigs of external memory but none of the itune syncers will recognize the external card and will only write to internal (limited to 4 g.) The workaround for me was to download it to the chip via my Samsung phone and then put the chip in the tablet. The power connector also seems a little unstable. I haven't had any problems yet and it does have the Costco warranty (which isn't what it used to be but they are good at returning stuff.)

I hate HP so much right now...

The Fire is pretty terrible out of the box. With CM7 it's tits.

I've done that for quite a while, not quite as bad as Packard Bell but not far away either.

It didn't come with a cable that you connect to your computer? Seriously?

Why?

nope, just in the box in the kindle and the ac power plug and thats it. I had to order one for 3 bucks lol Fire is as basic as it gets, but its pretty ****ing cool. Watching Gilligans Island on Amazon prime haha

and the cord for the AC plug doesn't come off to reveal a USB plug? Man, they really want this to be a cloud only device.