亚马逊kindle设置_亚马逊的新款Kindle Fire平板电脑：极客评论

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We got our Kindle Fire a few days ago, and since then we’ve been poking, prodding, and generally trying to figure out how to break it. Before you go out and buy your own, check out our in-depth review.

几天前，我们拿到了Kindle Fire ，从那时起，我们一直在戳戳，刺探，并且通常试图弄清楚如何破解它。在外出购买自己的产品之前，请查看我们的深入评论。

Note: This review is extremely long, so we’ve split it up between multiple pages. You can use the navigation links or buttons at the bottom to flip between pages.

注意：此评论非常长，因此我们将其分为多个页面。您可以使用底部的导航链接或按钮在页面之间切换。

硬体 (The Hardware)

Once you pick up the tablet, you’ll find that it’s a little heavier than you’d think for the size, though by no means too heavy. The back feels grippy, like it’s rubbery or something, and it overall has a good feel in your hand. The screen has a 1024×600 resolution at 169 pixels per inch, which means text on the screen is very crisp and easy to read, even when it’s very small. The IPS (in-plane switching) tech for the display works well, and you can generally see the screen clearly from an angle.

拿起平板电脑后，您会发现它的重量比您想象的要重一点，尽管绝对不会太重。背部感觉像橡胶一样的东西，很抓地力，并且总体感觉很好。屏幕具有1024×600的分辨率，每英寸169像素，这意味着屏幕上的文本非常清晰且易于阅读，即使很小。显示器的IPS(平面内切换)技术效果很好，通常您可以从一个角度清楚地看到屏幕。

In comparison to the iPad, the Kindle Fire is a little thicker on the edges, though because of the dimensions you can fit the device in a decent-sized coat pocket, or even the back pocket of my Gap jeans… though I felt ridiculous walking around with the tablet sticking out of my pants like that. Being able to put the tablet in my coat pocket definitely makes it more likely that I’d carry it outside the house with me—there’s something annoying about having to walk into a coffee shop with the iPad in hand.

与iPad相比，Kindle Fire的边缘稍厚一些，尽管由于尺寸较大，您可以将它放在合适大小的外套口袋中，甚至可以放在我的Gap牛仔裤的后袋中……尽管我觉得走路很可笑平板电脑像这样从我的裤子里伸出来。能够将平板电脑放在外套口袋里肯定会让我更容易将平板电脑带到屋外—带着iPad走进咖啡店实在令人讨厌。

Left to right: iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle (3) Keyboard, Kindle Touch

从左到右：iPad，Kindle Fire，Kindle(3)键盘，Kindle Touch

There’s only a single button, oddly placed at the bottom… even though all the other Kindle devices have their power button at the bottom, it just feels wrong for a power button on a tablet to be placed there instead of on the upper right like almost every other device out there. The other problem with the button in that position is that you can’t lean the tablet standing up without the case, you have to flip it upside down. It’s a (very) minor problem that is likely remedied by putting the Kindle in the leather case, but we didn’t have one while testing.

只有一个按钮，奇怪地位于底部...即使所有其他Kindle设备的底部都具有电源按钮，将平板电脑上的电源按钮放置在此处而不是像上面一样放置在右上方的感觉还是不对的其他所有设备。按钮在该位置的另一个问题是，没有保护套，您无法将平板电脑站起来，而必须将其上下翻转。将Kindle放在皮套中可以解决这个(非常)小的问题，但是测试时我们没有一个。

The speakers are at the top of the device, and they are pathetic. Even at maximum you can’t hear them very well—this device was clearly designed to be used with earphones. There’s no hardware volume controls, which sometimes feels wrong, but since you won’t be getting unexpected (loud) phone calls on the Fire, it’s probably not a big deal. The volume controls are only a tap away most of the time, hidden behind the settings.

扬声器在设备的顶部，令人讨厌。即使最大程度，您也听不到它们的声音-该设备显然是为与耳机配合使用而设计的。没有硬件音量控制，有时会感觉不对劲，但是由于您不会在Fire上接到意想不到的(大声)电话，所以这可能没什么大不了的。大多数时候，只需轻按一下音量控件即可，隐藏在设置后面。

The touch technology is where the device breaks down a bit—as you’re going through the menus, it feels very slightly off somehow, like it hasn’t been calibrated properly. It’s not a problem everywhere, but the carousel navigation that looks so pretty is where you’ll notice it right away: it never seems to stop where you want it to. We’re hoping that Amazon can fix this in a future update, but even if not, it’s not a deal-breaker, just an annoyance.

