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17 Best New Android Apps And Live Wallpapers From The Last 2 Weeks

adnane 1 Applications, News February 12, 2014

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Welcome to the roundup of the best new 
Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the 
Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.
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Featured App</h2>
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Bills Reminder Lite</h3>
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Today's roundup is presented by Bills Reminder from HandyApps. The 
intent and function of the app is simple: it reminds you to pay your 
bills on time, which is great if you like to use things like electricity
 and insurance. The interface is fantastic, with a fully customizable 
database, color-coded bills, and the ability to amend photos for bills 
or invoices. The lite app is the first widget below, and the full app 
below that is $3.99.</div>
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Keep getting those nasty late payment fees? Download this mobile bill
 organizer into your Android smartphone now and get daily reminders to 
pay your bills on time every time! No more easy money for the banks!<br />Simply
 key in your payment amount and due date and this bill tracker app will 
notify you in advance when your bill payment is coming due. With this 
handy mobile payment tracker with you at all times, now you don't have 
to worry about forgetting to pay your bills while you go about your busy
 schedule!</div>
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How Bills Reminder works:</div>
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<li>Enter your bill payment amount and the due date via an intuitive user interface.
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<li>By default, Bills Reminder will start to remind you of the 
payment 5 days before the due date. The number of days in advance can be
 customized for each bill but the default is set to 5 days. (You can 
change the default setting as well)
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<li>Bill Reminders will fire off reminder notifications every day 
at a preset time (default is 8:00am) until you have paid your bill. Your
 device LED will also flash a distinct orange color to indicate that a 
bill payment is coming due.
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<li>Unlike other bill tracking apps, Bills Reminders will always 
fire off when the bill payment is coming due, no matter whether you have
 opened the app or not or whether you have rebooted your device.
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<li>You can also setup recurring bill reminders. The repeating 
period is extremely flexible, you can set bill reminders to repeat every
 X days,weeks,months or year. (Eg. every 2 weeks, every 6 days, every 1 
month etc.)
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<li>You can also capture or attach photos of bills, invoices, 
receipts alongside each bill reminder you created. This is helpful when 
it comes to actually making the payment. All the information is already 
stored in the app, so there is no need to go and find that paper bill 
statement.
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<li>Paid Bills/Invoices/receipts can be kept for future reference </li>
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With all those late fees saved, this bill tracking app will pay for itself in no time!</div>
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Apps</h2>
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App Ops 4.3 / 4.4 KitKat</h3>
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App Ops is back, and even if it's not better than ever, it's better 
by default for supporting Android 4.4. This app allows root users to 
deny permissions on an app-by-app basis, forcing those overreaching 
developers to play by your rules. The free app does that commendable 
service without asking for a penny, but the IAP upgrade adds batch 
actions, device-wide rules, and notifications.</div>
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This is the newest way to launch the native App Ops on your Android 
4.4 KitKat phone and tablet, or (for rooted users) of installing the 
extended version of App Ops. App Ops X Installer will install an 
eXtended version of AppOps on your Android 4.3 or 4.4 (KitKat) phone. 
It's the same App Ops you know, only recompiled and with new features 
slowly being added. This installer is required because the actual app 
(App Ops X) needs to be copied into your phone's /system/app folder and 
this kind of install is not natively supported by Google Play.</div>
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FlightTrack 5</h3>
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FlightTrack has always been a pretty reliable app for the constant 
traveler, and the developers keep updating and improving the new 
versions. Number five adds even more eye candy, real time notification 
alerts, visual flight paths, and a whole host of goodies for Android 
power users. Flight sharing via NFC, a widget and DashClock extension, 
and a super-sweet live wallpaper round it out. The new version is a 
reasonable $3.</div>
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Welcome to a brand new version of FlightTrack. Rebuilt from the 
ground up, FlightTrack’s new design and user experience are tailored to 
the needs of the savvy traveler. Now, all FlightTrack users get push 
notifications with flight updates and can view terminal maps to help 
navigate to the gate. With FlightTrack, you can search flights by number
 or route in a single search field, create trips with multiple flights 
and travelers, and view the progression of an entire trip within a 
single workflow.</div>
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FIFA</h3>
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Hey look, it's the official FIFA app! Not to be confused with the EA 
game, this is FIFA's official scheduling and stats app, covering all the
 major soccer (football) leagues across the world. Apparently there are 
197 of them, which kind of blows my mind, because I can't even remember 
all the starting QBs in the NFL. The app itself is quite pretty, and it 
does the standard sports app stuff with personalized lists, news, and 
updates.</div>
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Download the most comprehensive football app on the planet and unlock
 the world of football. Hundreds of competitions, thousands of goals and
 over a million minutes of football every single week! From the 
Bundesliga to the Barclays Premier League, MLS to La Liga, the World 
Match Centre provides unrivalled coverage of 197 leagues across the 
globe. Personalize your World Match Centre with national teams, 
competitions, and clubs ensuring you never miss kick-off, the final 
whistle or any action in-between ever again.</div>
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HTC FootballFeed</h3>
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Got a burning desire to stay up to the minute in regard to football 
