Kindle Fire: One week after.

It has been one week since Amazon Kindle Fire arrived and there are a lot of things to say about it.

Let’s start with the good things.

• The 7-inch tablet form factor is easy to hold with one hand.
• Kindle Fire interface is visually pleasing.
• Amazon Prime video streaming works really well (with good Internet connection, obviously).
• Good color reproduction and viewing angle. Thanks to the IPS screen.
• The User Interface is pretty responsive, in general.
• The ability to sideload Android apps not from Amazon Appstore.

Here comes the bad things:

• Bad power/lock button. It’s at the “bottom” of the Kindle Fire and easily pressed by accident.
• No hardware volume buttons.
• On-screen keyboard feels “floaty”.
• 1024×600 screen ratio in landscape mode is hard to look at, especially for web-browsing and email.
• Sluggish screen redraw.

There a re still a lot to say about Kindle Fire. Amazon can easily fix a lot of the issues through software updates.