Amazon Silk Browser for Kindle Fire Hands-On – BWOne.com
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bwone.com Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: facebook.com Empire Avenue: empireavenue.com The Kindle Fire comes with a new browser call Amazon Silk. The Silk browser splits resources between the device and Amazon’s EC2 cloud servers to render pages faster and smoother. The EC2 cloud servers will do the heavy processing power for most of the sites you will visit and will cache the content for you for quick load times and save power on the Kindle Fire. Other browsers have tried something similar to this like Skyfire but not with the power that Amazon’s servers have. Watch the video below as it will give you a better idea of how Amazon Silk works and cuts page loading times in half. Makes you wonder if they will make a desktop version and/or offer this on other mobile OS platforms and join a very crowded browser market.
@xynj0yanthe Not sure, but i have heard that if you root it you can get all of those.
@BoomSquad21SS Why? Cause it has more ram? Agreed, i wish the Fire had 1gb ram, but aside from that, Nook Tablet has nothing on the Fire. I’ve had my hands on both.
@erasersrox345 Kindle Fire 100% I had Nook Color, got rid of it to get the Fire.
OPERA and Opera Mini for cellphones/tablets, with its Turbo function, does the same thing
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And it’s been doing it for almost 10 years now
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All amazon did was copy what Opera engineers were already doing. Amazon did not invent anything new
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Nook Tablet is better
@TheStefanJohn you CAN watch videos, i saw it in a nother review. you can even pinch and zoom WHILE you watch the video (:
if someone doesnt fucking tell me if you can watch youtube videos i swear to god ill shoot a baby… right now. in my hand. gun and babe.
@Jacksparrow1869 you can both
@erasersrox345 Get both and have a 3some
can you play youtube on kindle fire they showw all this stuff but ,i want to c hulu and youtube are the main ones if u canot get thouse apps well i wont get it …
he wouldn’t be a sales person would he?
@erasersrox345 kindle fire. ive had them bothe and ive droped them both (on axcedint) (spelling that wrong) (i think) but the first time i droped my nook color the screen cracked right away. the first time i droped my kindle fire there was no damage doen to it what so ever.
@BOBBY87265 I have a subscription with questia, an online library. Can I use Questia on kindle fire ?
Kindle Fire + Root = $300 discount on a full Android tablet.
Too many limitations with this device. Too much tying to Amazon exclusively. Before you get a boner over this browser, look at Opera for Android. It does the same things and probably more. And zoomed image quality has nothing to do with the display but with the resolution of the image being zoomed. What a joke. Nook 2 limits non B&N app space to 1gb. I got a cheap $180 Vizio and it has camera, can be rooted, has microphone, and runs apps off 32gb SD card not cloud space needing internet.
Its unbelievable how everyone says “unbelievable” about everything.
kindle fire: because it overheats:)
no just kiddin’, but i cant really decide.
@erasersrox345 i think a kindle fire. but a nook tablet pwns both.
kindle fire the next gen tablet
@erasersrox345 KINDLE FIRE TRUST ME TRUST ME
@sprite4u what do you mean?
@erasersrox345 Nook may have the better specs, but the Kindle Fire makes it up with better content, user interface, and increased memory due to its cloud capabilities. If you need any more questions, ask away. Looking at the user interface of the Nook, it looks pretty clunky compared to the simplicity of the Kindle Fire’s which is a matter of taste in the end.
@muchdrama flash is dead
@erasersrox345 KINDLE FIRE trust me i have the nook color and i have tested this out (i dont own yet) and trust me on this the kindle fire is better than any nook
pinch & zoon is choppy – it’s like that on all android devices. Oh well, $199 – i’m getting one!