The intention for the Fire HDX 8.9 in landscape is notable by the Amazon logo on the back and the placement of the cameras – both back and front are placed in the middle on the top of the device when in landscape. It’s a little indirect too, since the speakers are placed on the back panel – a front-facing solution would offer a much more immersive experience. Soundtracks can sound a little strained at either end of the frequency range and ultimately lack depth, though.
Sound from them is passable, doing a good job with pushing dialogue forward. The stereo speakers on the Fire HDX 8.9 are well placed along the top-edge on either side of the tablet. It does fall down on organisation, though – give it a complicated orchestral track, or a busy, riff-heavy rock recording, and it can lose its composure somewhat and get a little flustered.
There’s a decent amount of detail retrieval for what we’ve come to expect on a tablet, though something like the Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact will give you a touch more insight. Plug in some headphones and fire up a WAV CD-rip and you’re presented with a full-bodied, well balanced sound. When it comes to music, the Fire HDX 8.9 offers a promising performance too.
Another important win for a tablet based around content. And viewing angles are good its bright screen making it usable in sunlight without any problem.īattery life on the Fire HDX 8.9 is extremely impressive in our battery rundown test, looping a 720p-video at half brightness with wi-fi on, it managed 14 hours and 13 minutes, four hours longer than the iPad. Outlines are crisp and clean, and it does a superb job at digging out fine detail in scenes, dealing particularly well with textures and giving depth and believability to landscapes.Ĭontrast handling is strong too: blacks are deep and detailed, and whites are bright if a little flat and unsubtle at times. The screen is bright and colours are rich and vibrant, yet accurate and well balanced. Its 8.9in screen is a stunner, matching the Samsung Galaxy Tab S for resolution at 2560 x 1600 and packing in 339ppi. There is a slight delay on pressing the unlock button to the screen waking, which is a small niggle, but other than that, everything we did was as quick as we wanted it to be.įor a device so based around content, the display on the Fire is an important part for Amazon to get right, and it absolutely has. We’ve had multiple tabs on the Silk browser open, a book on the go, jumped in to a film and downloaded apps, and we never once saw it slow up. When it comes to performance, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is no slouch thanks to its 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB RAM. If you prefer to download, you’ll want to be sure Amazon’s offering floats your boat before jumping in. There’s no Tidal just yet, but we did find Qobuz, meaning streaming from other sources is pretty well catered for.
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That said, despite being a competitor to Amazon’s Prime Video service, Netflix is available to download - as are the likes of BBC iPlayer, Spotify, Deezer and Rdio. We also found some gaps in major control apps for kit – Onkyo and Sonos are there for example, but Pioneer and Yamaha are nowhere to be seen. Unlike Google, Amazon verifies every app in its store, which can take time. While there have been big improvements to ensure the majority of them are there, you will find some missing or delayed. The video and music side of things is pretty well stocked but it’s apps that are of biggest concern.
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There’s no access to the Google Play app store like you’ll get on regular Android tablets - only Amazon’s own, and therefore it can feel rather restricted. The only snag? All of the content you buy on this tablet will be from Amazon and Amazon alone. It’s a neat ecosystem that makes browsing, buying and consuming content very easy indeed. That’s not necessarily a bad thing – the selection is superb and prices are competitive.
Of course you can upload your own content to the Fire HDX 8.9, but within every menu you are presented with suggestions for Amazon content. It just doesn’t make much sense otherwise. We’d usually complain about such a heavy-handed approach, but then we’d expect anyone considering buying it to already subscribe to a large chunk of Amazon’s services, or are open to the idea of it. It’s a tablet built around content, and most specifically, content from Amazon. If you’re looking for a tablet to edit documents on, produce presentations and act as a laptop alternative, you’ll need to look elsewhere – this tablet is all about music, movies and games. The Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is a tablet that puts entertainment first.
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