触摸技术是设备出现故障的地方-当您浏览菜单时，感觉某种程度上略有偏离，就像未正确校准一样。并不是到处都存在问题，但是看起来如此漂亮的轮播导航是您会立即注意到的地方：它似乎永远不会停在您想要的地方。我们希望亚马逊可以在将来的更新中解决此问题，但是即使不能解决，这也不是破坏交易的事情，只是麻烦。

Perhaps the most important factor when considering a tablet is battery life, and the Fire isn’t terrible, but you’ll definitely notice that you’re not getting the iPad’s solid 10 hours either. It’s rated at 8 hours of reading or 7.5 hours of video playback with wireless off. The problem with keeping wireless off, of course, is that the device is designed to stream video and other content rather than play it locally, given the fairly small internal 8 GB of memory (6 GB usable) and lack of expansion slots. In our testing, after 4 hours of streaming movies off the free Prime section, the battery life was at 38%. With the Wi-Fi off the battery life is a little better, and you might get a little over 7 hours. In realistic use, you’ll probably be able to use it normally (on/off) throughout the day without a problem.

考虑平板电脑时，最重要的因素可能是电池续航时间，而且Fire并不可怕，但您肯定会注意到，iPad的稳定运行时间也达不到10个小时。在关闭无线功能的情况下，它的阅读时间为8小时，视频播放时间为7.5小时。当然，由于内部8 GB的内存非常小(可用6 GB)，并且缺少扩展插槽，因此保持无线关闭的问题是该设备旨在流式传输视频和其他内容，而不是在本地播放。在我们的测试中，在免费的Prime部分播放了4小时的流媒体电影后，电池寿命为38％。关闭Wi-Fi后，电池寿命会更长一些，而且您可能会得到7个小时以上的电量。在实际使用中，您可能可以全天正常地(开/关)使用它，而不会出现问题。

A few other notes: There’s no hardware home button. You can mount the Kindle Fire as a drive, and copy any files you want to it easily. It’s also already been rooted.

其他一些注意事项：没有硬件主页按钮。您可以将Kindle Fire作为驱动器安装，然后将所需的任何文件轻松复制到它。它也已经扎根。

Specifications

技术指标

Since all geeks love specs, here’s the Kindle Fire specs, directly from Amazon:

由于所有极客都喜欢规格，因此以下是直接来自亚马逊的Kindle Fire规格：

Display: 7″ multi-touch display with IPS (in-plane switching) technology and anti-reflective treatment, 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi, 16 million colors.
显示器： 7英寸多点触摸显示器，采用IPS(平面内切换)技术和防反射处理，在169 ppi时分辨率为1024 x 600像素，1600万种颜色。
Size: 7.5″ x 4.7″ x 0.45″ (190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm).
尺寸： 7.5英寸x 4.7英寸x 0.45英寸(190毫米x 120毫米x 11.4毫米)。
Weight: 14.6 ounces (413 grams).
重量： 14.6盎司(413克)。
Storage: 8GB internal (approximately 6GB available for user content). That’s enough for 80 apps, plus 10 movies or 800 songs or 6,000 books.
存储空间：内部8GB(用户内容大约6GB)。足够用于80个应用程序，再加上10部电影或800首歌曲或6,000本书。
Battery Life: Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback, with wireless off.
电池寿命：可以关闭无线功能，最多连续8小时阅读或7.5小时视频播放。
Charge Time: Fully charges in approximately 4 hours.
充电时间：约4个小时充满电。
Wi-Fi: 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, WEP, WPA, WPA2. Does not support ad-hoc networks.
Wi-Fi： 802.11b，802.11g，802.11n，WEP，WPA，WPA2。不支持临时网络。
USB: USB 2.0 (micro-B connector)
USB： USB 2.0(微型B连接器)
Audio: 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, top-mounted stereo speakers.
音频： 3.5毫米立体声音频插Kong，顶部安装立体声扬声器。
Content Formats Supported: Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8.
支持的内容格式： Kindle(AZW)，TXT，PDF，未受保护的MOBI，PRC，本机，Audible(可听增强(AA，AAX))，DOC，DOCX，JPEG，GIF，PNG，BMP，非DRM AAC，MP3，MIDI ，OGG，WAV，MP4，VP8。

Notes: Compared to the iPad, which has a 1024×768 resolution screen, there’s a lot more pixels per inch. There’s no microphone, camera, bluetooth, or GPS, and no option for 3G. The storage seems really small, but when you consider that the device is meant primarily for streaming content, it isn’t that big of a deal.

