The Kindle Fire HDX is magnificently focused on content. When critics describe other tablets as "content focused," the term is intended to be slightly demeaning, as though the device were good for little more than turning pages and watching videos. When applied to the HDX, however, the term is indicative of a design that targets a specific kind of tablet user and is eager to make them very, very happy.
Available in big (8.9-inch) and little (7-inch) editions, Amazon's tablet runs a world-class mobile operating system based on Android 4.2.2. Okay, technically, Amazon calls the OS "FireOS 3.0" and the canonical source of Android apps for the Fire is Amazon's own app store, not Google Play. But unlike the mobile operating systems of certain other Seattle-area tech giants I could name, Amazon's has a good, if not epic, collection of games and productivity apps.
The Kindle Fire HDX comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch models.
The company has also beefed up the Fire's enterprise-sturdiness with immediate or imminent support for remote device management, Kerberos authentication, native VPN, and other goodies of extreme interest to IT departments. The Silk Web browser is certainly adequate, and the mail client (derived from Android's) is as good as anything you'll find on any other tablet.
Duly noted. But all that stuff misses the point of the Fire HDX, which is to provide the best tablet for consuming books, music, and video.
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