Is the Fire stable? The demo at Target wasn't.

[Doppel]

I just came upon a demo of the Fire at Target an hour back. I moved the carousel around a bit, and then clicked "apps" at the top right. I waited a moment staring at a black screen, then a message that it was not responding and I could either force close or wait. I force closed. I then returned to the carousel and found cut the rope. The game loaded, and then on the first screen a creature in a box, looking like I was to tap it to begin the game. I did this, saw black screen again and around 10 seconds later that cut the rope wasn't responding and I could either force close or wait.

I certainly hope this is only because it was "Emma's" tablet; i.e. somebody (Emma, I imagine) had named the device hers. Maybe a bunch of other people have f**ked around with it enough that it was unstable (?).

 

[Bateluer]

I certainly hope this is only because it was "Emma's" tablet; i.e. somebody (Emma, I imagine) had named the device hers. Maybe a bunch of other people have f**ked around with it enough that it was unstable (?).

I've seen this before on display models for other tablets. When hundreds of people a day play with them, install apps, uninstall apps, start dozens of apps and never kill them, install task killers with autokills, etc . . . the floor models can be really hosed sometimes.

Seems like every time I play with the HC tablets at my local BBs, some idiot has installed ATK with a blanket autokill on everything. I uninstall it every time.

 

[shortylickens]

Mine was quite good. Display models have both newbs and nerds fucking with them all the time. Cant trust them.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I've used mine for at least 15 hours so far without any crashes -- music, Netflix, reader, browser, Bejeweled 2 (was the free app of the day).

 

[Puddle Jumper]

The display model I played with was surprisingly good, the UI was much smoother than the reviews led me to believe.

 

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

The one I have is very stable.

 

[poofyhairguy]

The one I have for my mom is stable. The interface can stutter at times (and the browser sucks) but I haven't had any crashes.

 

[thescreensavers]

I played with my friends, its defiantly a decent table for 200 bucks

 

[zerocool84]

My brother's is very stable, just have to get use to the scrolling.

 

[Doppel]

Good posts, obviously we can just blame this one on Emma 🙂

 

[WelshBloke]

I played with my friends, its defiantly a decent table for 200 bucks

I hate it when my spell check does that as well.😛

 

[fumanstan0]

No major issues with mine since release day, although there's been a couple app crashes.

 

[Pliablemoose]

None of the reviews I've read suggest any stability problems, I think the closest to that was on the launch, all but one of the presenters during the "hands on" part of it were very reluctant to let attendees do anything with the devices since they weren't completely finished and they didn't want any bad experiences like crashes to mar the intro...

Who knows what that poor demo unit has been through.