注意：与具有1024×768分辨率屏幕的iPad相比，每英寸有更多的像素。没有麦克风，相机，蓝牙或GPS，也没有3G选项。存储空间似乎很小，但是当您考虑该设备主要用于流式传输内容时，这没什么大不了的。

善与恶，无论发生什么 (The Good, the Bad, and the Whatever)

We’ve written up a very full-featured review of just about every feature, so you should keep reading the next few pages. If you don’t want to do that, here’s our overall summary for you:

我们对几乎所有功能都撰写了功能非常全面的评论，因此您应该继续阅读接下来的几页。如果您不想这样做，那么以下是我们为您提供的总体摘要：

Good

好

Price: It’s only $199, less than half of the cheapest iPad.
价格：只有199美元，不到最便宜的iPad的一半。
It’s completely integrated with Amazon’s content: music, videos, etc.
它与Amazon的内容(音乐，视频等)完全集成。
Book reading is great indoors.
在室内读书很棒。
The form factor is really nice, it fits in a coat pocket.
外形非常好，适合放在大衣口袋中。
Does have lots of apps and games.
确实有很多应用和游戏。
It’s already been rooted, and you can install unsanctioned apps manually without rooting.
它已经被植根，您可以手动安装未经批准的应用程序而无需植根。

Bad

坏

It’s slower, smaller, and the battery life does not equal the iPad.
它更慢，更小，并且电池寿命不像iPad。
There’s no Google Maps, Gmail, Google Voice, or any Google apps.
没有Google地图，Gmail，Google语音或任何Google应用。
It’s US only at the moment.
目前仅在美国。
There’s no camera, no home button, very small internal storage.
没有相机，没有主页按钮，内部存储空间很小。
Way less apps than the iPad.
应用程序比iPad少。
If you like reading outside, it won’t be fun.
如果您喜欢在外面读书，那将不会很有趣。

Should You Buy It?

你应该买吗？

It depends. If the form factor is not important to you, you don’t hate Apple, and you have plenty of money, the iPad 2 is a better choice. If you want to read anywhere, including sunlight, you should get yourself the e-ink Kindle Touch.

这取决于。如果外形尺寸对您不重要，您不讨厌Apple，但您有很多钱，iPad 2是更好的选择。如果您想在任何地方阅读，包括阳光，都应该使用电子墨水Kindle Touch 。

Otherwise, the Kindle Fire is a very nice, capable tablet that can do most everything you’d want.

否则， Kindle Fire是一款非常出色的功能强大的平板电脑，可以完成您想要的大多数事情。

Note: we just got our hands on the Nook Tablet, and we’re going to be posting our thoughts on that in the coming days.

注意：我们刚刚接触了Nook平板电脑，并将在未来几天内发布关于该产品的想法。

启动它 (Starting It Up)

The Fire is packaged simply, with nothing more than a power cord and the device. There’s no user manual to read, and you don’t have to plug it into your computer. All you really need to do is turn the thing on, and that’s where you’ll find a very pleasant startup experience. If you bought your Kindle Fire through your Amazon account (as opposed to a gift from somebody else), the setup experience is nearly instant—just connect to your Wi-Fi network, and you’re done. If your tablet was a gift, you’ll have to login instead, but that’s literally all there is to it.

Fire的包装简单，仅需电源线和设备即可。没有要阅读的用户手册，也不必将其插入计算机。您真正需要做的就是打开电源，在那您会找到非常愉快的启动体验。如果您通过亚马逊帐户购买了Kindle Fire(而不是别人的礼物)，则安装体验几乎是即时的-只需连接到Wi-Fi网络即可。如果您的平板电脑是礼物，则必须登录，但这实际上就是所有内容。

The welcome screens walk you through the user interface and explain how to use the different basic features to get yourself started. It’s not that the interface is terribly confusing—but it’s definitely a nice touch and lends to the overall experience. We handed the device to a non-geek iPad user without showing them the welcome screens, and there was a minute or two of confusion while trying to understand how it all works, so these screens are a nice touch.

欢迎屏幕将引导您浏览用户界面，并说明如何使用各种基本功能入门。界面并不是很令人困惑-但这绝对是一个不错的选择，可以带来整体体验。我们将设备交给了非极客级的iPad用户，而没有向他们显示欢迎屏幕，在试图了解它们的工作原理时，一两分钟的困惑让他们感到很舒服。

The top navigation bar allows you to access all of your Amazon cloud content very quickly—or access the Amazon store to purchase more content. Whether you head into Books, Music, Video, Newsstand, or Apps, the content is initially stored in your Amazon account, and can be either streamed or downloaded to the device. The Fire is, after all, a portal into Amazon’s content network.

顶部导航栏使您可以非常快速地访问所有Amazon云内容-或访问Amazon商店以购买更多内容。无论您是进入书本，音乐，视频，报亭还是应用程序，内容最初都存储在您的Amazon帐户中，并且可以流式传输或下载到设备上。毕竟，Fire是进入亚马逊内容网络的门户。

The Carousel holds all your recent content, which is a little odd in some ways. You’ll see all the books you’ve purchased, even if they aren’t downloaded to the device. You won’t see all your music here, just the recent music that you’ve played, apps you’ve used, and it’ll show the last web site that you visited. You can pin any of these to the favorites bar at the bottom, which is pretty much how you’re going to access your frequently used icons—using the carousel is more of a novelty than anything else, and as you use the device more you’ll end up not even bothering with it most of the time.