(soccer, for those of us in 'Murica) news? Then you'll want to check out
 this app. It's HTC proprietary football news and stats program, 
complete with updates from all the major worldwide leagues presented in a
 play-by-play style. Push notifications and a full schedule will keep 
you in the know, and the best part is, you don't even need an HTC phone:
 the app is offered free for all devices running Android 4.1 or higher.</div>
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Change your game with HTC FootballFeed™, the app that delivers 
official, play-by-play updates from the UEFA Champions League and UEFA 
Europa League, direct to your phone. Wherever you are – in the stands, 
on the sofa, at the office or out on the town – HTC FootballFeed™ 
provides you with live, customizable facts and stats, as well as a wide 
variety of great news and content.</div>
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<li>Designed for an efficient, unique user experience,
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<li>Official updates direct from UEFA and HTC,
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<li>Squad line-ups for each match,
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<li>Push notifications, so you never miss a thing,
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<li>Countdown clock for upcoming matches,
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<li>Standing tables for both Leagues,
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<li>Club pages with relevant facts and stats, </li>
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Xposed Additions</h3>
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Does your phone have buttons? Do you dislike the things that those buttons do? Do you wish that those buttons could do <em>other things instead? </em>Then
 you want the Xposed additions module (and also the Xposed Framework and
 root permissions, because you'll need them too). Additions lets you 
re-assign button actions and add long press actions, and even set up 
different behaviors for buttons depending on whether your screen is on 
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Xposed Additions is an XposedBridge Module that adds new features to 
your device. One of these features is the largest Key Re-map system for 
Android. Since this module uses XposedBridge, it is able to Re-map any 
key on your device and in any way you'd like. Do you want to disable 
your Power button while the display is off, or add Media controls like 
Play/Pause, Next, Previous etc. or have your Recent Apps Button act as a
 Menu Button, or turn on the screen with a different key other than 
Power and so on, then try this module out.</div>
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Xposed Additions</div>
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<span class="pb-wd-rating-4">313 ratings</span></div>
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Recorder with Tags Lite</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
This app is easily the purdiest audio recorder I've ever seen... not 
that it's a huge milestone or anything. Recorder with Tags is set up for
 regular and searchable recordings, making it ideal for college students
 or the poor schmuck who has to take meeting minutes. A classy interface
 separated with categories and stars is a major highlight, and you can 
place bookmarks inside the recordings themselves. More bookmarks, more 
categories, and higher bitrates are available <a class="external" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ls.iris.apps.recorder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in the paid version.</a></div>
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Recorder with Tags is a stylish, simple and easy to use audio and 
voice recorder. Tags will help you to mark any important moments across 
your recordings. App can be used for recording your meetings, personal 
notes, classes, courses and others.</div>
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MAIN FEATURES (AVAILABLE IN LITE VERSION)</div>
<ul style="text-align: center;">
<li>Record to high-quality PCM.
</li>
<li>Put up to 3 marks whenever you like during each recording
</li>
<li>Share and manage your recordings easily, and back them up to your PC.
</li>
<li>Record in the background.
</li>
<li>Organize recordings using categories (2 categories in lite version). </li>
</ul>
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PRO FEATURES (AVAILABLE IN PAID VERSION)</div>
<ul style="text-align: center;">
<li>Put unlimited number of marks whenever you like during each recording.
</li>
<li>Select sound quality (sample rate).
</li>
<li>Organize recordings using categories (up to 10 categories). </li>
</ul>
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myMail</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Another week, another alternative email app. This one features a 
modern interface, some impressive notification settings, and a lot of 
pre-configured mail services, but there isn't a whole lot in myMail to 
sway you away from Gmail if that's how you roll. According to the 
description it's specifically designed to stay fast under a heavy load 
of messages and contacts thanks to a unique compression system.</div>
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myMail brings all your email accounts into one simple, bright, and 
friendly interface. Use myMail to manage messages in your Gmail, Yahoo.,
 AOL, iCloud, Hotmail and Outlook mailboxes. We created myMail to be 
fast, secure, and always there when you need it. Our app was developed 
for mobile devices from the ground up. With simple taps and swiping 
motions, you can read, reply to, forward, and do whatever else you need 
to with your emails. The app is available on and optimized for both the 
tablet and smartphone.</div>
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<img height="286" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/market/2013-11/com.my.mail/1f2d4f759212ecce33611c6bec36e7b0_215.jpg" width="161" /> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox"><img height="286" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/market/2013-11/com.my.mail/d6ff02797443b6feaaaeb2a802f6bec9_215.jpg" width="161" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox"><img height="286" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/market/2013-11/com.my.mail/c5cae76d2dd7df63312bc243726dd8cc_215.jpg" width="161" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox"><img height="286" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/market/2013-11/com.my.mail/ca6dc50cd88b2bf0a890940a34b97df5_215.jpg" width="161" /></a></div>
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myMail—free email application</div>
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<span class="pb-wd-rating-45">5,120 ratings</span></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Branches for Twitter</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Branches is an unconventional Twitter app, shunning the usual 
firehose feed in favor of "grouped tweets." That means that similar 
tweets from the same user get grouped together in a single branch... 
