**Tour of Amazon Kindle Fire Operating System**

Hello everyone, I'll try to be brief here and give you guys a little example. Let me show you guys a book since I actually have some books on here.

For example, in books we have a couple of options. So we can pick from the cloud. These are all the books that I have purchased or gotten through Amazon, on top of that we can also look at the ones that are on the device itself. If we want to come over here and let's say I want to go ahead and continue reading one of these books, I can just simply tap on it. It will download and it will be on the device, and I'll be good to go.

This works really quite nicely, and I do like how they've integrated all these Amazon services. If I want to click over here, it will take me to the Amazon store where I can buy more books. Which is a kind of obvious but yeah definitely does work very nice.

I like how they did this, uh same thing goes for music, video, and all that kind of stuff. It works quite nicely. I'll kind of skip on that save on time but I will show you guys apps now.

**Amazon App Store**

Apps are well, of course, this does have an app store. It is a full tablet, and there are quite a few apps that come installed through these like Netflix, and well most of these have installed but it does come with some major ones such as the email application, Facebook, contacts, Quick Office, and a couple of others like that.

So again, this is on my device. If I had any apps I had purchased, for example, here's a couple of them that come pre-installed Pandora et cetera. I can just simply tap on them since they've been pre-purchased I suppose but they don't actually come on the device.

Again, I can come to the store and browse through. We won't get too in-depth into this part, however, there are quite a few uh different applications, and they do have one major free app every day so for example today it's going to be Joule 2 which actually I'm not probably pick that one up. I like Bejeweled.

There are lots of different apps. It's not as big of an app marketplace as, for example, the Android market which you cannot easily get on here uh you can load it if you want but it doesn't come pre-installed or anything like that.

And while I don't really have a major problem with the Amazon App Store, it is just nothing spectacular.

**Home Screen Carousel**

All right, so what about done here of course we have this little carousel. This is all of our most recent applications there's nothing we can do about this so if you want to say I want to get rid of this, you can't swipe it or anything like that basically the only way to get rid of something like this is just to let it scroll back forever.

So I mean it's nice, I mean you see here we have books, we have applications music webpage pretty much anything you do on the device will show up here but I definitely would like an option to go ahead and you know swipe some things away.

And if we want to scroll down here we have what's known as a dock. So we can add some certain things so let's say I want to add a book simply hold on add to favorites, and if we scroll down here bam we have a link to the book and of course take us right there.

**Conclusion**

This is going to be about it for my tour of the operating system on the Amazon Kindle Fire. Definitely some pros and cons uh the responsiveness isn't amazing that's kind of hard to tell on a demo you really have to get your hands on one and feel it for yourself uh for a 200 tablet I don't really have any problems but uh there's it could be a little bit quicker.

I would definitely recommend before you buy one of these to test it out and kind of get your hands on it and see how responsive it is and all that kind of stuff because it's kind of hard to show you guys in a video anyway if you enjoyed this video, definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up.

