A usability study the Kindle Fire. This Kindle features an iPad-style color, multitouch screen, unlike its black-and-white e-ink predecessors. But unlike Apple's iPad, it's half the size and is powered by Android -- and much weaker hardware -- under the hood.
Nielsen found that between the Kindle Fire's 7-inch screen and its underperforming innards, some of its features were extremely hard to use, including ones that were advertised prominently.
Fiction reading
For pure reading purposes, Nielsen concludes, a black-and-white e-reader wins for just turning page after page of fiction. Not only is the Fire much heavier than the earlier e-ink Kindle (now called the Kindle Keyboard), at 14.6 ounces compared to 8.5, it also requires you to leave smudge marks across the screen as you swipe your finger to turn pages. When interaction with the screen is required, such as for looking up sections in textbooks, the Kindle Fire's touch screen is superior, but a black-and-white Kindle Touch is now also available.
(The iPad 2 weighs one and a third pounds, according to Apple's website, and also lacks physical page-turning buttons.)
Magazines
Numerous reviews, like Peter Svensson's for the Associated Press, have pointed out that the Kindle Fire is subpar at reading magazines. Svensson called it "a lot of work" to try to read magazines on the device, and Nielsen's study confirmed that, pointing out that the experience is better than on a black-and-white e-reader but still calling it "miserable."
In fairness to the Kindle Fire, magazine reading on the iPad can suffer from many of the same drawbacks, depending on the publication. IOS app developer Justin Williams wrote a scathing review of three iPad magazines and how hard it was just to subscribe and download their issues. Williams and Nielsen agree that, as Nielsen put it, "the content isn't designed for the device or for interactive reading".
Web browsing
According to Nielsen, while a 10-inch tablet like the iPad excels at displaying full websites, the Kindle Fire's 7-inch screen causes "frequent tap errors and accidental activation". In other words, not being able to tap on the thing that you're trying to, such as the login boxes for Facebook (there is no official Facebook app for the Kindle Fire). Nielsen also noted that the lack of a dedicated "home" button made switching between the web browser and other apps more complicated.
On the upside, viewing the mobile versions of websites on the Kindle Fire's 7-inch screen "felt luxurious."
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