Kindle Fire is not the champion for Android tablets, but it is the right product for Amazon.
I watched review and comparison videos on YouTube as I have not bought a Kindle Fire yet. From those videos I had the impression that Kindle Fire is not as fast as Apple's iPad 2. The page loading and refresh speed is slower than that on iPad 2. The touch response does not seems to be as smooth. By most measures for a web browsing device and a game console, I doubt it can compete with iPad 2. Nevertheless, I still think it is a good and smart product.
I have complained about last generation's Kindle reader earlier this year. This new generation of Kindle answered my complaints. The touch screen takes away the clumsiness for users to interact with contents. Compared with the previous generation, Kindle Fire provides all the needed improvements in terms of color display, faster page flipping and rendering. It also provides a comparable video experience as iPad 2. Given its price, it is an adequate tablet but an outstanding content viewer. It is exactly right up Amazon's alley for all the digital contents it wants to sell.
Kindle Fire is a smart product with a right compromise and feature focus. I may buy one for my daughter to read on. But I am sure she will ask for my iPad when it comes to Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. Young users do not settle for their game experiences.