which kind of defeats the purpose of a service that limits messages to 
short bursts. Huh. At least the interface is Holo.</div>
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Branches offers a unique Twitter reading experience. Tweets by the 
same author over a period of time are grouped in a single branch. Follow
 anyone on Twitter without fear of resulting in a noisy timeline.</div>
<ul style="text-align: center;">
<li>Groups tweets
</li>
<li>Twitter client with a simple interface
</li>
<li>Open tweets in the official Twitter app with a tap
</li>
<li>Tweet, Retweet, Share, Favorite, Reply </li>
</ul>
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<span class="pb-wd-rating-4">128 ratings</span></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Kabbage</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
If you can't give me a brief outline of the benefits and drawbacks of
 an LLC, you probably don't care about Kabbage. If you can, you might 
care quite a lot, because it's a small-scale investment company that 
helps independent businesses get started or expand. It looks like you 
can't actually get approved for an investment or loan via the Kabbage 
app, but if you've already got one, you can manage your balance, advance
 requests, and transfers via the app. Hurrah for capitalism!</div>
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Kabbage provides working capital to businesses to help them grow. 
Whereas traditional financial institutions take weeks to decide on an 
advance, Kabbage can deliver up to $50,000 of funding in just 7 minutes.
 Kabbage for Android acts as your mobile portal into the most important 
features of the Kabbage website. Qualified customers can...</div>
<ul style="text-align: center;">
<li>Have ongoing access to cash
</li>
<li>View their balance
</li>
<li>Make transfers to Kabbage </li>
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...all from their Android devices.</div>
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Kabbage</div>
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Flipagram</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Instagram + Microsoft Photo Story = Flipagram. That's it. That's all 
the description you're getting for this one. No, you're not getting your
 money back.</div>
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Bring Moments to Life with Flipagram. Create beautiful short video 
stories using your Instagram and Gallery photos, set to music you love. 
Get the ORIGINAL, now on Android and FREE for a limited time.</div>
<ul style="text-align: center;">
<li>INSTANT PREVIEW. View your Flipagram as you make changes.
</li>
<li>"Auto Time For Instagram"
</li>
<li>Or set your own timing to any length
</li>
<li>Ability to duplicate, delete, or crop photos.
</li>
<li>Optional title display with numerous font selections.
</li>
<li>Option to add a soundtrack from your music library.
</li>
<li>Adjust audio starting point.
</li>
<li>Video duration display. </li>
</ul>
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Flipagram</div>
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<span class="pb-wd-rating-45">204,505 ratings</span></div>
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Xbox One SmartGlass</h3>
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The Xbox One SmartGlass app came out before the Xbox One, because 
Microsoft is a coy minx. The app is pretty much the same as it ever was 
for the Xbox 360: you've got access to the Xbox's basic control and 
media capabilities, you can use the slightly better keyboard on your 
Android device to input text or searches, and you can engage in a little
 social networking and achievement hunting. Though Microsoft tends to 
push its Metro interface on Android apps, this should be familiar to any
 Xbox users likely to install it.</div>
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Xbox One SmartGlass is the perfect companion app for your Xbox One, 
both in your living room and on the go. Stay connected with the games 
and gamers you like. Add a new dimension to your console entertainment 
with the mobile device you already own.</div>
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In the living room:</div>
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<li>Navigate your Xbox One console using your device’s keyboard and touch
</li>
<li>Control your media and set top box with the SmartGlass remote control
</li>
<li>Browse the web on your TV using your mobile device
</li>
<li>Enhance what you are watching or playing with SmartGlass companions
</li>
<li>Increase performance with faster connections and reliability </li>
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In the living room and on the go:</div>
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<li>Search, browse, and pin content to play on your Xbox One console
</li>
<li>Track achievements, get game help, message friends, and watch game DVR clips </li>
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Cox Contour</h3>
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Cox is coming to the future with a cable streaming and scheduling 
app... and it's got all the usual restrictions, then some. You'll need 
to use your home WiFi to stream the app (which kind of defeats the point
 of a mobile streaming app), plus it's only supported on a couple of 
Nexus and Galaxy Tab devices. At least the interface looks good, <em>very </em>good
 in fact, with a lot of elements borrowed from the newer versions of 
Windows Media Center. It would be nice if you could use that shiny 
interface when you leave the house, wouldn't it?</div>
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With the Contour App from Cox, you can watch live TV and On Demand 
shows on your Android tablet anywhere in your house. It also offers 
access to mobile apps from popular TV networks to watch anywhere:</div>
