Talk:Fire HD

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Latest comment: 2 years ago by Waarmstr in topic Importance Rating

Importance Rating

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I propose an importance rating of "Low". Please provide any feedback or comments by 00:00 27 May 2022 (UTC)

  1. I reviewed existing Low and Mid articles within Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computing.
  2. Low articles included; Talk:BlackBerry Limited, Talk:Asus EeeBook, Talk:Chromebook Pixel, Talk:Fire Phone, Talk:iPhone 4S
  3. Mid articles included; Talk:E Ink, Talk:Amazon Fire, Talk:Hitachi Data Systems*, Talk:Nvidia Tesla*
    1. * articles that are Low for WikiProject_Computing, but Mid for the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Computing/Computer_hardware_task_force)

Based on this review I suggest classifying Fire HD as "Low" - Waarmstr (talk) 15:06, 19 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

European release

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The 9 inches Kindle Fire HD has been released in France, Italy and Spain as well. --93.33.233.75 (talk) 13:19, 18 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Consideration for deletion

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I believe that content on this page should be merged with Kindle Fire. I have marked this page for deletion, unaware of any merger template available. If you find one, you can replace it. ILarsona (talk) 01:21, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

I agree. -Abhishikt (talk) 02:38, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I disagree, and oppose any merges. - BilCat (talk) 08:03, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I disagree, it's a whole new product and a new generation of the same family. - Pumapayam (talk) 16:18, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I disagree as well, as this is the second generation of the Kindle Fire series. It more than sufficiently meets the notability requirements. Mromson (talk) 16:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I don't see any reason why. I'd actually like to see another article created for the 8.9 in. version. Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 05:32, 8 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
I oppose the merge too. There are separate articles for different versions of iPad - why different generations of kindle fire shouldn't have separate articles too? Hakimio (talk) 13:46, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Create an article fork for Kindle Fire and branch off all the versions? ILarsona (talk) 18:55, 8 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Android Version

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The official Amazon specifications page for developers says that the Kindle Fire HD runs a operating system based on Android 4.0.3, not 4.0.4 as listed in the article. Can anybody else confirm this? https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/fire/specifications.html Mangoman88 (talk) 01:07, 23 September 2013 (UTC)Reply

I believe that the model numbers should be added in the tables. This is highly useful information, due to there being two different Kindle Fire HD 7" models with important differing features, the same name, but differing model numbers. This would be helpful, but less crucial, with the 8.9 models, which do have differing names (HD vs HDX). I know this from experience when shopping for a Kindle, and finding incorrect sales listings for Kindle Fire HD features that were only resolved once I found the model numbers.

Fourth generation

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My Fire HD 7 clearly says it's a fourth generation in the settings (and you can search amazon.com and find 4th gen products), but this article numbers them off-by-one (it seems). Is the device itself counting the Kindle Fire (non-HD) as the first generation getting us to the fourth.. if so, that would probably need to be mentioned here.. or rather just renumber things so they match the device and news articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.107.95.37 (talk) 05:35, 1 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

I agree, my fire says 3rd gen, but the 3rd gen on the wiki says it has a camera, which mine goes not. I think there is a missing 4th gen and the whole thing is screwed up — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.88.231.172 (talk) 02:07, 31 January 2015 (UTC)Reply

What happens is the late 2014 Fire HD tablet is the 3rd generation of the Fire HD line, but it is also part of the 4th generation of Kindle Fire tablets. It can be confusing because Amazon is using the same name for tablets each year. I added a detail about the 2014 tablets being part of the 4th generation. Frmorrison (talk) 16:20, 4 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
This needs to be noted in the article. I have updated the table to include Fire HD 6 and Fire HD 7 including the very much higher 252 PPI featured by the Fire HD 6. KJRehberg (talk) 08:38, 19 February 2015 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, the unreferenced "feature table" is somewhere between incorrect and confusing. Amazon refers to the 8.9-inch Fire HD as "second generation" [1], but this table calls the same model "first generation". -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:55, 10 May 2015 (UTC)Reply
Table still confusing - I have a second generation Fire HD 7 - no such listed Samatva (talk) 03:14, 9 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

I've added a small table to the Kindle Fire page as I was finding the whole generations issue confusing as well. Feel free to improve it. Kookiethebird (talk) 23:54, 29 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

2.5th generation?

