Amazon Silk Browser On The Kindle Fire – BWOne.com
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bwone.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: plus.google.com Facebook: facebook.com Empire Avenue: empireavenue.com Web browser on mobile devices is a huge feature that is sometimes a deal breaker for someone if the experience is not good. Right now the top browsers on tablets is Safari on the iPad using Apple’s iOS platform and Android 3.o Honeycomb browser. Amazon looks to get in the ranks of top tablet browsers and at the same time create a better experience with Amazon Silk. The web browser looks like any other browser you would see on android. The interface isn’t anything that revolutionary or something you have to learn. Its familiar and you’ll know how to use it right away. What’s different is what’s happening in the background. Amazon is offloading all the complex and resource intensive parts of loading a webpage to their servers to get the page to load faster and more accurate to get close to a desktop link experience. For example Flash is processed on their servers while just a simple frame render is done on the tablet. In theory this should increase the speed in which pages load and the responsiveness of these pages once they load up. Offloading a big element like flash should make web browsing a lot better and give oyu access to many sites that still rely heavily on flash and haven’t covered to a mobile page or to HTML 5 yet. It works well and gets you to pages faster and plays resource heavy content a lot better. The smoothest of the browser needs to improved and …
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.
Amazon Kindle Fire- Internet Browsing with Amazon Silk
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This video shows the speed of the Amazon Silk browser. Specs: 7″ multi-touch display, 1024×600 pixel resolution 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45 14.6 ounces 8GB internal storage, unlimited cloud storage for amazon content up to 8 hours battery (reading), or 7.5hrs video playback Check out Kindle Fire on Amazon at www.amazon.com My Kindle Video Playlist: www.youtube.com Visit our website at www.gamertechy.com