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• Choose from over 100 popular TV channels plus thousands of On Demand choices to watch anywhere in your house <br />• Access TV network apps and watch anywhere <br />• Includes personal show recommendations for up to 7 users <br />• Remotely schedule recordings on your DVR <br />• Share what you watch with your Facebook friends <br />• Easily view and sort TV listings for all channels <br />•
 Yours to enjoy for free as a bundle subscriber to Cox TV Essential, 
Advanced TV, or Contour TV service and Cox Preferred, Premier or 
Ultimate Internet service.</div>
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Shine </h3>
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Misfit Shine is another activity tracker, this time shaped like a 
hockey puck from the future. The Android app lets you track steps, sleep
 patterns, and other activities, and set your fitness goals right on 
your device... so long as it's got BLE support, which generally means 
Android 4.3 or later.</div>
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This app requires a Misfit Shine and an Android device with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). Get your Shine at <a class="external" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.misfitwearables.com/shine</a>
 Shine is the elegant activity tracker that inspires you to live an 
active life. Wear Shine anywhere on your body with our range of upgrades
 that are designed for comfort and style. Shine’s long-lasting battery 
and automatic wireless syncing mean you’ll spend less time plugging in 
and more time moving. Use the Shine app to access these features:</div>
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by <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Misfit+Wearables+Corporation" target="blank">Misfit Wearables Corporation</a><br />5,000 - 10,000 downloads</div>
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SMARTACTIONS™</h3>
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Motorola's been moving basically all of its proprietary first-party 
apps to the Play Store to enable quicker updates without a phone 
firmware update (exactly like parent company Google). This week it's the
 SmartActions... wait, what's that, Motorola brand manager? I have to 
call it SMARTACTIONS™? Fine, have it your way.</div>
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Whether you want to extend your battery life or get help staying 
focused on the road when you’re behind the wheel, SMARTACTIONS can help.
 With this unique app, you can mastermind your phone settings, so your 
smartphone is optimized for your life. The app is also intuitive. 
SMARTACTIONS will offer up suggestions for different settings changes 
based on how you use your phone.</div>
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Motorola Connect</h3>
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<strong>Android Police coverage</strong>: Motorola Assist And Motorola Connect For The Moto X And 2013 DROIDs Are Now In The Play Store</div>
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...and here's Motorola Connect, Moto's legitimately cool desktop 
companion app for your calls, texts, and contacts. It will alert your 
desktop computer to a new call or text via Chrome, and you can text back
 without touching your phone, a la Google Voice. You'll need a latter 
model DROID or Moto X to join the party, and the Chrome extension is 
linked below.</div>
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Motorola Connect allows you to see text messages and calls coming 
into your Connect enabled phone on your computer’s Chrome browser. You 
can read and respond to texts using your keyboard and even know who’s 
calling before deciding if you should reach for your phone. Motorola 
Connect requires a Chrome Extension to be installed on your Chrome 
Browser. You can find the extension here: <a class="external" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/motorola-connect/</a>.</div>
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GRID Beta</h3>
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Unless you've got an NVIDIA SHIELD or a Tegra Note, a location in 
Northern California, and a burning desire to play PC games on the go, 
this probably won't affect you much. If you do have all of those things,
 prepare to be amazed, because NVIDIA's GRID streaming service
 is now available to SHIELD owners! This is basically a beta version of 
an Onlive-type streaming service, which the rest of us won't get to try 
out for some time. Yes, you HAVE to be physically close to Northern 
California to sign in to the service.</div>
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Try the NVIDIA GRID cloud gaming beta, available exclusively to 
SHIELD owners in Northern California. Instantly stream high-quality PC 
games to your SHIELD when you’re away from home! The GRID beta app is 
available with SHIELD Software Update 65, or for download from the 
Google Play Store. The app will run a network test when you launch it 
and may issue warning messages or prevent play if it finds any problems 
with your network connection to the GRID servers.</div>
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Live Wallpapers</h2>
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Dragon Strike FREE Wallpaper</h3>
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Forget what you know about Live Wallpapers, watch as a Cinematic 
Dragon Battle unfolds right before your eyes. Witness Dragons of all 
types using their powers to attack a castle and its surroundings. In the
 Full version, Trebuchet's fire at nearby dragons, but the Dragons are 
relentless and growing in numbers, can they be stopped? Where and when 
the Dragons will perform various actions is unknown, even by us. Certain
 events may only happen at night, and other actions may only happen once
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Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 Review: Truly Excellent Hardware, Thoroughly Limited Software

adnane 3 News, Tablets February 12, 2014

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Imagine your perfect full-sized tablet. 