轮播会保存您最近的所有内容，在某些方面有些奇怪。您会看到已购买的所有书籍，即使它们没有下载到设备上也是如此。您不会在这里看到所有音乐，只会看到最近播放的音乐，已使用的应用程序，并且会显示您最近访问的网站。您可以将其中任何一个固定在底部的“收藏夹”栏中，这几乎就是您访问常用图标的方式-使用轮播比其他任何东西都更新颖，并且随着使用设备的增多，大部分时间甚至都不会打扰它。

Rather than a hardware button, the Fire gives you a software Home button that’s usually on the screen, but more often than not, it’s hidden behind a tap on the screen. This is one of those minor things that very quickly becomes irritating, especially when you get trapped behind a game or app that doesn’t present the home button to you. There’s a reason that button-hating Apple devices still have a home button—you need a way to get back to the start screen with a single press. It’s a huge oversight by Amazon, and hopefully their next tablet includes a button.

除了提供硬件按钮外，Fire还为您提供了通常位于屏幕上的软件“主页”按钮，但通常情况下，它隐藏在屏幕上的水龙头后面。这是很快会变得令人烦恼的那些小事情之一，尤其是当您被困在没有向您提供“主页”按钮的游戏或应用背后时。讨厌按钮的Apple设备仍然具有主页按钮是有原因的-您需要一种方法，只需按一下即可回到开始屏幕。这是亚马逊的巨大监督，希望他们的下一款平板电脑包含一个按钮。

The settings can be accessed by pressing the top right-hand corner of the screen, where you can enable/disable Wi-Fi, adjust the brightness, or manage the volume, since there’s no hardware volume buttons. For the most part, this works out well, but if you’re using a game you’ll end up having to find the volume controls somewhere else. Like many of our gripes with the tablet, it’s a minor problem, but still, these little inconsistencies take away from the overall experience.

可以通过按屏幕的右上角来访问这些设置，因为没有硬件音量按钮，因此您可以在其中启用/禁用Wi-Fi，调整亮度或管理音量。在大多数情况下，这种方法效果很好，但是如果您使用的是游戏，则最终不得不在其他地方找到音量控件。就像我们对平板电脑的许多控制一样，这是一个小问题，但是，这些微小的矛盾还是会抵消总体体验。

You can also use the settings menu to force the device to sync or lock the screen orientation. If you’ve got music playing, you’ll see the currently playing song as well as music controls, which is fairly convenient—assuming you’re using one of the standard Kindle apps that allow you to quickly get to the settings.

您也可以使用设置菜单来强制设备同步或锁定屏幕方向。如果您正在播放音乐，则将看到当前正在播放的歌曲以及音乐控件，这非常方便-假设您使用的是标准Kindle应用程序之一，可快速进入设置。

Once you’re past the welcome screens you’ll be immediately able to start using the device. The search box allows you to search through all of your library content—that means any books, music, or anything stored on the device, or even the content stored in the Amazon cloud. You’ll find yourself using this mostly to find music, since browsing through your book collection makes more sense by simply clicking Books at the top—that screen is organized by recent books, and if you’re anything like me, you’ll just pin your favorite books to the favorites bar.

进入欢迎屏幕后，您将可以立即开始使用该设备。搜索框使您可以搜索所有图书馆内容，这意味着任何书籍，音乐或设备上存储的所有内容，甚至是Amazon云中存储的内容。您会发现自己主要是用它来查找音乐，因为浏览图书集更有意义，只需单击顶部的“图书”即可-该屏幕由最近的图书组成，并且如果您像我一样，将您喜欢的书固定到“收藏夹”栏。

The touch navigation on the device is decent, and often just fine, but sometimes we’ve found it irritating. The most annoying thing on the entire device is actually the carousel on the home screen, which is tuned wrong somehow—you flick it slightly, and it just keeps scrolling. Try and stop on a particular item, and you’ll find yourself on the next item almost every time.

设备上的触摸导航很不错，通常也很好，但是有时候我们发现它很烦人。整个设备上最令人讨厌的东西实际上是主屏幕上的旋转木马，它以某种方式被调错了—轻拂一下，它就一直滚动。尝试停止特定项目，几乎每次都可以找到下一个项目。

The keyboard feels just slightly too slow, and while it’s decent in portrait mode (on the left), in landscape mode has a spacebar that’s offset even further to the left, so we found ourselves hitting the period key instead of the space key. It’s not unusable, it will just take some getting used to. You’ll also find that on certain screens, notably the search screen, it’s a little slow because of the page refreshing.

