I thought the HDX would-be an upgrade and would therefore be better. I was wrong
923911
This is my 2nd kindle.  I thought the HDX would-be an upgrade and would therefore be better.  I was wrong.  This model has a tendency to freeze in the middle of an activity.  When my first kindle fire stopped working, I now wish I had just replaced it with the same model.
3853260
Not as good as i thought it was going to be - clunky interface - might get better with patches
319954
Pros: It's a great deal

Cons: You are stuck with the absolute cheapest Kindle Fire HDX possible with no chance to upgrade.  Which gives me the feeling that either the Fire TV isn't selling too well, or everyone is jumping on the higher end 7" Fire HDX or moving up to 8.9"
2883445
This was on sale for $99 on Black Friday so I thought it would be an OK, cheap option for the kids. I had low expectations for $99 (I dislike reviews where people clearly didn't understand what they were paying for), but even at that I still feel let down. On the plus side, it has a USB port and an SD card slot for importing files.

BUT...

You can't download typical apps. Forget Angry Birds. Forget YouTube. You have to use the Facebook mobile site. YouTube's webpage wouldn't load. I was able to get Gmail, but that's not exactly something I'd pay $99 for. We thought we might upgrade to Android 2.2 but the hardware under the hood still prevented the aforementioned issues. While I expected no Android Market, the Cruz Market was awful. So not much in the game department. We then got the idea that it might be a good media player- I loaded the regular SD card on, connected the USB to my computer to transfer MP3 files, and the thing then promptly crashed.

Now here's the thing: If you are going to be a paperweight that lights up, at least light up. So we had to re-set the thing and *maybe* it will be an OK media player with the SD card I supplied. Please bear in mind that we didn't just open this on Christmas, we've been tinkering with the thing since Black Friday so it would be ready out of the Box after Santa visited.  But time is money, and the low cost is cancelled out by the time suck to get the thing to be a hundred bucks wroth of useful at something. We then bought&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Coby-Kyros-7-Inch-Android-2-3-4-GB-Internet-Tablet-with-Capacitive-Touchscreen-MID7022-4G-Black/dp/B005C08UP0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Coby Kyros 7-Inch Android 2.3 4 GB Internet Tablet with Capacitive Touchscreen - MID7022-4G (Black)</a>&nbsp;and they were a superior option for the time/money.

It is an OK eReader or mobile web browser and that's about it. If that's your thing, it is more than a 2. However, if you want some typical games for the kids so they'll leave your iPad or Galaxy alone, it is lacking.
1703275
Xbox has been my choice for gaming since the original. I've never been one to invest on a midcycle console update but when I found out this had 4k abilities I was intrigued. Don't get me wrong, the console is a great redesign and it's what the Xbox one should of been, but it doesn't even work with my Samsung 4k monitor! WTH! I just dropped 350 on a new console and traded my elite for a console that doesn't even do what it says it does?! When I use 4k uhd mode my monitor just turns on and off. When I tried to trouble shoot it and used the RBG color it showed static on my monitor!? I can only use it for 1080p. Microsoft I'm disappointed... I was worried but now I lost hope.
4131691
This reboots at will 3 or 4 times a day, locks continually.  Very disappointed.  I am returning for an hdx.  I previously had an 8.9 HDX that died by no fault of its own.  I was very happy with it and hopefully the generation I just purchased will be as awesome as my previous HDX.  I loved the big screen and SD slot on this model, but it is really not a stable device at all.  After a month of frustration I finally gave up on it and bought the HDX.  Spend the extra money and get a little smaller screen - you will be much happier.
3664365
My biggest disappointment is the screen size.  My previous Kindle HDX 8 had a bigger screen. Everything is else is good.

I am disappointed still with the screen size still and it seems to lock up a bunch.  I am ordering the newest HD10 today.
717219
Scaling is a real problem and the interface is fairly poor. The main screen has HUGE launcher buttons for a few not very useful functions. In the apps menu the icons are very large and poorly rendered - blurry with noticeable pixels as though they had been scaled up.