It's light, thin, has a gorgeous high-resolution display, multiple-day 
battery life, powerful speakers, and a cutting-edge processor. The 
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 is all these things and more. From a hardware and 
engineering standpoint, it is truly a marvel. And, for a certain class 
of buyer, it may very well be that "perfect" full-sized tablet.</div>
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When I reviewed the Fire HD (7") last year, I came to a similar 
conclusion - I was wowed by the hardware (perhaps excepting the 
processor, which was a laggardly dual-core TI OMAP), but the software 
made it difficult to recommend for enthusiasts like you and me. 
Unfortunately, the story is largely the same this year, except <a class="external" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Amazon">Amazon</a>'s Fire OS feels all the more limited, I think, <em>because</em> the Fire HDX 8.9 really is such a great device.</div>
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Multitasking is archaic even by iOS standards. Amazon's home-brewed 
browser, Silk, is still painfully bad. User customization options remain
 stripped down to the bare essentials - you can't even change the 
wallpaper in Fire OS. Much of this is by design. Amazon wants a tablet 
that's easy for almost anyone to pick up and use, regardless of age or 
technical experience. It does not want users to get lost in a seemingly 
endless array of menus and settings, rather, Fire OS is all about 
putting content front and center, and guiding you into Amazon's various 
content-distributing properties.</div>
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That's not to say Fire OS is a complete failure in the functional 
sense, though. Quite the contrary - Fire OS is easy to navigate, runs 
very smoothly on that Snapdragon 800 processor, and I personally find 
the layout to be a welcome departure from Android, iOS, or Windows. It's
 not the most beautiful interface ever designed, but it <em>feels</em> 
bespoke to the Fire in a way that even the heavier UI layers from the 
likes of Samsung and LG can't approach. Once you get used to the way 
things are done in Amazon's world, some of it even starts to make a lot 
of sense.</div>
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<h5>
Kindle Fire HDX 8.9</h5>
<ul>
<li><strong>Display:</strong> 8.9" 2560x1600 IPS LCD (339 DPI)
</li>
<li><strong>Processor:</strong> 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800
</li>
<li><strong>GPU:</strong> Adreno 330
</li>
<li><strong>RAM:</strong> 2GB
</li>
<li><strong>Storage:</strong> 16 / 32 / 64GB
</li>
<li><strong>Camera:</strong> 8MP rear / 720p front
</li>
<li><strong>Ports:</strong> microUSB
</li>
<li><strong>Wireless:</strong> Wi-Fi A/B/G/N, LTE (AT&T / Verizon, separate versions)
</li>
<li><strong>OS:</strong> Fire OS 3.1 "Mojito"
</li>
<li><strong>Weight:</strong> 374g
</li>
<li><strong>Thickness:</strong> 7.8mm
</li>
<li><strong>Battery:</strong> size unknown
</li>
<li><strong>Price: </strong>$380-580 (<a class="external" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">buy</a>) </li>
</ul>
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<h5>
The Good</h5>
<ul>
<li>Incredibly thin and light. The Fire HDX 8.9 is truly a joy to 
hold - it weighs only a couple of ounces more than a Nexus 7. The 
soft-touch plastic is also great.
</li>
<li>It's quite quick when it comes to most tasks, as one would hope
 considering it's powered by a Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor.
</li>
<li>Fire OS is incredibly easy to navigate. Anyone could figure this out, and it'd be pretty hard to screw anything up.
</li>
<li>Mayday is a genuinely cool feature, and I doubt anyone will be executing it as well as Amazon has any time soon.
</li>
<li>Good speakers plus a great display means the HDX 8.9 is very much suited for watching videos and playing games.
</li>
<li>Excellent battery life, and Amazon promises a 50% increase in longevity during times when you're reading in the Kindle app. </li>
</ul>
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 The Not So Good
<ul>
<li>Fire OS is maddeningly limited - no customization (wallpaper, 
keyboard, launcher, browser - you're stuck with all of 'em), few if any 
innovative software features, and a take-it-or-leave-it interface 
layout.
</li>
<li>The web browser, Silk, has managed to get precisely 0% better 
since the last Fires. It sucks. Really, really bad. And you can't 
replace it, because Amazon has banned 3rd-party browsers from the 
Appstore. Hooray!
</li>
<li>Parts of Fire OS, like the Appstore, still feel slow at times.
