I surprised Seth with a Nexus 7 tablet for Christmas. (We said we were doing no gifts... but I thought he deserved it since he's been doing such an AMAZING job taking care of us and he works soooo hard! Plus he did get me a gift - a necklace with Sofia's birthstone.) After Christmas, we ended up ordering a Kindle Fire HD for me. My phone is too small to read books on and the iPad I have is too heavy to hold one handed while I'm nursing the baby.
I had picked the Kindle because online it said I could use the lending library and stream videos using my Amazon Prime account. It showed up a day early, and I couldn't wait to get it fired up and start reading the book I'd gotten off Amazon (We Were the Kennedys). It only took about 30 minutes for me to be logging into my computer to see about returning it...
The whole thing still blows my mind, and I'm mad at myself for not reading the 1 star reviews (what was I thinking!? I always do this!) The locked screen runs advertisements that you cannot take off unless you pay an extra $20. Then the home screen runs advertisement "suggestions" of apps that other people bought, and those never go away... For as much as you spend on the Kindle Fire, you'd think you'd be able to get rid of those. Amazon, I tend to love you. A lot. But those aspects of the Kindle Fire totally turn me off, and so much so, that I'll spread the word to others that the Kindle Fire is a bad purchase. So disappointed in you Amazon. Ooo and you also got me with the lending library. I now know why you don't make the list of boks you lend through Prime accounts available... because that list kind of sucks! And the ones you have in the photo with the lending library information are deceiving.
I decided right then that I'd be a copy cat and get a Nexus 7 (& give Seth the perfect "I told you so" as he tried to convince me to get one in the first place). Best change of mind I've made. The google system on it is amazing! It syncs with everything and is soooo easy to use. The voice to type abilities are awesome (I'm still catching myself forgetting they are there though and typing out stuff before realizing there's a little microphone button that I can speak into instead!) I added the Kindle app and have access to the books I've bought on Amazon along with ebooks I've checked out from the library. I added the Nook app for books I will buy off of there with a gift card I have. I also have the Google Books app for books I might buy in the future and PDFs.
My music has been transferred (VERY EASILY) from iTunes onto the google music manager (& it updates automatically if I add songs!) Soooo much easier than iTunes and adding music to my iPhone or iPad. I have to say Google Nexus, you might be convincing me away from an iPhone for my next phone purchase & I never thought I'd be saying that! (There are only 3 things I can think of right now that would make this tablet absolutely amazing... a button on the screen part to wake it up - or me just getting used to one not being there like the iPhone has, a camera on the back side so I could point it at Sofia during video chats on Google+ and take photos of her, and an easy way to have all my contacts synced from my phone and email, but that probably just takes some time and organization on my part...)
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