Video rendering has a similar problem. While the device claims to render 1080p, it in fact is up-sampling 720p. You can see this yourself by changing the output on hdmi to 720p - the output will look exactly the same. Actually changing the output resolution is worthwhile because it will eliminate the video tearing (black or red horizontal lines) that occur in 1080p.

I'll be experimenting with third party roms and doing a bunch more reading on xda to see what other capabilities this device has.
852283
Like others before me I was led to believe this would work with Fire HDX. I wish I had read the reviews closer before purchase. Because clearly now it does not.
1092414
I couldn't transfer photos from my camera to this device wirelessly.  I guess I "assumed" it would work like my Samsung S4 Android cell phone, but clearly the HDX did not run on an Android Operating System.  It's basically a glorified Kindle book reader with which you can also surf the Net, but when I compared this HDX unit to my Kindle Paperwhite, I frankly preferred reading books on my PaperWhite.  The HDX is FAST though... and you CAN surf the Net on it, use facebook, etc.  I just wasn't able to transfer photos to it from my Sony RX10 camera.  So I returned it, bit the bullet, and ordered a Samsung S 10.5 tablet.  Now THAT is a product I can honestly RAVE over.  It has THE BEST display I've ever seen... period!  Better than an Apple retina display!  Pictures look like they're in 3D.  Just astonishing image quality.  Save your money and get the Samsung.  You will NOT be disappointed!!!!
3955754
This was actually an impulse purchase at a Big Box store, on the eve of a Saturday trip to the Penn Relays. I'll consider buying an additional battery for it, but am leaning toward returning it.  Bottom line, the battery life was much poorer than I had anticipated, and I don't think there's much I can do short of dragging around spare batteries.

I already have, and am thrilled with, a Sony DSC-H70 and a spare battery which I purchased on this site.  Unfortunately, it's not pocket friendly. The new DSC-WX50 looked like a more portable equivalent (16mp and 10x zoom), with the added benefit of Full HD 1080 video.

I didn't anticipate that the WX50's battery life would be this poor.  I calculated that the battery life equated to 13 Full HD videos averaging about 4 minutes each, plus 20 still pictures and 2 panorama shots.  That's 22 pics and less than 1 hour of HD video, total.  Sorry, that's just not good enough, unless you're dragging a bag of batteries around.  My DSC-H70 more than doubled that output on a single charge, and recently survived an all-day track meet on a single battery.

Full HD 1080/60i movies with the DSC-WX50 were consistently stunning, and superior to the 720p movies I took on the same date, under the same conditions, with my DSC-H70.  If I do keep the DSC-WX50, it'll be for the movie quality. The WH50 gave incredible detail of each runner at the opposite end of the stadium, with almost no visible camera shake.  The action from that distance wasn't as clear with the H70.

Pictures were better on the DSC-H70.  The DSC-WX50's pictures were good at first glance.  But when loaded and viewed on a large monitor, they were disappointingly fuzzy on faraway details, both in smart/intelligent/auto mode and in landscape mode. My guess is that the H70's G-series lens is superior, because the detail is better with the H70.
1724142
Definitely has a sound issue especially when using music and video love the May day option. I don't know anyone who has the HDX to compare my issue to I am not completely satisfied with this update.
4907249
I'll make it short and sweet: The Nvidia Shield is not ready for the prime time.

Hear me out. I bought the shield expecting a Roku-like experience. I had read some of the reviews and the hardware specs seemed promising, so I bought it thinking I could finally eliminate my Roku, Chromecast, and media center PC in one fell swoop. Well, I was disappointed. The specs were impressive on paper, but at the end of the day all of it was wasted as there isn't a purposeful software to exploit the horsepower the Shield brings to the table. The Shield is ready, but Android is not.

