It instantly reminded me of the General Electric FM clock radio I had when I was a kid, and not in a good way. The tablet's petit frame likely pushed Amazon to shed stereo speakers in favor of a mono rear-facing speaker, which sounds tinny as all get-out.
At 7 inches and 1024 x 600 pixels, the screen is as small and low-res as the first Kindle Fire in 2011-barely bigger than a Plus-sized iPhone, which is too tiny to really immerse you in media. There is simply too much Amazon goodness to fit on a device this limited. If you join Amazon’s $100-per-year Prime service, your Fire will come stuffed with plenty of perks to enjoy, including gritty original TV shows like The Man in the High Castle.īut, stuffed is exactly how the Fire 7 will feel, almost immediately.
From books to movies to games, this serves it all up on a bigger screen than your smartphone.Īmazon has so much content to sell and share that it redesigned Google’s Android operating system to do it, adding a page on the Fire 7's home screen for every type of media it offers. Like its siblings, the 8-inch Fire HD 8 and 10-inch Fire HD 10, the Fire 7 is an almost suspiciously affordable device meant to give you a window into all of Amazon's digital services. Unfortunately, once you dig in, you'll find the Fire 7 is more of a toy than the real deal. Grant, you can get a whiff of what it’s like to own a tablet. Think on that for a minute-for one Ulysses S. The Amazon Fire 7 is a tablet you can buy for $50.