I don’t see (or am not aware of) many third party electronic accessories for non-iOS devices. It looks like the Kindle Fire has sold in enough numbers that at least one company plans to launch a $129.99 speaker and charging dock for it: The Grace FireDock. The downside is that the FireDock is not scheduled to be available until July. That’s a long ways off and I would not be too surprised if it never sees the light of day.
Jakob Nielsen took the Amazon Kindle Fire through its paces and doesn’t seem all that impressed.
Kindle Fire Usability Findings
His complaints:
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.
Here’s an important tip for Kindle Fire users from stevesounders.com. You can speed off web browsing on the Fire by turn acceleration OFF
His results showed the Kindle Fire Silk browser performed better for ever site tested with acceleration turned off. Silk performed well with acceleration turned off when compared to the iPad 2 and Galaxy 10.1.