do you like your kindle fire?

Hi Chris, Kindle Fire was pretty popular initially because of all the hype that Amazon created in the press before anyone could see or touch the device. A lot of people pre-ordered it and now if you look at Amazon's own web site reviews of the device there's a lot of disappointed folks out there that left 1-2 start reviews (close to 1800 by now.) Nook Tablet - according to pro reviews on the web - is a class above Kindle Fire in terms of hardware and performance. Per reviews out there, Nook has a much better screen and a much better/smoother performance while playing movies than choppy Kindle Fire's act. It has double the RAM and is much zippier than Fire in both booting times and loading apps. It has microSD slot (not on Kindle) for more content space (and you can have more than one card) and rooting without voiding the warranty. Also, Nook Tablet has physical volume controls on the side (not on Kindle) and built-in microphone (not on Kindle) for Skype. Nook Tablet has to offer the same things that Kindle has and more - It's got Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Angry Brids etc., the best battery life (30% better than Fire), the best non-glare laminated screen (no lamination on Fire), double the RAM and space for apps/photos/movies than on Fire. Amazon Prime is worthless - 13,000 movies and 10,000 books are included while Netflix has millions of movies and B&N ebook store has more content than Amazon's with 2.5 million paid books and 2 million free public domain ones. Also it's worth mentioning that if you walk in with any Nook to Barnes & Noble store, you'll get tech support and you’re allowed to read ANY available eBook for free while in the store via free provided in the store Wi-Fi.

Reported issues with Kindle Fire are that it runs hot to touch, video playback is jerky, touch screen is not responsive and it takes 2-3 touches to register, power button placement is very poor and is prone to accidental power off, all the hype of Silk browser is not true where the browsing is actually slower than on other Android tablets, Wi-Fi connection gives a lot of trouble to users on it, etc.

Take the spammer above me with a grain of salt. He's obviously an employee of B&N and has been spreading disinformation for quite some time.

Go to Amazon and B&N and read actual reviews of both tablets. While the Nook Tablet does have more space, it's actually misleading. You can only use 1GB of space for items that were not purchased from B&N, which means that if you plan to load your own videos or music then you have no choice but to buy an expansion card and use the expansion slot. B&N doesn't sell music or video, you have to purchase these through third party apps. Amazon sells both, so you can buy directly from them or use the exact same third party apps. B&N doesn't offer cloud storage. Amazon does.

But read actual reviews. The Kindle Fire now has 9,358 reviews. Of those, 1799 (19%) are 2 stars or less. This means that 81%, or 7,559 people who bought the Kindle Fire and reviewed it are happy with it. The Nook Tablet was released at the same time as the Kindle Fire. It currently has 318 reviews. Of those 318, 48 (15%) are two stars or lower. The percentage of happy users is pretty much the same between the two devices. But the Nook Tablet is obviously not selling very well compared to the Kindle Fire.

Amazon has a much more robust ecosystem than B&N and is more likely to survive. The Nook Tablet looks like a huge failure, although we're unlikely to see actual sales figures released.

Mine's happily rooted & what I've installed so far... Below are the range of rooted & game apps...

Useful apps on my rooted KF: Burrito root, Titanium backup, Setcpu, App2SD, Link2SD (to push all apps from application storage to Internal storage), Ad free (disable ads), SD card increase (increase bulit in SD card reading speed), Closefeint (disable openfeint), Astro file manager, Gmail (Email), Chainfire 3D (gaming purpose), Orbot (Proxy surfing), Dolphin browser HD, Marketplace, screen off widget (soft button)...

Current games installed on rooted KF: Where's my water (full), Totemo HD (full), Sprinkle (full), Angry Gran (free), Monopoly HD (full), Bag it (full), Blowup (full), Blockbreaker 3 (full), Beyond Ynth (full), Buka HD (full), Burn the city (full), death worm (full), Evac HD (full), Fire & dice (full), Fishing diary (full), Grow (full), Hard lines HD (full), Cut the cheese (full), Banzai blowfish (full), Multiponk (full), where's waldo (full), radiant HD (full), pollushot (full), Shine runner (full), scrubs (full), Tilestorm HD (full), World of Goo (full), Traffic Panic (full), 460 MP3 songs & still going...