键盘的感觉有点太慢，虽然在纵向模式下(左侧)很不错，但在横向模式下却有一个空格键，该空格键向左偏移得更远，因此我们发现自己敲了句号键而不是空格键。这不是不可用的，只是需要一些习惯。您还会发现在某些屏幕上，特别是在搜索屏幕上，由于页面刷新，它有点慢。

Unlike most Android devices, you don’t swipe down to get to the Notifications pane—instead, you’ll see a count in the upper left with the number of notifications you currently have, and you have to tap to bring down the pane. This works alright most of the time, though definitely makes it a bit less user-friendly. If you have a number of applications open and music playing, the count will include both ongoing tasks as well as notifications, making it confusing to understand whether that count means you have a new notification or not. Most Android devices get around this confusion by placing icons in the upper left, but you won’t see that here. And yes, just like any Kindle device, you can transfer files to the device by simply plugging it into a computer, where it’s mounted as a drive.

与大多数Android设备不同，您无需向下滑动即可进入“通知”窗格-相反，您会在左上角看到一个计数，其中包含当前拥有的通知数量，而您必须点击以拉下该窗格。在大多数情况下，这种方法都可以正常工作，尽管绝对会使用户友好程度降低。如果您有许多正在打开的应用程序并正在播放音乐，则该计数将同时包含正在进行的任务和通知，这使您难以理解该计数是否意味着您有新的通知。大多数Android设备通过在左上角放置图标来避免这种混乱，但是您在这里看不到它。是的，就像任何Kindle设备一样，您只需将其插入安装为驱动器的计算机即可将文件传输到该设备。

Kindle 3 owners will be thrilled to see that the lock screensavers are pleasant—there’s no more scary pictures of Emily Dickinson to be forced to look at. There’s one oddity: it doesn’t matter what orientation you’re holding the device, the lock screen will always be the same. So even if you’re using the Fire in landscape mode, you’ll have to unlock via portrait. It’s not really a problem, just interesting, since the device allows you to rotate it completely upside down, and it’ll flip the screen for you.

Kindle 3拥有者很高兴看到锁定屏幕保护程序令人愉悦-不再有被强迫看待的Emily Dickinson恐怖照片。有一个奇怪的地方：握住设备的方向无关紧要，锁定屏幕将始终相同。因此，即使您在横向模式下使用Fire，也必须通过人像解锁。这并不是真正的问题，只是有趣，因为该设备允许您将其完全上下翻转，并且可以为您翻转屏幕。

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使用Kindle进行阅读(Using the Kindle for Reading)

Just like every other Kindle, the Fire has a solid reading experience. Head to the Books section, and you’ll see a fairly standard bookshelf view with all of your purchased books. You can quickly download any of the books to the device, and start reading them right away. If you’ve got a large number of books in your collection, it’s definitely a lot easier to navigate with touch rather than using buttons or the e-ink display on the previous devices.

就像其他所有Kindle一样，Fire拥有扎实的阅读体验。转到“图书”部分，您会看到所有购买的图书都具有相当标准的书架视图。您可以将任何书籍快速下载到设备上，并立即开始阅读。如果您的藏书中有大量书籍，那么触摸操作绝对比使用以前的设备上的按钮或电子墨水显示器要容易得多。

When you get to the actual reading view, it’s presented full-screen with a flick to switch pages, which works pretty well unless you’re very quickly going through the pages, where you’ll notice a little bit of a stutter, but it works well overall. Tapping the screen will show you the controls view, which lets you quickly page through the book, search, change the font size, or access the menu.

当您进入实际的阅读视图时，它会全屏显示，并带有轻拂以切换页面的效果，除非您很快浏览所有页面，否则效果会很好，但您会发现其中有些断断续续，但是总体上运作良好。轻击屏幕将显示控件视图，使您可以快速翻阅本书，搜索，更改字体大小或访问菜单。

The navigation menu is one area where the Fire definitely is a big improvement over the e-ink Kindles—you can easily get to anywhere in the book, including all of your bookmarks and notes, which show up right there on the screen. Extremely useful for non-fiction books you might have marked up with a ton of notes. Which brings us to a good point—the Fire is a lot better for non-fiction in general, since you might want to quickly flip through to a section, or re-open them on a regular basis.

导航菜单是Fire绝对比电子墨水Kindle有了很大改进的地方-您可以轻松地到达书中的任何地方，包括所有书签和便笺，这些便笺都显示在屏幕上。对于非小说类书籍，这可能非常有用，您可能在其中标记了很多笔记。这给我们带来了一个好点-一般而言，Fire对于非小说类来说要好得多，因为您可能想快速翻阅某个部分，或者定期重新打开它们。

在Kindle上播放音乐 (Playing Music on the Kindle)

If you’ve used Amazon’s Cloud Player on the web or any other device, you’ll be familiar with the experience on the Kindle Fire. You can access your entire music collection, stream it off their servers, download to cache on the device, or buy new music in the store. The player works well in either landscape or portrait mode, and you can play music in the background.

