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Question about Amazon Kindle/Fire Tablets
Bigity
Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
Lubbock, TXRegistered User regular
Quick question about the Amazon tablets that run Fire OS. I found an article stating Office apps were added to them last year, but wanted to see if someone could confirm. We were going to pick one up for a young person (attending college) that our family 'adopted' - aka providing Christmas gifts to kids who wouldn't get any otherwise.
This young woman attends college in Durango, CO and requested an 'electronic tablet for school'. An iPad is out of our range, at least paired with the more mundane items she asked for.
I haven't seen a Kindle since they were only for digital books.
This young woman attends college in Durango, CO and requested an 'electronic tablet for school'. An iPad is out of our range, at least paired with the more mundane items she asked for.
I haven't seen a Kindle since they were only for digital books.
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The Fire Tablets are based on Android, though don't have the Google Play Store, just Amazon's App store. So the selection is more limited than you'd see on a Samsung tablet. But Microsoft does put their apps there.
https://www.howtogeek.com/232726/how-to-install-the-google-play-store-on-your-amazon-fire-tablet/
I have always gone with the cheapo Fire tablets, which are fairly weak for anything productivity-wise, so in your case I'd recommend one of the newer more expensive models if she's going to use it for Office even while it isn't seen as a particularly taxing software suite.
Appreciate it. Always nice to get some affirmation for something outside of a random web article.
You can load the Play store, but that's not a super great experience to give to someone who isn't super tech literate. There are some apps that don't work properly, even with the Play store installed. There are certain things hard coded into the FireOS that aren't compatible with the way some Google Play store apps work. 99% of apps will be fine, but all it takes is one that doesn't work to ruin the experience.