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The table refers to a 2.5th generation for the Fire HD 8.9" tablet but is that really the case? It was only released two months after the 7" version. Kookiethebird (talk) 00:01, 30 December 2016 (UTC)Reply

New Hardware Table

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I just made a merge of the tables for Fire TV, Fire, Fire HD, and Fire HDX to unify them and make them consistent. Instead of adding extra vertical rows for the Cellular models, I added them as new columns. Since adding cellular adds a bunch of extra rows, this condenses the tables considerably and makes it more legible in my opinion. Below is the entire table. I'm posting here for comments since the Fire HD is the most common model (excuse the poor formatting/cell merging, this is just a copy/paste from Excel, mostly):

Generation 2nd generation (2012) 2nd generation (2012) 2nd generation (2012) 3rd generation (2013) 4th generation (2014) 4th generation (2014) 5th generation (2015) 5th generation (2015) 6th generation (2016)
Model Kindle Fire HD 7" Kindle Fire HD 8.9" Kindle Fire HD 8.9" + Cellular Kindle Fire HD 7" Fire HD 6" Fire HD 7" Fire HD 8" Fire HD 10" Fire HD 8"
Release date 14-Sep-12 20-Nov-12 20-Nov-12 2-Oct-13 2-Oct-14 2-Oct-14 30-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 21-Sep-16
Status 6" Current 7" Refurbished[17] 8" Discontinued 10" Current
Screen size (diagonal) 7 in (18 cm) 8.9 in (23 cm) 8.9 in (23 cm) 7 in (18 cm) 6 in (15 cm) and 7 in (18 cm) 6 in (15 cm) and 7 in (18 cm) 8 in (20 cm) and 10 in (25 cm) 8 in (20 cm) and 10 in (25 cm) 8 in (20 cm)
Resolution 1280 × 800 (216 ppi) 1920 × 1200 (254 ppi) 1920 × 1200 (254 ppi) 1280 × 800 (216 ppi) HD 6: 1280 × 800 (252 ppi) HD 7: 1280 × 800 (216 ppi) HD 8: 1280 x 800 (189 ppi) HD 10: 1280 x 800 (149 ppi) 1280 × 800 (189 ppi)
OS Based on Android 4.0.3 Based on Android 4.0.3 Based on Android 4.0.3 Fire OS 4 Fire OS 5 Fire OS 5 Fire OS 5 Fire OS 5 Fire OS 5
System Version 7.5.1[18] 8.5.1[19] 8.5.1[19] 4.5.5.1[20] 5.3.1[21][22][23][24] 5.3.1[21][22][23][24] 5.3.1[21][22][23][24] 5.3.1[21][22][23][24] 5.3.1.1[25]
CPU Maker Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Texas Instruments MediaTek MediaTek MediaTek MediaTek MediaTek
Kind Dual-core OMAP4 Dual-core OMAP4 Dual-core OMAP4 Dual-core OMAP4 Quad-core ARM big.LITTLE Quad-core ARM big.LITTLE Quad-core ARM big.LITTLE Quad-core ARM big.LITTLE Quad-core
Model 4460 HS 4470 HS 4470 HS 4470 HS MT8135V[26][27] MT8135V[26][27] MT8135V[26][27] MT8135V[26][27] MT8163V/B
Cores 2x ARM Cortex-A9 @ 1.2 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A9 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A9 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A9 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A15 @ 1.5 GHz 4x ARM Cortex-A53 @ 1.3 GHz
2x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz 2x ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1.2 GHz
Width 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 64-bit
GPU Designer Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies Imagination Technologies ARM Holdings
Kind PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR PowerVR Mali
Model SGX540 SGX544 SGX544 SGX544 G6200 G6200 G6200 G6200 T720 MP2
Clock 384 MHz[28] 384 MHz[28] 384 MHz[28] 384 MHz[28] 450 MHz 450 MHz 450 MHz 450 MHz 650 MHz [29]
OpenGL ES
Vulkan
OpenCL
Hardware Decode Support
RAM 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1 GiB 1.5 GiB
Storage Internal 16 GB or 32 GB 16 GB or 32 GB 32 GB or 64 GB 8 GB or 16 GB 8 GB or 16 GB 8 GB or 16 GB HD 8: 8–16 GB HD 10: 16–64 GB 16 GB or 32 GB
External N/A N/A N/A N/A At least up to 128 GB microSDXC At least up to 128 GB microSDXC At least up to 128 GB microSDXC
Camera Back 2 MP 2 MP 5 MP 5 MP 2MP
Front 1.3 MP HD 720p 1.3 MP HD 720p 1.3 MP HD 720p 0.3 MP VGA 0.3 MP VGA 1.3 MP HD 720p 1.3 MP HD 720p 0.3 MP VGA
Microphone Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Wireless Bluetooth Bluetooth 3.0