如果您在网络或任何其他设备上使用过Amazon的Cloud Player，您将熟悉Kindle Fire上的体验。您可以访问整个音乐收藏，将其从服务器流式传输，下载到设备上的缓存中，或在商店中购买新音乐。该播放器在横向或纵向模式下均可正常工作，并且您可以在后台播放音乐。

Purchasing music is almost too simple—once you search the store for what you’re looking for, click buy, and it’ll be delivered to your cloud drive instantly. You can head to one of the albums and start playing right away, or download it to the device.

购买音乐几乎太简单了—一旦您在商店中搜索所需内容，然后单击“购买”，音乐便会立即传送到您的云驱动器中。您可以转到其中一张专辑并立即开始播放，也可以将其下载到设备上。

Being able to listen to music on the same device you’re reading a book is really pretty useful, especially if you’re taking the Fire on a plane.

能够在阅读书籍的同一设备上聆听音乐确实非常有用，尤其是当您在飞机上坐火时。

流(和下载)视频 (Streaming (and Downloading) Video)

Head to the Video section, and if you’re a Prime member you’ll immediately have access to a large collection of free video that can be streamed to the device. This includes shows like Lost and The Wonder Years along with many others. If that doesn’t fit the bill, there’s also a much larger number of videos that can be rented or purchased, though it’s a little inconsistent—some titles can only be rented, some are 24 hours, and some are 48 hours.

转到“视频”部分，如果您是Prime会员，则可以立即访问可以流式传输到设备的大量免费视频。这包括像《迷失》和《神奇年代》之类的节目，还有许多其他节目。如果这不符合要求，则可以租借或购买更多视频，尽管这有点不一致-有些影片只能租借，有些是24小时，有些是48小时。

The Fire can’t play real HD video, at least not according to Amazon’s specifications—what’s interesting is that if you click to see compatible devices, the Fire is listed there. The standard video, however, looks great on the screen, and is presented in widescreen format. If you rent something in HD, you can watch on the Fire in standard def, or watch it on your computer or TV in high def instead.

Fire不能播放真正的高清视频，至少不能按照亚马逊的规格播放-有趣的是，如果单击以查看兼容的设备，Fire就会在此处列出。但是，标准视频在屏幕上看起来不错，并且以宽屏格式显示。如果您以HD高画质租借东西，则可以在标清电视上观看Fire，也可以在高清电视上在计算机或电视上观看。

Downloading

正在下载

If you rent or purchase a movie or TV episode, you can download it to the device for later viewing. Once you download a video, you have either 24 or 48 hours to watch it before it expires, which makes it a little inconvenient to load up your tablet with movies before a trip, since you won’t be able to watch them on the way back, assuming you want to vacation for more than a day. It’s definitely good enough for a long plane flight, and you could reload it again before heading back, though your hotel’s Wi-Fi will probably take forever to download the movie. Since there’s not a ton of internal storage, you’re only going to be able to download about 10 movies on an otherwise empty Kindle—if you’ve got lots of apps, magazines, and music downloaded, it might be 5 or less movies.

如果您租借或购买电影或电视剧集，则可以将其下载到设备上以供以后观看。下载视频后，您可以在24或48个小时内观看该视频，否则该视频将在到期之前观看，这会给您带来一些不便，因为在旅途中您将无法观看电影返回，假设您想休假一天以上。对于长途飞机飞行来说，这绝对足够了，您可以在重新装上它，然后再返回，尽管酒店的Wi-Fi可能需要花费很长时间才能下载电影。由于没有大量内部存储空间，因此您只能在原本为空的Kindle上下载大约10部电影-如果您下载了许多应用程序，杂志和音乐，则可能只有5部或更少的电影。

Your best bet, as a geek, is to rip your own movies and copy them over through the USB cable. The one oddity is that they won’t show up in the Videos section, you’ll have to access them through the Gallery application instead. This way you could also control the bitrate and size of the files if you wanted, so you can fit more on the drive.

作为怪胎，您最好的选择是翻录自己的电影，然后通过USB电缆将其复制。奇怪的是它们不会出现在“视频”部分中，您必须通过“图库”应用程序访问它们。这样，您还可以根据需要控制文件的比特率和大小，以便在驱动器上安装更多文件。

使用Kindle Fire的“ Silk”浏览器进行浏览 (Browsing with the Kindle Fire’s “Silk” Browser)

Much has been made of the Silk browser on the Kindle Fire, starting with a lot of hype about how fast it’s going to be. The main benefit to the browser, according to the marketing documentation, is that it uses the power of Amazon’s cloud to compress and optimize pages so that everything is much faster.

Kindle Fire上的Silk浏览器已经做了很多工作，首先是对其速度有多大的宣传。根据市场营销文档，浏览器的主要好处是，它利用亚马逊云的功能来压缩和优化页面，从而使一切都更快。

Update: be sure to read our followup post, where we explain how to make the browser *actually* fast.

