Comments on: Kindle Fire HD: first impressions

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:51:55 +0000

Thanks for writing, lulubelle!

Reading your Kindle Fire in the sun is like reading your cellphone in the sun. They have similar technology, although I will say I find the Fire a bit easier than my Samsung Captivate. It won’t be like reading your other Kindle, which had a very different technology.

I never have trouble shading it enough to read, though…

By: lulabelle

lulabelle — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:15:43 +0000

Hi my trusty kindle has now died and i am looking at a kindle fire hd but i have one question that i am struggling to find an answer for anywhere. Have you tried it in sunlight? I like to read on holiday but i don’t know how easy or difficult it would be to read in the sunlight which is the only thing holding me back from buying one otherwise i like it had a play today in a shop and i really do like it. It is only the sunlight thing that concerns me.

By: christopher

christopher — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:34:46 +0000

Hi thanks for answering…will youtube work on the kindle fire hd is freedi youtube downloader app be available? Are we really limited without flash? And are there good reasonable apps available?

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:29:54 +0000

Thanks for writing, christopher!

The pictures and videos that you put on your Kindle Fire 1st Generation are not stored in the Gallery app: they are just displayed by it. Your Kindle Fire HD will already have an app on it to display photos: the Gallery app will not be available for download to it (and you won’t need it).

Copy the files from your KF1 to a computer before you get your KFHD, then put them on the new device, if you’d like them there.

By the way, not all of the apps you have for your KF1 will be available to download to your KFHD, if they are not compatible with it.

By: christopher

christopher — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:31:30 +0000

Hi love ur bloc. My question is this: u have a kindle fire one I’m gonna buy the kindle fire hd…..on my first kindle there is my gallery full of music videos and pics….when I buy my new kindle and download all my apps from my amazon account to my kindle hd will all my pics and music videos be inside my gallery app?

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:06:19 +0000

Thanks for writing, vanessa!

Sorry to hear that!

First, try this:

Unplug it.

Hold the power button in for a full thirty seconds.

Leave it off for a minute after that.

Start it up again with the power button.

If that doesn’t work, contact Kindle Support at

http://www.amazon.com/kindlesupport

By: vanessa

vanessa — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:46:02 +0000

Hi! I need some help!! I’ve just been given a Kindle Fire HD 7″ I was goofing around with it when it just froze, so I turned it off (pressing the power button for 20 secs) It didn’t turn back on so I just left it an in the morning plugged it into the wall with my adaptor (input AC 100.240- we have 240 here). I saw a battery sign in the middle of the screen so I left it charging but now there’s nothing on the screen and I can’t turn it on! PLEASE HELPPPPP

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:20:41 +0000

Thanks for writing, Virginia!

I need to test it systematically (by taking my Kindle Fire 1 and Kindle Fire HD side by side and using a bright light. Maybe this weekend.

We have to be clear, though…glare is not the issue in reading outside in bright sunlight, generally. The issue with sunlight with a backlit device is that you are seeing what’s on the screen by a light coming from behind the image. That light is competing with the light of the sun, which is hitting the screen from the front. Having zero glare would not solve that problem.

Glare has to do with light reflecting back off the glass. If a surface is less reflective, that will reduce glare, which is what I think Amazon has done with the Kindle Fire HD.

That will help, but I really don’t see glare very much on my KF1. I just don’t angle it in such a way that I could see the disc of the sun reflected in the screen.

I’ll report back on it when I have tested it.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:55:15 +0000

Have you had a chance to check out the glare factor on the 7″ HD yet?

By: Bufo Calvin

Bufo Calvin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:33:09 +0000

Thanks for writing, Karen!

Yes, that’s right…support for Flash has changed.

I use the pro version of this app for radio:

TuneIn Radio Pro

That one is ninety-nine cents…there is also a free version.

I’m not sure if K-Love is on there…they have a lot. There were several similarly titled stations, but you can search by location as well.

Edited to add: I got the Maxthon browser from their own site…that probably does Flash, although I’m not sure.