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys so today i'm here with a tour of the operating system on the amazon kindle fire i've been playing around with this for a day or so now and i've got some thoughts some good some not so good so i figured i'd go ahead and share with you guys so the first thing is that this runs on android 2.3 aka gingerbread uh now android is a very popular os for phones as many of you guys will most likely know and this is a good and bad thing now the way amazon talks is like an all-new you know they've redesigned it and they basically just kind of took some pieces of android and added a lot of their own it is true this is a very customized experience this isn't like any android device i've ever tried however android is still definitely here and uh to be honest i don't really think of this as an all-new os i really think of this as android with the skin so go ahead and give you guys a quick walk through up top left here is where our notifications are so there's it's very similar to android instead of just dragging it down you just tap it and for example here we go we have a notification error about a playback error rather so it's really nice to know we also do have our time and up here is where we go ahead and select many of our different controls now this is very important the amazon kindle fire lacks several key buttons as well as a home button and it i'm sorry as far as physical buttons go it lacks the home button as well as a volume control now this is uh this is a bit of a problem for me however all this is in the os so for example right down here tap on that that's the home button and if i want to change the volume i can certainly do that from right here now well there's nothing wrong with the way it is in the os the problem is these are kind of buttons i'd like to you know be able to have on the device so for example you know if i was listening to music last night that's actually a perfect example i was listening to music last night i was listening to one of the speakers and i plugged my headphones in and the volume i had it blasting on the speakers and i listened to it on my headphones it absolutely just blasted my ears out because i didn't change the volume and so instead of just being able to hit it real fast or anything i had to go in while i was killing my ears i had to hit this and then hit volume and then drag it down which was a big pain in the ass and it really hurt my ears so i don't mean you could be complaining or anything but it is a bit of a problem how there's no buttons like that but enough of that let's go ahead and continue on with the tour so right here we have a search menu uh now the keyboard on this is actually fantastic i really really do like it uh you know it's a nice size on a seven-inch screen so we can type out whatever we want so let's just go ahead and type out duncan 33303 yeah the keyboard i can't say enough about that um the keyboard really does work well it's very similar to the android but i believe they've reskinned it a little bit but yeah so from the search menu we can search from our library so if we had any you know video or content like that we can tap over here and search for the web so it'll pull up all kinds of web searches like that so it's kind of nice thing to do allow you to search and all that kind of stuff just straight from the device now up here we do have a variety of different like hot links to well i don't suppose not hot links but links to normal applications so for example we can go to newsstand i'll try to be brief here and give you guys a little example actually let me let me show you guys a book since i actually have some books on here so for example in books we have a couple of options so we can pick on the cloud so these are all the books that i have purchased or you know gotten through amazon on top of that we can also look at the ones that are on the device itself and if we want to come over here and let's say i want to go ahead and continue reading one of these books i can just simply tap on it and it will download and it will be on the device and i'll be good to go this works really quite nicely and i do like how they've integrated all these amazon services if i want to click over here it will take me to the amazon store where i can buy more books which is a kind of obvious but yeah definitely does work very nice i like how they did this uh same thing goes for music video all that kind of stuff it works quite nicely i'll kind of skip on that save on time but i will show you guys apps now apps are well of course this does have an app store it is a full tablet and there are quite a few apps that come installed uh installed through these like netflix and well most of these have installed but it does come with some major ones such as the email application facebook contacts quick office and a couple of others like that so again this is on my device if i had any apps i had purchased for example here's a couple of them that come pre-installed pandora et cetera i can just simply tap on them since they've been pre-purchased i suppose but they don't actually come on the device and again i can come to the store and browse through we won't get too in-depth into this part however there are quite a few uh different applications and they do have one major free app every day so for example today it's going to be joule 2 which actually i'm not to probably pick that one up i like bejeweled there are lots of different apps it's not as big of an a marketplace as for example the android market which you cannot easily get on here uh you can load it if you want but it doesn't come pre-installed or anything like that and while i don't really have a major problem with the amazon app store it is just nothing spectacular all right so what about done here of course we have this little carousel this is all of our most recent applications there's nothing we can do about this so if you want to say i want to get rid of this you can't swipe it or anything like that basically the only way to get rid of something like this is just to let it scroll back forever so i mean it's nice i mean you see here we have books we have applications music webpage pretty much anything you do on the device will show up here but i definitely would like an option to go ahead and you know swipe some things away and if we want to scroll down here we have what's known as a dock so we can add some certain things so the nice thing is we can add anything we want here so let's say i want to add a book simply hold on add to favorites and if we scroll down here bam we have a link to the book and of course take us right there so anyway guys this is going to be about it for my tour of the operating system on the amazon kindle fire definitely some pros and cons uh the responsiveness isn't amazing that's kind of hard to tell on a demo you really have to get your hands on one and feel it for yourself uh for a 200 tablet i don't really have any problems but uh there's it could be a little bit quicker i i just look at that you definitely i really recommend before you buy one of these to test it out and kind of get your hands on it and see how responsive it is and all that kind of stuff because it's kind of hard to show you guys in a video anyway if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos on the kindle fire be sure