更新：请务必阅读我们的后续文章，其中我们解释了如何使浏览器“实际上”快速。

In the testing that we’ve done over the last day or two since getting our Fire, the browsing experience is not quite as fast as one would hope. Amazon claims this is because their caching algorithm has yet to be primed, but we’re testing this on a 35/35 Mb FIOS network here, so it shouldn’t matter. Scrolling pages is a little jittery, and the screen seems to be just the wrong size for a lot of sites—like ours, which is clearly going to need to default to the mobile theme for Kindle readers. The tabbed browsing just feels like a waste of screen space, especially in landscape mode.

自获得Fire以来的最后一两天，我们进行的测试中，浏览体验并不像人们希望的那样快。亚马逊声称这是因为他们的缓存算法尚未准备好，但是我们在这里在35/35 Mb FIOS网络上对此进行了测试，所以没关系。滚动页面有些紧张，屏幕似乎对于许多网站(例如我们的网站)来说大小不正确，对于Kindle阅读器来说，显然需要默认使用移动主题。选项卡式浏览就像浪费屏幕空间，尤其是在横向模式下。

All the complaining aside, the Fire’s browser is pretty much exactly what you’d hope for if you ignored all the hype. It works well, displays pages about as well as a small tablet is going to, and has all the standard Android features like the Share Page option, which quickly lets you share the page via email, Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, or whatever applications you’ve installed that support the feature.

除了所有抱怨之外，如果您忽略了所有炒作，Fire的浏览器几乎正是您希望的。它运行良好，可显示与小型平板电脑有关的页面，并具有所有标准Android功能，例如“共享页面”选项，该功能可让您快速通过电子邮件，Twitter，Facebook，Evernote或您使用的任何应用程序共享页面已经安装了支持该功能的产品。

When you scroll down the page, it does hide the address bar, but it’s still a lot of wasted pixels on the screen.

向下滚动页面时，它确实隐藏了地址栏，但屏幕上仍然有很多浪费的像素。

在Kindle Fire上发送电子邮件 (Email on the Kindle Fire)

This device was not designed for email. There’s a built-in application that supports Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, IMAP, but it’s not the greatest application—especially if you’re used to the excellent Gmail application on every Android phone. You won’t have access to your contacts unless you manually export them from Gmail and copy them over to the device using the USB cable, it creates weird labels in Gmail, and it doesn’t natively know how to handle custom domains in Gmail without a tweak.

该设备并非设计用于电子邮件。有一个内置的应用程序支持Gmail，Hotmail，Yahoo，IMAP，但它并不是最出色的应用程序，尤其是如果您已经习惯了每部Android手机上出色的Gmail应用程序。您将无法访问联系人，除非您手动从Gmail导出联系人并使用USB电缆将其复制到设备上，它会在Gmail中创建奇怪的标签，并且它本身不知道如何处理Gmail中的自定义域调整。

It is functional, however, and it supports Push for email delivery, so you’ll get notifications in the top bar whenever email comes in. You can switch this off, of course, in the settings. If you’re using an Exchange server you’ll have to grab a different application from the app market.

但是，它是功能性的，并且它支持Push进行电子邮件传递，因此，每当收到电子邮件时，您都会在顶部栏中收到通知。您当然可以在设置中将其关闭。如果您使用的是Exchange服务器，则必须从应用程序市场中获取其他应用程序。

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阅读报纸和杂志 (Reading Newspapers and Magazines)

One of the unique features of the Kindle Fire is the ability to read magazines, in all their glorious full-color originality. There’s loads of magazines already onboard, with old favorites like Popular Science, Wired, Car and Driver, and loads of newspapers like New York Times and the Washington Post. Most of these are designed as a subscription model—you can buy single issues, but it isn’t cheap. Instead, you need to sign up for a monthly fee and the magazine or newspaper will be automatically delivered to the Kindle. You can see all your current magazines by heading the Newsstand, or you can shop in the store for anything else you want.

Kindle Fire的独特功能之一是具有阅读杂志的能力，而这些杂志的全部色彩都是光彩夺目的。船上已经有大量的杂志，其中有诸如《大众科学》，《有线》，《汽车和驾驶员》等老热门书籍，以及《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》等报纸。其中大多数都设计为订阅模型，您可以购买一期，但价格并不便宜。取而代之的是，您需要注册每月费用，杂志或报纸将自动发送到Kindle。您可以前往报亭查看所有当前杂志，也可以在商店中购买其他所需商品。

For some things, this works pretty well, like the New York Times, which is mostly text content. For other magazines, like Popular Science and Car and Driver, there are still some formatting problems. The default view is the image view, which doesn’t work quite right. The 7” screen is not big enough to clearly read most of the content, and zooming in works tolerably until you flip to the next page. Then it zooms back out again. You can use the menus to switch from Page view into Text view, where you can much more easily read the content, but a lot of the visual awesomeness is gone. It’s definitely something that needs to be solved.

