Amazon released a fifty dollar Fire tablet about a year ago, and it might actually seem pretty good for it's price. But as a Fire user, I found that it's pretty much what you can expect for 50 bucks. Quite a few of the pros are that it comes with a 1024 x 600 IPS display, four 1.3 GHz cores, 7 hours of battery life, a version of Night Shift, expandable storage, and Amazon Underground, an app store in which games like Angry Birds are free. It also comes in four colors. However, the Fire runs a heavily modified version of Android Lollipop that they call Fire OS Bellini. This version of Android does not feature the Google Play store, and replaces it with the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Music, and Prime Video. Unfortunately, the Amazon Appstore does not feature a number of apps and it's clients for Google apps aren't easy to use. There is, however, a built-in Goodreads app which is nice. The rear-facing camera is only two megapixels, while my iPhone 4s from late 2011 has eight megapixels on it. The device only has eight gigabytes, while the iPhone 4s again has 16 gigs as it's base model. It's pretty heavy too. While it must be noted that the tablet is 50 dollars, I expected a lot more. While it is consistently easy to get things off Amazon, I'm not a heavy Amazon user and I don't appreciate it. For $50, you're getting what you expect, but there are better tablets out there. For Mirror Journal, this was Roan Thibault.
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