The hardware: beautiful 4/4
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Let's get something out of the way: Nvidia is a hardware company. This is what they do best. I would be extremely disappointed if I rated this segment anything less than a four, especially with a starting price of $199. The beautifully designed exterior houses a very power Tegra chip that makes the Android experience the fastest I've seen on *any* platform, be it phone, tablet, or otherwise. Hardware is Nvidia domain and they certainly showcase it here. The controller feels a little bulky for my taste. It has a few capacitive buttons at locations they have no business being in, and as a result you lose a certain level of tactile feedback that is especially essential when gaming. The optional controller on the other hand feels and looks sturdy and has a pretty nifty capactive volume bar in the center. The built-in microphone also does a good job of picking up voice commands from a 2-3 feet away.

The UI: snappy but rough: 3/4
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The UI is yet another place where Android TV shows its immaturity. Not a lot of thought has gone into the UI. Apps are laid across horizontally in annoying long rows that make it hard to locate and select what you're looking for. Setting menus look bland and confusing, with various settings strewn all over the place as if the developers couldn't figure out how to categorize them properly.

As far as responsiveness goes, the Tegra processor picks up a lot of the slack in making everything truly fast, despite the fact that all this processing power is wasted on accelerating a poorly thought-out interface

The Apps: nonexistent 1/4
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What apps? Android TV is very much in its infancy, and the Google Play store reflects that. Apart from a random assortment of games, the repository is virtually void of much of the familiar apps you've come to use and love on traditional Android platforms. Forget Facebook,  forget your favorite cable TV streaming app, and forget much of the apps you'll find on the phone/tablet variant of the Google Play store. Apart from a small percentage of well-written apps, much of the store is filled with foreign and downright useless apps.

Gaming/Streaming: 2/4
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This was something that shocked me. I figured, if all else fails, I would at least be able to enjoy 1080p gaming via Nvidia Gamestream. My main PC is a mammoth with an i7 4770k, 32GB RAM, and a 980Ti running through its veins, but there was a definite and noticeable latency between the time I input a command on the controller and I saw it on the screen. It's very subtle, mind you, but if you're doing anything other than casual gaming (solitaire), you WILL notice it and it WILL eat at you like an eyebrow in your eye. Mind you, the connection was running on a low-latency gigabit connection.

Another issue I ran into was that the during a Gamestream session, pressing some combination of buttons on the controller would bring up the Android menu, completely covering the game.

Just be smart and get a $49 Roku stick for now.
3057780
Although they are both 7" the HDX has its buttons etc in different places therefore you have to purchase a new case.  I am not sure if it is the case's fault but I have to constantly realign the Kindle with the case's openings.  But the main reason I am disappointed with the HDX is there are several apps which are NOT compatible with the HDX that I had on my original HD.  I wish I had not upgraded to the HDX.  Also I have not been been able to get the May day app to work either.
4272651
I was disappointed that the camera was not set up so that I could take pictures (other than selfies). I think a 4G HDX should have that capability.
4511732
I purchased the product a couple of weeks ago and I'm far from happy with it.

I previously owned a 4 years old DELL XPS13, a "poor" dual-core, 7500 rpm HD and 8GB RAM.

I expected the new ultrabook to run circles around the old one but... actually the opposite happened:

* The SSD drive gets much better marks with the hdtune tests I ran (average 270Mb/s compared to 80Mb/s), so I expected much better performance

* BUT: running a dir /s on a big directory tree (same tree on both machines, of course) is 3 times slower on the new machine (3 times!) despite of the supposedly better SSD marks

* CPU is actually slower than the one on the old XPS: yes, 4 threads, but it takes like 3 times as the old one doing some unzip operations... Awful.

Then, trying to downgrade to Windows 7 turned out to be really hard: I was still unable to start it up since the w7 installer hangs when trying to load the disk driver.

Conclusion: don't buy the Windows 8 based one. It is cheaper but you'll waste precious time. I don't know yet whether it is better with W7. So far: it is just a beautiful case with really bad and underperforming hardware inside. I had several laptops before and I never found a new laptop to be slower than the previous one. Really disappointing.
1228538
Disappointing. Preferred my Fire HDX 7 to this new edition.  Picture quality and audio is superb but access to apps is slow and often unstable. Probably OK for the price.