Today we present a comparison of two tablets that seem predestined to lead the market in a short time. Both have several aspects in common. The most obvious are the price ($ 199) and the size of your screens (7 '' each), but also the fact that two of the most powerful commercial brands with the greatest media presence today (Amazon y Google) are behind two devices.
To begin with, we must say that it is not a completely fair fight, because between the launch of one and the other there are close to one year difference and that in terms of technological development, as we know, It's a world. Kindle Fire began to be sold in the fall of last year, approximately; while Nexus 7 is fresh out of the oven. In fact, a fairer fight will ensue when Amazon delivers its new device, which is expected soon. That will be the moment when we can really appreciate the strength of the two bets; And yet surely the battle will continue to be fought over time through new versions (and more versions) of each of the two devices; as it happens, saving the distances, with FIFA and Pro Evolution Soccer or Madrid and Barça.
Well, back to the present, the difference of a year from Kindle Fire to Nexus 7 materializes, of course, in the quality of its components. to get started the screen The Nexus 7 has a somewhat better resolution, 1280 × 800, and a pixel density of 216 by 1024 × 600 than the Kindle Fire and 170 pixels. Nexus is slightly finer and slightly longer than its competitor, but both are exactly the same width. In addition, Nexus incorporates a frontal camera while Kindle Fire does not bring any camera.
At the hardware of both devices there are also notable differences. Nexus has a processor quad core Tegra 3, and in the graphic section with Nvidia core-12 technology and 1024 MB of RAM. Its internal memory has 8 or 16 gigabytes of capacity, depending on the version, and its battery charge is 4325 mAh. On the other side, the Fire has a processor of dual core 1 GHz and 512 MB of RAM. The battery supports a 4400 mAh charge, which would translate into around seven and a half hours of continuous video playback before running out.
But although in terms of hardware the comparison seems disparate, it is in the field of software where the differences really stand out, even though both devices have Android as their operating system. Kindle Fire runs a version of the 2.3 Modified Gingerbread. In addition, the relationship of the device with the Amazon store is highly determined by the functions of this operating system, so installing any other version on our own can lead to functionality problems. Nexus 7, on the other hand, runs the brand new 4.1 Android Jelly Bean, which means that through this tablet we will have access to any Google Play application, with hardly any exception, and the operating system updates will come directly from Google.
However, it should also be noted that both tablets were designed to different uses. Nexus 7 was designed in order to explode to the maximum the huge repository of multimedia applications that Google Play, including the most advanced games to date. On the contrary, Kindle Fire was born as a kind of extension of the Amazon eReader, thinking of offering users a support to consume other types of content straight from the store, such as movies, music, and some apps. However, the new version of the Kindle tablet promises to put the batteries. In terms of hardware, of course, and in terms of software, we will see how far the price goes of depending on good communication with Amazon to continue to maintain its ecosystem.