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Amazon Kindle Fire vs LG Spectrum

General Info

Manufacturer
Amazon LG
Announced
September 2011 January 2012
Status
Available - November 2011 Available - January 2012
Colors
Black Black
Form Factor
Candybar Candybar
Dimension
190 x 120 x 11.4 mm
(7.48 x 4.72 x 0.45 in)
135.4 x 68.8 x 10.4 mm
(5.33 x 2.71 x 0.41 in)
Weight
413 g (14.57 oz) 141.5 g (4.97.0.18 oz)
2G Network
N/A CDMA 800 / 1900
3G Network
N/A CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
4G Network
- LTE 700
Messaging
, Push Mail, EMail, IM SMS, MMS, EMail, IM

Display

Type
IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Colors
16M colors 16M colors
Size
7.0 inches [Similar] 4.5 inches [Similar]
Resolution
1024 x 600 pixels (170 ppi) 720 x 1280 pixels (326 ppi) [Similar]
Screen-to-Body Ratio
60.16% 60.06%
Multi-Touch

Hardware and OS

OS
Android OS, v2.3 (customized) Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
Processor
Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A9, TI OMAP 4430 [Similar] Dual-core 1.5 GHz Scorpion, Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon [Similar]
GPU
PowerVR SGX540 [Similar] Adreno 220 [Similar]
RAM
512 MB [Browse Similar] 1 GB [Browse Similar]
Internal Memory
8 GB storage 4 GB storage
External Memory
No microSD, up to 32GB, 16GB included

Camera

Rear Camera
N/A [Similar] 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels [Similar]
Flash
N/A LED flash
Features
N/A Auto focus, Geo-tagging, Face Detection, Image Stabilization
Video
N/A Yes, 1080p@30fps, LED video light
Front Camera
N/A [Similar] Yes, 1.3 MP [Similar]

Multimedia

3.5mm Jack
Radio
Stereo FM radio No
Games
Yes + Downloadable Yes
Loud Speaker

Connectivity and Data Rate

GPRS
No No
Edge
No No
3G
No Rev. A, up to 3.1 Mbps, LTE
Bluetooth
No Yes, v3.0 with A2DP, EDR
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
USB
Yes Yes, microUSB (MHL) v2.0
GPS
No Yes, with A-GPS support
Browser
HTML (Amazon Silk) WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, Adobe Flash

User Memory

Internal
8GB storage, 512 MB RAM 4 GB storage, 1 GB RAM
Expandable Storage
No microSD, up to 32GB, 16GB included

Sensors

Fingerprint
Proximity Sensor
Accelerometer Sensor
NFC

Battery

Type
Non-removable Li-Ion Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion
Capacity
4400 mAh 1830 mAh
Stand by
- Up to 348 h
Talk Time
- Up to 8 h 20 min
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