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by Derek Kessler Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:04 am EST

Phil, Adam, Derek, Jay, and Rene talk Amazon Kindle Fire pros and cons, Porsche's BlackBerry and phones as fashion, webOS indecisions, and Google Music vs. iTunes Match vs. Amazon Cloud vs. Zune Pass and more! This is Mobile Nations!

Agenda

Hosts

  • Phil Nickinson (@philnickinson) of Android Central
  • Adam Zeis (@azeis) of CrackBerry.com
  • Derek Kessler (@dkdsgn) of PreCentral.net
  • Jay Bennett (@JayTBennet of WPCentral
  • Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) of TiPb.com

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    Credits

    Our music is pROgraM vs. Us3R by by morgantj. Introduction by Joseph Holder.

    Thanks to the Mobile Nations network of store for sponsoring this podcast, and to our fantastic live chat members for keeping us honest and making us smart!

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    2 Comments

    Posted by bedhan on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:00 pm EST

    I think the reviews of the kindle fire were fair since most of them indicated it did not do what an ipad did but was "good enough" for $200 but had concerns.

    The kindle fire is a 10x6 tablet which will not output HD video even though it plays videos well. The Nook has the same issue. It also does not do a good job of allowing you to read books and magazines well since it has the wrong ratio for reading them and the screen is too glossy especially in bright light. So in terms of a being a ebook reader it fails. Isn't that the main point of being a kindle? They should have called it something else then. Slow web browser is also bad but they can probably correct that. Even for a $200 tablet it should do better than that.

    Posted by Soon2B on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 9:41 pm EST

    Sounds like Derrek has a Ford Fiesta (they are a sweet little car). I have one myself and have been enjoying it.