I have a Kindle Fire and I love it. I can watch movies or read a book, magazine in full color. You can check your email, browse the internet and post on FR like I’m doing right now. It’s easy to use. The downsides, you can’t stream video to your TV with it. You have to buy your ebooks and video content through Amazon. For the price, it’s a good choice.
You can with the new Kindle Fire HD. It has a mini-hdmi port. An iPad can't do that.
Yep, that's the downside right there, you're limited to Amazon. I've come to think it's just a matter of consumer education. I have many, many friends with the Kindle Fire, and I've found that none of them realize that with a standard Android tablet, you can buy and read Kindle ebooks, Nookbooks, Google books, to name the three largest. I have access to everything save iBooks.
Which brings to my big Apple gripe. iPad has Kindle and Nook support as well, but no purchasing within the apps. It's severely crippled.
The kindle fire hd has a mini hdmi socket so you hook it up directly to your TV for playing movies. I have a Fire . Now I have to hook up my laptop to TV to watch the streaming video TV/movies. i’M going to buy a 7” Fire Hd after Christmas . I’ll wait a few months for them to patch the bugs. The iPad is too big for comfortable use IMHO .