在某些方面，这非常有效，例如《纽约时报》(New York Times)，主要是文本内容。对于其他杂志，例如《大众科学》和《汽车与驾驶员》，仍然存在一些格式问题。默认视图是图像视图，它不能正常工作。 7英寸的屏幕不够大，无法清晰地阅读大部分内容，并且可以放大直到您翻到下一页为止。然后，它再次缩小。您可以使用菜单从“页面”视图切换到“文本”视图，您可以在其中更轻松地阅读内容，但是很多视觉效果都消失了。这绝对是需要解决的问题。

Then there’s magazines like Wired and GQ, which are not delivered using the Amazon content system—instead, they are implemented as apps, and you have to subscribe and sign in separately. They are a bit more of a hassle, but the end result is a really beautiful magazine that’s designed for the Kindle. These magazines are gorgeous, and really a testament to what a tablet magazine can be. You can swipe up and down on some pages to read the entire article, or flip left and right to navigate between articles. There’s also a way to zoom backwards and see all the pages of the magazine in a view where you can more easily scan the entire magazine. It’s impressive.

然后是诸如Wired和GQ之类的杂志，它们不是使用Amazon内容系统交付的，而是作为应用程序实现的，您必须分别订阅和登录。它们有点麻烦，但最终结果是为Kindle设计的精美杂志。这些杂志非常棒，确实证明了平板电脑杂志的特色。您可以在某些页面上上下滑动以阅读整篇文章，也可以左右滑动以在文章之间导航。还有一种方法可以向后缩放并在视图中查看杂志的所有页面，在其中您可以更轻松地扫描整个杂志。令人印象深刻

There’s just one odd thing: if you go straight to the web site you can subscribe to the print version for $12/year, and then you can get the Kindle Fire version for free. If you subscribe directly to the Kindle Fire version, it’s $20/year.

奇怪的是：如果您直接访问该网站，则可以按每年12美元的价格订购印刷版，然后可以免费获得Kindle Fire版。如果您直接订阅Kindle Fire版本，则每年20美元。

Kindle Fire应用商店 (Kindle Fire App Store)

And now, the part that loads of people have been wondering about: the Apps. There’s a very large library of applications you can install on your Kindle, including things like Netflix, Hulu, Pandora, Seesmic, Angry Birds, Evernote, and a lot more. We tested Netflix, and it works fairly well, although it’s a little jumpy—but we’re guessing part of that is on Netflix, since their navigation is laggy on our Roku box as well.

而现在，许多人一直想知道的部分：应用程序。您可以在Kindle上安装大量的应用程序库，包括Netflix，Hulu，Pandora，Seesmic，Angry Birds，Evernote等。我们对Netflix进行了测试，尽管它有点跳动，但效果很好，但是我们猜测其中一部分是在Netflix上，因为它们的导航在我们的Roku盒子上也很滞后。

There’s a ton of applications in the market, including a daily free (otherwise paid) app, but you can also allow installing unsanctioned apps by heading into Settings –> Device and turning on the option. You’ll have to manually install them, but it’s a way to get your favorite apps on the device even if Amazon doesn’t have them in your store. For instance, you can even install the Nook app this way.

市场上有大量的应用程序，包括每日免费(否则收费)的应用程序，但您也可以通过进入“设置”->“设备”并打开该选项来允许安装未经批准的应用程序。您必须手动安装它们，但这是在设备上获取您喜欢的应用程序的一种方法，即使Amazon在您的商店中没有它们也是如此。例如，您甚至可以通过这种方式安装Nook应用程序。

Note: you can’t go to the regular Android market in the browser, it simply will redirect you to Amazon’s app store . You’d have to get your hands on the install file otherwise in order to install the applications.

注意：您无法在浏览器中进入常规的Android市场，它只会将您重定向到Amazon的应用程序商店。否则，您必须动手安装文件才能安装应用程序。

Our guess is that in the very near future, almost every Android app that you can want will show up in the market. The only exception will be system tweakers and very low-level applications.

我们的猜测是，在不久的将来，几乎所有您想要的Android应用程序都会出现在市场上。唯一的例外是系统调整器和非常底层的应用程序。

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be testing out whether you can get Google apps on the device, and whether there’s any great hacks that you can do.

在接下来的几周内，我们将测试您是否可以在该设备上安装Google应用，以及是否可以进行任何出色的修改。

Final thoughts: It’s a rather nice tablet. Got any questions that we didn’t cover? Ask them in the comments.

最后的想法：这是一个相当不错的平板电脑。有没有我们未解决的问题？在评论中询问他们。