to subscribehey guys so today i'm here with a tour of the operating system on the amazon kindle fire i've been playing around with this for a day or so now and i've got some thoughts some good some not so good so i figured i'd go ahead and share with you guys so the first thing is that this runs on android 2.3 aka gingerbread uh now android is a very popular os for phones as many of you guys will most likely know and this is a good and bad thing now the way amazon talks is like an all-new you know they've redesigned it and they basically just kind of took some pieces of android and added a lot of their own it is true this is a very customized experience this isn't like any android device i've ever tried however android is still definitely here and uh to be honest i don't really think of this as an all-new os i really think of this as android with the skin so go ahead and give you guys a quick walk through up top left here is where our notifications are so there's it's very similar to android instead of just dragging it down you just tap it and for example here we go we have a notification error about a playback error rather so it's really nice to know we also do have our time and up here is where we go ahead and select many of our different controls now this is very important the amazon kindle fire lacks several key buttons as well as a home button and it i'm sorry as far as physical buttons go it lacks the home button as well as a volume control now this is uh this is a bit of a problem for me however all this is in the os so for example right down here tap on that that's the home button and if i want to change the volume i can certainly do that from right here now well there's nothing wrong with the way it is in the os the problem is these are kind of buttons i'd like to you know be able to have on the device so for example you know if i was listening to music last night that's actually a perfect example i was listening to music last night i was listening to one of the speakers and i plugged my headphones in and the volume i had it blasting on the speakers and i listened to it on my headphones it absolutely just blasted my ears out because i didn't change the volume and so instead of just being able to hit it real fast or anything i had to go in while i was killing my ears i had to hit this and then hit volume and then drag it down which was a big pain in the ass and it really hurt my ears so i don't mean you could be complaining or anything but it is a bit of a problem how there's no buttons like that but enough of that let's go ahead and continue on with the tour so right here we have a search menu uh now the keyboard on this is actually fantastic i really really do like it uh you know it's a nice size on a seven-inch screen so we can type out whatever we want so let's just go ahead and type out duncan 33303 yeah the keyboard i can't say enough about that um the keyboard really does work well it's very similar to the android but i believe they've reskinned it a little bit but yeah so from the search menu we can search from our library so if we had any you know video or content like that we can tap over here and search for the web so it'll pull up all kinds of web searches like that so it's kind of nice thing to do allow you to search and all that kind of stuff just straight from the device now up here we do have a variety of different like hot links to well i don't suppose not hot links but links to normal applications so for example we can go to newsstand i'll try to be brief here and give you guys a little example actually let me let me show you guys a book since i actually have some books on here so for example in books we have a couple of options so we can pick on the cloud so these are all the books that i have purchased or you know gotten through amazon on top of that we can also look at the ones that are on the device itself and if we want to come over here and let's say i want to go ahead and continue reading one of these books i can just simply tap on it and it will download and it will be on the device and i'll be good to go this works really quite nicely and i do like how they've integrated all these amazon services if i want to click over here it will take me to the amazon store where i can buy more books which is a kind of obvious but yeah definitely does work very nice i like how they did this uh same thing goes for music video all that kind of stuff it works quite nicely i'll kind of skip on that save on time but i will show you guys apps now apps are well of course this does have an app store it is a full tablet and there are quite a few apps that come installed uh installed through these like netflix and well most of these have installed but it does come with some major ones such as the email application facebook contacts quick office and a couple of others like that so again this is on my device if i had any apps i had purchased for example here's a couple of them that come pre-installed pandora et cetera i can just simply tap on them since they've been pre-purchased i suppose but they don't actually come on the device and again i can come to the store and browse through we won't get too in-depth into this part however there are quite a few uh different applications and they do have one major free app every day so for example today it's going to be joule 2 which actually i'm not to probably pick that one up i like bejeweled there are lots of different apps it's not as big of an a marketplace as for example the android market which you cannot easily get on here uh you can load it if you want but it doesn't come pre-installed or anything like that and while i don't really have a major problem with the amazon app store it is just nothing spectacular all right so what about done here of course we have this little carousel this is all of our most recent applications there's nothing we can do about this so if you want to say i want to get rid of this you can't swipe it or anything like that basically the only way to get rid of something like this is just to let it scroll back forever so i mean it's nice i mean you see here we have books we have applications music webpage pretty much anything you do on the device will show up here but i definitely would like an option to go ahead and you know swipe some things away and if we want to scroll down here we have what's known as a dock so we can add some certain things so the nice thing is we can add anything we want here so let's say i want to add a book simply hold on add to favorites and if we scroll down here bam we have a link to the book and of course take us right there so anyway guys this is going to be about it for my tour of the operating system on the amazon kindle fire definitely some pros and cons uh the responsiveness isn't amazing that's kind of hard to tell on a demo you really have to get your hands on one and feel it for yourself uh for a 200 tablet i don't really have any problems but uh there's it could be a little bit quicker i i just look at that you definitely i really recommend before you buy one of these to test it out and kind of get your hands on it and see how responsive it is and all that kind of stuff because it's kind of hard to show you guys in a video anyway if you enjoyed this video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos on the kindle fire be sure to subscribe