Tell Me Your Thoughts on the KINDLE FIRE

I looked extensively at the kindle fire and the nook tablet. For me the kindle was tying you way too much to amazon, it has no cameras and its user interface is horrible. It has almost no storage, yes you can upload to the cloud, but you only have 6GB of onboard storage, so a couple of movies, a few heavy apps and your full up. What I hated most of all was the way it was laid out, everything, yes all apps, books, magazines, everything on your device is laid out in this horrible rotating carousel. So you have to wind and wind and wind this thing around till you see the app you want to open. It wouldn't be so bad I guess if when you tried to stop on an app it suddenly jerks to the next one, opens it, then you have to close it and try again, it is way to sensitive. Also I HATED the lack of outer buttons, if you wanted to turn down your volume, you would have to go to your settings and turn it down onscreen - every time!
It is android, yes, but you can't use the market, and amazon has hardly any apps - I like apps.
I bought the lenovo ideapad (best buy $199) it is the same size, but has volume and hard "home" buttons, 2 cameras, double the storage plus an sd slot - access to android market, flash player, tabbed browsing, I really like it.
I think if you use amazon A LOT you would like it - but I don't like to be made to buy from only one place - my ideapad has a kindle app, and its an excellent ereader.

I had a Fire and returned it for an iPad. For what you want I would think a Fire would be fine. I didn't like the lack of active links on google, and it wasn't B. enough for me to read recipes in my kitchen, but those don't sound like issues you would have. It also didn't have as many apps, but that will improve over time. Memory isn't really a B. deal because you have unlimited cloud storage. That means you can buy things, download them, use them, then remove them from the device to free up space but can still download them again in the future from the cloud. My iPad is wi-fi only as well, but I have a mobile hotspot on my phone so can use it to access the internet with either the iPad or a Fire when out and about.

Thanks for the info about the sale at WalMart, my son wants a new touch for his birthday, I might get this for him instead.

I am going to be unpopular here, but the fact that we are allowing our kids to play with these things is insane....

have you given any thought to the radiation that they give off? the jury is still out on cell phones and you can even go to sites that show you what phones give off the least amounts of bad stuff ect.
but we find it ok to sit out kids down for hours on end to play with something that is giving off waves of god knows what.
Just sayin

What ever happened to flash cards, interacting with your kids, YOU being the teacher and showing them through hands on playing and teaching??
Just my little old opinon.

My husband has an iPad, which is awesome, but his work paid for it! My mom and sister-in-law each got a Kindle Fire and love them! They were fighting to keep a hold of them, as my dad, my brother and computer crazy nephew from using and playing on them!!!

Love the Kindle Fire. I don't have an ipad but my 6 year old and 14 month old have fun with the Kindle Fire (Daddy supervised of course).

I love my Kindle Fire. For me there are plenty of apps and storage. I have no problems reading my favorite magazines or watching movies on it. Before buying make sure you can download the games you want for your son.

My 8, 6, and 4 year old got them for Christmas. Best purchase!

They can watch movies, play games, search the web, etc. They take them with us so they can watch downloaded movies and play downloaded games. They read books. My daughter has a text app where she can text her friends.

The B. drawback is they don't have the wi-fi option. We don't want to pay another $90 a month for wifi ($30 on each device from Verizon) so we went this route. Plus 3 of them with protection plans was over $800...and that's a far cry from the cost of 3 iPad2's.

I think they are great though. Perfect for my kiddo's!