Kindle Fire is an excellent tablet pc announced by Amazon, its announcement sets a serious threat to Apple’s iPad 2. Without too many advertisement, it gets several million pre-order. I guess no tablet pc ever gets such a pre-order except iPad series.But A new tablet pc will built a serious threat to Kindle Fire next year, it is an pretty robust tablet pc too, Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime. Let’ s compare some features of them first.
CPU
Kindle Fire ships with an ARM-based dual-core OMAP processor. For a 7-inch tablet, a dual core processor is enough to perform incredible. But as boast to be the first tablet ever to feature NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor, Asus’ next version Eee Pad Transformer has grabbed much attention. This processor will perform several times faster than the current dual core processors.
Operating System
Amazon runs on Android 2.3 os, while Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is to come with Honeycomb 3.2, the latest version of the Android for tablets. People take it for grant the later,the batter, it is true.
Display
As a a 7-inch tablet, Amazon Kindle Fire is uncomparable with Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
Kindle Fire has display with resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels while Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime coms with a a 10.1-inch LED backlit Super IPS+ display with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. Absolutely, the latter is larger and better.
Memory
Kindle Fire has a poor 8GB internal storage but it boasts to support unlimited cloud storage. Transformer Prime is to come with 1GB RAM, 32GB or 64GB internal storage. In addition, it supports external memory extended up to 32GB
Price
Price is one thing that places the tablets in different platforms. Kindle Fire comes with a price of just $199. Meanwhile, Prime will be priced around $500. The transformer Prime is more brilliant with advanced tech specs and features,
being expensive is definitely.
The verdict
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, undoubtedly one of the top Android tablets ever, is rated by many reviewers as second best Android tablet after Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. This shows Taiwan technology firm’s intention to penetrate into the industry and expand its market share in the coming years.
On the other hand, Amazon comes into the tablet market with an aim to beat down Apple iPad in a fray. The company announced the tablet version of its Kindle to simply take on iPad. The Kindle Fire is with many deficiencies as a full-fledged tablet, however. It does not feature any cameras any several other advanced multimedia aspects. However, as Amazon envisaged, Kindle Fire is a color and multimedia version of Kindle eReaders. Its low price tag is another thing that will attract many more customers. Although it is far from being a top end tablet pc, its basic function such as playing video is enough for general use, if you want to watch HD videos from HD camcorders, Video Converter is a good assistant for you to convert various HD videos to MP4 for Kindle Fire. If you are a Mac user, Video Editor for Mac is suit for you
