How long is the battery life of the Kindle Fire?

) November 27th, 2011

I’m pretty sure my hubby is getting me a Kindle for Christmas, but I can’t decide if I want the regular Kindle or the Kindle Fire. My reason for this is: I know the regular Kindle has an extraordinarily long battery life, and I don’t know what kind of battery life the Fire has.

I’m assuming it’s considerably less, since it’s a color tablet instead of just the black and white reader. But it would be really neat to have the Kindle Fire if the battery lasts a decent amount of time. (I have a Pandigital tablet that has absolutely NO battery life, that’s why I’m skeptical of the Fire tablet.)

So… those of you who have already purchased a Kindle Fire, what do you think of the battery life?

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8 hours

Michael_Huntington (15994

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Just 8 hours, really? That sucks.

WillWorkForChocolate (23163

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Oh, yeah, definitely go with the e-ink version. My sister has the nook equivalent of the Kindle Fire, and the battery life is nothing compared to my e-ink Nook. Nothing more frustrating than finally getting some time to read and have the book go out.

JilltheTooth (19792

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UGH.

WillWorkForChocolate (23163

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argh. That will make the kindle fire totally useless to me. Thanks for the info though.

downtide (23815

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Eight hours is pretty decent for the Fire. The fire isn’t an eReader, it’s a full fledged low-end color android tablet with heavy media features that just happens to allow you to read eBooks. Powering all that hardware and graphics takes significantly more power than the Kindle/Kindle touch.

The eInk technology on the Kindles is very energy efficient and the text is of higher quality and resolution than you’d get on a tablet so it feels more like reading a book with less eye strain. The technology is still fairly young so eInk interfaces are a little bit slow and clunky, but when you only have to charge it once every month or two and are only reading pages of text anyway, it’s pretty acceptable.

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