Bright, crisp, high-resolution (1024 x 600) capacitive touchscreen.Price: $199, with refurbs for as little as $169. But if you can work within these limits the Kindle is a business tablet bargain. But clearly, it still has a few significant limitations: It has no 3G/4G or Bluetooth support, no microSD or other memory expansion slots, no camera, and no GPS capabilities. It's possible to transform the Kindle Fire into a general-purpose Android tablet that can be used to perform many work-related tasks. But still, with $170 refurbs currently available from Amazon, the Kindle Fire's got some serious potential. With a slightly bigger budget, you might do better with Samsung's new Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, which is expected to ship next month, priced at $250. But unless you've got tiny fingers (or a great deal of dexterity), it suffers from a problem that plagues all 7-inch tablets: it's hard to type on small onscreen keyboards, and with the Kindle Fire you can't remedy that problem with a Bluetooth keyboard. In conclusion, the Kindle Fire, as modified in this article, is certainly quite usable for tasks such as Web browsing, email, instant messaging, calendar and ToDo-list access, and reading or editing MS Office-compatible documents-in addition to reading ebooks and enjoying multimedia content. You can see a side-by-side comparison of my tweaked Kindle Fire and several competing 7-inch Android tablets on my site. Now that's not to say that it doesn't have a few significant limitations. Verdict: Cheap, no-frills business tabletĬlearly, with a bit of effort it's possible to transform the Kindle Fire into a general-purpose Android tablet that can be used for performing many work-related tasks. The screenshots below show the Kindle Fire graphing a few data points on a remote Windows 7 desktop. LogMeIn's $29 LogMeIn Ignition app lets you access a remote Windows desktop, and even run Windows software remotely. MobileSystems' $15 Office Suite Professional 6 app is capable of reading, editing, and creating Microsoft Office-compatible documents. It automatically syncs these files with your desktop and mobile devices. Google's free Google Docs app reads, edits, and creates Microsoft Office-compatible text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. The free aCalendar app (below) syncs well with Google's calendar service and provides convenient day, week, and month views.
To check out the modified Kindle Fire's ability to be more than a consumer entertainment platform, I installed some Office-style apps.
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