</li>
<li>The Appstore's selection has gotten better, but some key apps 
(Dropbox, anything by Google) and many newer games are noticeably 
absent. </li>
</ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Hardware</h2>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Design and build quality</h3>
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I really love holding the Fire HDX 8.9. It's so incredibly light (and
 thin), at just 13.5 oz, that it almost has me thinking my iPad Air is a
 tad ungainly. If you were to ask me how a full-sized tablet should <em>feel</em>
 when it's in my hand, the HDX 8.9 would be the only adequate answer I 
could provide. While it doesn't feel as solid as the Air (there is 
noticeable movement and sound when you twist is at the ends), the HDX 
8.9 still feels very luxurious and premium. The soft-touch plastic has 
an inviting, smooth texture not unlike the Nexus 5.</div>
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<img alt="wm_DSC00235" height="266" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_wm_DSC00235_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="wm_DSC00235" width="400" /></div>
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I do feel, though, that Amazon made some odd choices with the HDX 
8.9's design. For example, the power button and volume rocker are both 
on the rear of the tablet. They are positioned such that when you hold 
the HDX 8.9 in landscape mode, either is readily accessible to your 
index finger. I understand the logic, but I think that most people have 
become so ingrained either with side-mounted buttons or a physical home 
button that these are an "innovation" no one was really asking for. It's
 not the end of the world, but I'm still befuddled by them every time I 
pick up the HDX, especially if I do so in portrait mode, meaning I have 
to feel out which end the power button is on. The only cue as to the 
portrait orientation of the HDX from the front is the camera, which is 
on the right if you're holding it such that the power button is at the 
top of the back.</div>
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<img alt="wm_DSC00232" height="266" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_wm_DSC00232_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="wm_DSC00232" width="400" /></div>
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There's also the glossy Amazon logo inset on the back of the HDX and 
the glossy strip of plastic along the edge with the speakers and rear 
camera. This seemingly random texturizing detracts from the soft-touch 
plastic feel, and I don't think it does much for the HDX's exterior 
aesthetics much, either. Speaking of, the HDX isn't anything to drool 
over in the looks department. The angled tapering along the backside 
simply doesn't look attractive to me, and the glossy plastic's 
propensity for attracting fingerprints doesn't help the situation.</div>
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But really, the lightness and the soft-touch plastic make up for 
these shortcomings easily. The HDX 8.9 is so easy to handle that 
quibbling about things like button placement and glossy plastic is a bit
 unfair to the genuine achievement Amazon's made here from an 
engineering standpoint. It's just so damn light. That means you'll be 
able to hold it longer, have a lower chance of dropping it, and if you 
do drop it, that it's less likely to break. Could the bezels around the 
sides be a bit narrower? Sure. But overall, the form factor is a total 
win.</div>
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What's not a total win, however, is the hard shell stand "Origami" 
case Amazon sells as a $55 add-on. Instead of using a snap-in, snap-out 
mechanism for fitting the tablet in the case, strong magnets pull it 
into position, making it much easier to remove the HDX from its shell 
than probably any other such case on the market. The problem is that 
magnets are really, really heavy. The HDX goes from featherweight to 
blunt-force weapon in no time inside the Origami case, and all of that 
lightness, thinness, and loveliness goes with it. The back of the 
Origami case folds into a stand using, you guessed it, more magnets, but
 the whole thing feels more like an over-engineered party trick than it 
does a genuinely useful accessory. That said, I'd feel very confident of
 the safety of the HDX inside this case, as it's very thick and 
tough-feeling.</div>
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Display and battery life</h3>
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<em>Note: sorry about the dust - I was shooting outside and I just couldn't keep it off the display long enough for photos!</em></div>
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You're not going to find a better one. The HDX's display looks 
absolutely brilliant. Bright, crisp, and vivid. Viewing angles are 
superb, colors balanced, and sharpness is top-notch at well over 300DPI.</div>
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Some have complained about blue tinting around the edges of the HDX's display, though Amazon has retorted that this is fully intentional,
 caused by the blue LEDs the HDX uses as a backlight as opposed to the 
more traditional white. The blue LEDs increase power efficiency and 
achieve more accurate colors according to Amazon, and I believe it. The 
HDX has truly superb battery life, I've had it idle for days on end and 
the amount of drain has been minimal. When actually using it, the 
battery drains fairly slowly as long as you're using automatic 
brightness. </div>
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Amazon estimates 12 hours of normal, display-on usage is possible 
with the HDX, and that figure goes to 18 hours if all you're doing is 
reading in the Kindle app. When you launch the Kindle app, a number of 
non-essential system services are turned off and the processor throttled
 to eek out that extra 50% of longevity. If you're buying an HDX 
primarily as an eReader which doubles as a tablet when needed, this is a
 pretty awesome feature.</div>
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As tablets go, the HDX 8.9 is, if not <em>the</em> best, up there 
with the very best of its competitors in both the display and battery 
life departments. How the battery fares on the LTE-enabled variants, I'm
 not sure, though I assume there will be a noticeable reduction over the
 Wi-Fi only models.</div>
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<img alt="wm_DSC00224" height="266" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_wm_DSC00224_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="wm_DSC00224" width="400" /></div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Speakers</h3>
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The Fire HDX 8.9 has two speakers, both of which point out the back 
of the device. If my recollection serves me well, they sound almost <em>exactly</em>
 as they did on the HD 7" last year. No louder, no better, no worse. For
 a tablet, the quality is very good, with some real (albeit shallow) 
depth to the sound, though volume is a bit lacking next to my iPad.</div>
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<img alt="wm_DSC00238" height="266" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_wm_DSC00238_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="wm_DSC00238" width="400" /></div>
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For watching movies or TV in bed or on the couch on a quiet evening 
in, the HDX can get the job done. Despite there being no rear openings 
for the speakers on Amazon's Origami case for the HDX, the sound 
actually becomes louder and more focused when using it, because it is 
forced upward rather than out the back of the tablet. So that's at least
 one good use for that tank of a case.</div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Camera</h3>
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The HDX 8.9 has a rear camera (unlike the smaller 7), but it's not 
anything worth getting excited over. The quality of the photos bolsters 
that conclusion - while reasonably capable outdoors and in good 
lighting, the HDX 8.9's rear shooter is far from a primary reason to 
consider it over other tablets.</div>
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<img alt="IMG_20131202_145234" height="400" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_IMG_20131202_145234_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="IMG_20131202_145234" width="299" /> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="IMG_20131202_145129"><img alt="IMG_20131202_145129" height="400" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_IMG_20131202_145129_thumb.jpg" style="display: inline;" title="IMG_20131202_145129" width="299" /></a></div>
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Low-light shots produced ample noise, though detail was decent, and shutter lag was definitely appreciable.</div>
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<img align="left" alt="HDX_camera" height="185" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_HDX_camera_thumb.gif" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px;" title="HDX_camera" width="329" />This
 brings us back yet again to the Origami case, which at first glance 
rather suspiciously lacks an opening for the rear camera. Oversight? 
