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Amazon Fire HD 7
16 GBGoogle Nexus 7
32 GB
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| Global Score | |
| 54.8 | 59.3 |
| Basic Information | |
| Amazon | |
| Android 4.4 | Android 5.1, 5.0, 4.4, 4.3, 4.2.2, 4.2.1, 4.2, 4.1.2, 4.1.1, 4.1 |
| 2014-10-02 | 2012-06-27 |
| 7.50 x 5.00 x 0.42 inches | 7.81 x 4.72 x 0.41 inches |
| 11.89 ounces | 11.99 ounces |
| Black, Blue, Pink, White and Yellow | -- |
| Scratch-Resistant Glass | Scratch-Resistant Glass |
| $ 195.00 | $ 110.00 |
| Display / Screen | |
| 7 inches | 7 inches |
| 800 x 1280 pixels | 1280 x 800 pixels |
| IPS LCD | IPS LCD |
| 216 pixels per inch | 216 pixels per inch |
| Capacitive, Multi-touch | Capacitive, Multi-touch |
| 7.7 | 7.6 |
| Performance | |
| -- | NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30L chipset |
| Quad-Core 1500 MHz processor | ARM Cortex-A9 (Quad-Core 1300 MHz) processor |
| 1 GB RAM | 1 GB (1333 MHz) RAM |
| Yes GPU | ULP GeForce (416 MHz) GPU |
| 8.37 | 8.46 |
| Storage | |
| 16 GB internal memory | 32 GB internal memory |
| No SD card slot | No SD card slot |
| 4.4 | 5.8 |
| Camera | |
| 2.00 MP + 0.30 MP | 1.20 MP |
| 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) video resolution | -- |
| 5.17 | 0.55 |
| Networks | |
| Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi |
| Mobile Hotspot | -- |
| -- | HSPA+ (4G), HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS and GSM |
| -- | SIM |
| 3 | 4 |
| Battery Life | |
| -- | 4325mAh Li-Polymer Battery |
| Removable Battery | Non-Removable Battery |
| -- | Wireless Charging |
| -- | 300 hours standby time |
| 1.36 | 6.24 |
| Other Features | |
| Bluetooth | Bluetooth 3.0 |
| -- | GPS |
| -- | NFC |
| Accelerometer and Gyroscope | Accelerometer, Compass, Gyroscope and Light Sensor |
Comparison review
The Google Nexus 7 has a general score of 59.3, which is just a bit better than the Amazon Fire HD 7's 54.8 global score. Both tablets in our current comparison use Android OS, but Google Nexus 7 has a newer 5.1 version while Amazon Fire HD 7 has Android 4.4, giving some nice extra features and performance enhancements. Even though the Google Nexus 7 is a lot older and a little bit heavier than Amazon Fire HD 7, it's construction is still a little bit thinner.
Amazon Fire HD 7 has a little more vivid display than Google Nexus 7. Both have the same count of pixels in each display inch, a display with the same size and an equal resolution of 1280 x 800px. Google Nexus 7 counts with a much bigger memory capacity for games and applications than Amazon Fire HD 7, because it has more internal storage.
Google Nexus 7 features a bit better CPU than Amazon Fire HD 7, and although they both have 1 GB of RAM and 4 processing cores, the Google Nexus 7 also has a graphics co-processor. Amazon Fire HD 7 captures way better photographs and videos than Google Nexus 7. Google Nexus 7 features a much longer battery duration than Amazon Fire HD 7.
Despite of being the best tablet of the ones we are comparing here, Google Nexus 7 is also a bargain compared to the other ones.
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