Amazon Kindle Fire from an European perspective
I've been interested in tablet devices for years (Maemo devices, anyone?), even before the iPad created the current tablet market. However as smartphones became increasingly more powerful and meanwhile I got myself a really light laptop (MacBook Air), even though devices like the iPad and some of the more serious competing offerings are undeniably very well implemented, amazing devices, I simply didn't see the need for those. On the other hand, I'm almost always carrying the ultralight Amazon Kindle WiFi e-book reader with me on travels, and often it also lives inside my coat pocket.
When the Amazon Kindle Fire was announced along with a cheap price tag and a size mostly comparable with the Kindle WiFi, I wanted to find out how useful it is and how well does it really work. I also knew that content services (books, magazines, videos, music, apps) are the main selling point for the device, and being an European - Finnish, currently living in Germany - I would probably be missing out on a lot, at least initially.
In this article I've collected my initial experiences, and I will continue to update this as I discover more, or as the Amazon offering gets updated.
Last Updated: 14th February 2012