Laziness? Nope - the Origami case has a neat little party trick up its 
sleeve. Because the HDX simply slides and magnetizes into the case, it's
 also removed rather easily, but Amazon was more clever than just 
suggesting you take it out. Simple hold the HDX in landscape mode and 
press up on the tablet with both your thumbs with moderate force, and it
 will slide up roughly 1/5 of the case, exposing the camera and 
automatically launching the camera app. Alright, hats off to Amazon for 
that one - that's a genuinely neat idea.</div>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">
Storage</h3>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The Fire HDX lineup is one of the few aside from the iPad currently 
offering more than two storage options, with 16, 32, and 64GB variants 
of the HDX available in both sizes. On the 16GB model I'm reviewing, 
roughly 11.5GB of that is available out of the box, so you can substract
 about 5.5GB from the remaining two capacities to figure out what 
they're working with.</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Software</h2>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Fire OS doesn't look all that different on the surface compared to 
last year's iteration of Amazon's Android mutant, but there's been a 
considerable overhaul of some functionality and features throughout the 
system. </div>
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The first thing to keep in mind about Fire OS is that it is designed 
to do two things: A.) be simple, and B.) make you buy stuff on Amazon. 
Many people buying Kindle Fires are long-time standard Kindle owners who
 have never owned a real tablet, or less tech-savvy individuals who just
 happen to buy a lot of stuff on Amazon. I imagine a substantial number 
are also purchased for children. The enthusiast appeal of this tablet 
borders on negligible, and the way the OS is laid out goes to show 
Amazon is fully aware of this.</div>
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<img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-26" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-26_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-26" width="215" /> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-34"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-34" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-34_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-34" width="215" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-58"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-58" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-58_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-58" width="215" /></a></div>
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Your primary homescreen consists of a single pane, made up of a few 
elements. Up top, you have the persistent content navigation bar, which 
has headers leading to all of the various content you can consume or 
utilize on the HDX. Shopping, games, apps, books, music, videos, news, 
audiobooks, web browsing, photos, and documents all have dedicated 
shortcuts. The once-persistent universal search bar has also now been 
relegated to this area, freeing up some real estate. The universal 
search scours the web, your content libraries (Kindle, Instant Video, 
Amazon MP3, etc.), the Appstore, and Amazon's physical goods site for 
results. It's actually pretty clever.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Below this top bar you have the carousel, a list of your common and 
recent activities. Think of it like multitasking meets favorites. If you
 were watching a movie on Prime Instant Video, for example, it will show
 up in this carousel (complete with cover art) ready to pick up where 
you left off, have it been 3 minutes ago or 3 weeks. Your apps, in the 
order last launched, are also here. You can hold down on any of these 
items to add or remove a home shortcut for them, or remove them from the
 carousel (they will reappear if you launch them again, though).</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Moving on, you have your home apps area. This is something of a 
curated app drawer - not all your apps will appear here. In fact, you 
can add or remove as many as you like, including shortcuts to Amazon 
content. For your full list of apps, you need to go to the "apps" header
 up top, which gives you two tabs to choose from - cloud and on device. 