+ EDR

Bluetooth,3.0 + EDR Bluetooth,3.0 + EDR Bluetooth 4.0 + EDR Bluetooth 4.0 LE Bluetooth 4.0 LE Bluetooth 4.0 LE Bluetooth 4.0 LE Bluetooth 4.0 LE
(HID and A2DP profiles only) (HID and A2DP profiles only) (HID and A2DP profiles only) (HID and A2DP profiles only)
Wi-Fi Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Single-band 802.11 b/g/n Single-band 802.11 b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n Dual-band 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Cellular N/A N/A 4G LTE N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Location Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based Wi-Fi based
Proximity N/A N/A Yes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Compass N/A N/A Yes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Light sensor Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A Yes
Accelerometer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gyroscope Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Barometer N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Weight 395 g (13.9 oz) 545 g (19.2 oz) 567 g (20.0 oz) 345 g (12.2 oz) HD 6: 290 g (10 oz) HD 7: 337 g (11.9 oz) HD 8: 311 g (11.0 oz) HD 10: 432 g (15.2 oz) 341 g (12.0 oz)
Dimensions 193 mm × 137 mm × 10.3 mm 240 mm × 160 mm × 8.8 mm 240 mm × 160 mm × 8.8 mm 191 mm × 128 mm × 10.6 mm HD 6: 160 mm × 103 mm × 10.7 mm HD 7: 191 mm × 128 mm × 10.6 mm HD 8: 214 mm × 128 mm × 7.7 mm HD 10: 262 mm × 159 mm × 7.7 mm 214 mm × 128 mm × 9.2 mm
(7.60 in × 5.39 in × 0.41 in) (9.45 in × 6.30 in × 0.35 in) (9.45 in × 6.30 in × 0.35 in) (7.52 in × 5.04 in × 0.42 in) (6.30 in × 4.06 in × 0.42 in) (7.52 in × 5.04 in × 0.42 in) (8.43 in × 5.04 in × 0.30 in) (10.31 in × 6.26 in × 0.30 in) (8.43 in × 5.04 in × 0.36 in)
Battery 4400 mAh 6000 mAh 6000 mAh 4400 mAh 8.5 hours 8.5 hours 3830mAh / 8 hours 3830mAh / 8 hours 12 hours

Colin1497 (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Update 8" 2020

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Supposedly according to Geekbench here are the stats/specs for the 2020 8"

Model Amazon MFONWI - Platform Android ARMv7 - OS Android 9 - CPU. ARM MT8168A - Memory 2.72 GB - GPU Mali-G52 MC1 - Display PPI 188

I am unfamiliar with the formatting requirements to update the table, so hopefully this information is useful for whoever normally takes care of this page.