A low price is earning Amazon's Kindle Fire a lot of press. We take a fine-tooth comb to this new tablet and turn up some surprising results. While there's a lot to like, there are also plenty of quirks. We go over the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Display Performance Examined: Very Bright, So-So Gamut
The Kindle Fire's 7" LG IPS panel offers up excellent brightness close to 450 nits, but gamut performance is fairly low, at 48% of the AdobeRGB 1998 spec.
At 6900 K, color temperature is close to the standard 6500 K. However, many colors appear dull due to a relatively low gamma. For background information on our benchmarks, see Appendix A.
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