Review & Comparison: Nexus 7 Vs Kindle Fire | User Manual Pdf-
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Nexus 7’s Tegra 3 CPU clocks in at 1.15Ghz when running on all four cores whereas the Fire runs on a dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor. The Kindle possesses 512MB of RAM with 8GB internal storage, so it has sizably less capacity than the Nexus’ 16GB or 32GB options and 1GB of RAM.
All that storage space comes in handy given the amount of media applications and files that I could download or transfer into the Nexus 7. Of course the operating system plays a big part, and here again the 7 has the clear advantage as it runs on the latest version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, in sharp contrast to the Kindle Fire running on the aging Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which was stripped down and customized to suit Amazon’s needs.
The ridges around the 0.41”-thick sides of the Nexus has slots for MicroUSB and a single 3.55mm audio jack, ditto for the Kindle except it has a regular USB port instead of MicroUSB. I found neither device had superior audio quality, but I definitely had more audio options to choose from in the Google Play Store as opposed to the Fire which is extremely limited. When outdoors with ambient noises all around, the Nexus 7’s audio is rather poor both in quality and volume. The sound got totally drowned out whenever I’m in a crowd, like at the train station- exactly the kind of place where I need music!
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The first thing I noticed about the 16GB Nexus 7 was how classy it looked. Unlike other Android devices manufactured by Samsung, HTC, and Motorola, Nexus 7 is built by ASUS which has a rather stellar reputation for producing stylish tablet hardware. With it’s matte-black, dimpled back piece and Corning Gorilla Glass display protection for screen and bezel, the Nexus 7 looks and feels like a stylized, rounded leather case (Head of Android product design Matias Duarte told The Verge the intent was to mimic the feel of leather driving gloves “Steve McQueen style”).
The appearance also contributes towards the overall feeling of durability projected by the diminutive tablet, seemingly much more scratch- and smudge-resistant than the Kindle Fire. Fractionally taller than the Fire at 7.8” x 4.7”, Nexus 7 fits comfortably in one hand, weighing in at a mere 0.74 pounds compared to Kindle Fire’s 0.9 pounds. The bezel around the screen seems unnecessarily wide given how small the actual screen is , but proves handy when I want to grip it around the edges for easy reading.
Bottomline: The Nexus 7 looks and feels way better than not only the Fire, but any other tablet in a similar price range.
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Review & Comparison: Nexus 7 Vs Kindle Fire | User Manual Pdf-
|
| Google Images |
Function
Nexus 7’s Tegra 3 CPU clocks in at 1.15Ghz when running on all four cores whereas the Fire runs on a dual-core 1GHz Cortex-A9 processor. The Kindle possesses 512MB of RAM with 8GB internal storage, so it has sizably less capacity than the Nexus’ 16GB or 32GB options and 1GB of RAM.
All that storage space comes in handy given the amount of media applications and files that I could download or transfer into the Nexus 7. Of course the operating system plays a big part, and here again the 7 has the clear advantage as it runs on the latest version of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, in sharp contrast to the Kindle Fire running on the aging Android 2.3 Gingerbread, which was stripped down and customized to suit Amazon’s needs.
The ridges around the 0.41”-thick sides of the Nexus has slots for MicroUSB and a single 3.55mm audio jack, ditto for the Kindle except it has a regular USB port instead of MicroUSB. I found neither device had superior audio quality, but I definitely had more audio options to choose from in the Google Play Store as opposed to the Fire which is extremely limited. When outdoors with ambient noises all around, the Nexus 7’s audio is rather poor both in quality and volume. The sound got totally drowned out whenever I’m in a crowd, like at the train station- exactly the kind of place where I need music!
Form
The first thing I noticed about the 16GB Nexus 7 was how classy it looked. Unlike other Android devices manufactured by Samsung, HTC, and Motorola, Nexus 7 is built by ASUS which has a rather stellar reputation for producing stylish tablet hardware. With it’s matte-black, dimpled back piece and Corning Gorilla Glass display protection for screen and bezel, the Nexus 7 looks and feels like a stylized, rounded leather case (Head of Android product design Matias Duarte told The Verge the intent was to mimic the feel of leather driving gloves “Steve McQueen style”).
The appearance also contributes towards the overall feeling of durability projected by the diminutive tablet, seemingly much more scratch- and smudge-resistant than the Kindle Fire. Fractionally taller than the Fire at 7.8” x 4.7”, Nexus 7 fits comfortably in one hand, weighing in at a mere 0.74 pounds compared to Kindle Fire’s 0.9 pounds. The bezel around the screen seems unnecessarily wide given how small the actual screen is , but proves handy when I want to grip it around the edges for easy reading.
Bottomline: The Nexus 7 looks and feels way better than not only the Fire, but any other tablet in a similar price range.
[free download user manual pdf kindle fire vs nexus 7 here]
[free download user manual pdf kindle fire vs nexus 7 here]