![]() In short, the Kindle can be upgraded to include the Google Play Store, which opens up the limited Kindle to a much broader selection of apps than Amazon intended, including Gmail, Chrome, and the writer’s friends, Google Docs and Microsoft Word - apps that Amazon does not make available through its own App Store. However, like the wardrobe in the Narnia books, the device harbours a secret - a passageway that can lead to new vistas. On its own, the Fire 7, about the size of a thin paperback novel, makes a fine ebook reader and a minimal Internet browser - nice, but unexciting. Small, I learned, could be not only beautiful, but also portable and productive.Īnd so, despite my resolve, I clicked the slightly more expensive ($70Cdn) 32GB version of the device into my shopping cart and checked it out. I’m a tablet junkie with a soft spot for minimalist writing devices that goes back to my days of writing on a Palm Pilot. The bumper case that comes with the Kids edition allows you to bounce it off the walls and floor, for sure, but unless you plan to actually do that, it doesn't add anything else to the equation.I was determined not to make any Black Friday purchases this year, but my resolve melted when Amazon offered a sale price of $50Cdn, approximately $30US, on its diminutive, discontinued, 16GB Kindle Fire 7 ereader/tablet. As I said in my review, this is a cheap tablet that's already pretty durable. Put simply, even without the bumper, the Fire 7 tablet is a tough little tablet, and even if you break it within the first two years, you're only saving $10 on a replacement. Of course, that's only if you actually break it. ![]() You would save yourself $10 in the long run. If you break it once over the course of two years and Amazon replaces it, you get $120 worth of tablets for $110. ![]() The Fire 7 tablet is $60, and this Kids tablet is $110. Some might look at that two-year guarantee and think to themselves, "If I buy this Kids tablet, I get the same Fire 7 tablet, but with a two-year guarantee, so if I break it, I can get it replaced for less money than a second Fire 7." That's a legitimate argument once you work out the math. ![]()
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