Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn’t seem all that impressed.
Kindle Fire Usability Findings
His complaints:
- Heavy
- Lack of physical buttons
- Miserable magazine reading experience
- Slow screen updates
- Bad UI design (e.g., graphic buttons that are too small)
My take based on a brief (about an hour) use of the Kindle Fire is that it is a pretty good tablet experience for the price ($200). I would recommend it to people who don’t want to spent $500 or more for an iPad. The Kindle Fire may be the best Android tablet available at the moment in my opinion.