On device obviously means the apps physically installed on your tablet, 
while the cloud area lists all those you've purchased previously 
(remember, every download on the Appstore is a purchase, even if it's 
free. Yeah, weird, I know).</div>
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And that's really the depth of the OS. There aren't any wacky 
software features, no intense settings menus to dive into, and basically
 zero customization options. You can't even change the wallpaper in Fire
 OS. Yes, really. Amazon has it locked down tight. The settings menu 
houses only the bare necessities (it is accessed through the 
notification bar).</div>
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There are a few standout items, though, worth looking into.</div>
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First, Amazon's browser, Silk. <strong>It sucks.</strong> I have 
never used such a horrid mobile browser. It's incredibly slow, clunky, 
and generally unpleasant to use. It's based on the Chromium project, but
 all Amazon seems to have succeeded in doing here is making an even 
slower mobile browser than Google has in Chrome for Android. Oh, and fun
 fact: Amazon doesn't allow 3rd party browsers (or launchers, or 
keyboards) on the Appstore, which is basically a giant middle finger to 
its customers who are bound to <em>hate</em> Silk unless their only 
previous browsing experience has been with IE6 on an anemic single-core 
Intel Atom netbook with Windows XP and 1GB of RAM. Seriously, this is 
such a joke.</div>
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<img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-07" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-07_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-07" width="215" /> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-31"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-31" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-31_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-31" width="215" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-57"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-57" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-57_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-30-57" width="215" /></a></div>
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Next, the email app. The stock email client Amazon included with last
 year's Fire HD was an abomination, frankly. It was slow, unintuitive, 
and it handled Gmail threads and labels extraordinarily poorly (eg, 
didn't handle them at all). The new email app is miles better, and I 
actually am fine using it for my personal email. My work account gets 
too much automated mail to manage without Gmail's divided inbox tabs, 
but I think most people will get along swimmingly here. Good job, 
Amazon.</div>
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The most-touted feature of the Fire HDX has undoubtedly been the 
Mayday button, a simple and easy way to connect to Amazon tech support. 
Just hit "Mayday" in the notification bar pull-down, and if the service 
is available (so far it's always been), just hit connect to speak to a 
live human being. I tested it and was connected with Clark in under 15 
seconds. You get a live video feed of the person you're speaking to 
(they only see your screen / hear you speak), and they'll guide you 
through any problems you're having. This is genuinely impressive stuff, 
and for less tech-savvy individuals, could be a serious reason to 
consider an HDX over an iPad or Android tablet of similar price.</div>
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The Appstore appears to have changed little from the version on last 
year's Fire HDs, which is a bit sad. I find the layout to be extremely 
cluttered and difficult to navigate, it's just really hard to <em>explore</em>
 content in the way you'd want to on a tablet. Apps are what make 
tablets fun and useful, and working through the Appstore just kind of 
feels like a chore - it's so busy. It's a bit slow, too, and that 
certainly doesn't help. As far as app selection is concerned, the 
Appstore is probably in a better state than when you last visited it. 
Most major apps are on there now (though some glaring omissions like 
Dropbox are still quite regrettable), and most are reasonably close to 
being up to date. Game selection is a bit lacking. Some apps even have 
special Kindle Fire UI enhancements, like Yelp, which has a tablet 
interface not yet available on the Play Store version.</div>
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<img alt="Screenshot_2013-11-26-08-41-06" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-11-26-08-41-06_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-11-26-08-41-06" width="215" /> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-45"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-45" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-45_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-29-45" width="215" /></a> <a class="fancybox" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="fancybox" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-31-13"><img alt="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-31-13" height="344" src="http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nexusae0_Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-31-13_thumb.png" style="display: inline;" title="Screenshot_2013-12-02-17-31-13" width="215" /></a></div>
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Otherwise, Fire OS is pretty basic. It's just one big portal to 
consuming stuff on Amazon, whether it be apps, movies, physical goods, 
books, or music. Fire OS is all about pushing you into those content 
channels, and making it all but impossible to get lost at any time. 
Honestly, even compared to the iPad, I think Fire OS may take the crown 
for user-friendliness - it's just so damn simple. Everything is very 
clearly labeled (a la the navigation ribbon), and Amazon vigorously 
enforces the boundaries.</div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">
Conclusion</h2>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The Fire HDX is generally very good at what it sets out to do. If 
your primary interest in a Kindle is in using apps, playing games, 
watching movies, and reading, this really is an excellent tablet for the
 money. You're getting incredible hardware - I really cannot get over 
how light this thing is - at an incredible price. If you don't mind 
missing out on Google's apps and having a really crappy web browser, 
it's hard not to recommend the HDX.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
However, if you're in the enthusiast camp, it's simply not worth it. 
Even iOS has access to most of Google's app suite (and a great browser),
 and to me, the overall experience on the HDX is utterly crippled in 
this regard. I just can't do without Google's <em>stuff</em>, and I 
cannot suffer through the monstrosity that is Silk when no alternatives 
are allowed. I simply never felt compelled to pick up the HDX and play 
with it.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Were the Fire HDX to [officially] run a Google-approved version of 
Android, well, it would be an interesting proposition indeed. Of course,
 that's wishful thinking - Amazon has shown no sign of giving up on the 
Fire OS strategy, and even continues to keep its completely 
Android-ready Instant Video app bespoke to the Fire lineup. Perhaps if 
Mr. Bezos loosened his death grip upon the Kindle experience just a 
little, he could expand its appeal a lot.</div>
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