Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm an early adopter of anything by Amazon... Kindles, Echo, Fire TV... you name it... so I ordered this early and received it the very first day it was available. Sadly.... I am disappointed by it and will probably return it. For the following reasons that may or may not matter to you personally, but I find them extremely frustrating. The good: As promised by the pre-marketing, it seems to be a little faster than my current 8" Kindle Fire HDX... but not by much when I test them side by side. The screen is bigger, but if you notice in the Amazon comparison charts, the resolution isn't any better, it is just bigger... which I've found makes it quite a bit more cumbersome to hold one handed... which is how I normally read. There is a slot to upgrade the memory up to 128GB... this was a HUGE selling point for me and "may" be the only reason I decide to keep it. The Bad: As stated already... no improvement on resolution, just size. Cumbersome without much else to offer. Poor camera resolution... for no reason I can determine. Not as much "faster" as I'd been led to believe by the pre-marketing... and... here is the BIG ONE... The new interface is TERRIBLE! WHY did Amazon decide that they just HAD to mess with a convenient and easy-to-use user interface? (Think... the switch from the traditional MS Windows interface to the MS Windows VISTA fiasco... yep, that bad... or worse). I have no doubt that some manager talked everyone around the conference table into "upgrading" from the previous user interface for some reason that sounded sexy and cool... but like it or not, we (the users) use our kindles enough that we don't want (nor have the time) to relearn how to move around our (formidable) amount of Kindle content! Grrrrrr! I wish that User Interface "experts" could figure out that the more a person uses a system, the more they rely on that system remaining recognizable... new functionality is GREAT... but... new "looks" and "navigation" are best kept for brand new types of technology, and NOT for something that should be so easy to use that the interface isn't the focus... the content is. I doubt that this little rant will make any difference at all... but I'm hoping that, at the very least... Amazon won't "pull a Netflix" and change key usage principles in their other wonderful items just for the sake of change. It will only hurt them with their loyal, core customers. As one, last clarifying statement... I'm not knocking Amazon as a whole... I buy everything from Amazon and own nearly every Amazon-branded item that they sell... they are a fantastic company and I reward their "fantastic-ness" by funneling nearly all of my disposable income into their coffers.... But... that doesn't mean I am willing to pay over $200 for an "upgraded" kindle only to find it is a step back, rather than a step forward. Good luck... you may love this new kindle for all of the reasons I don't... but... fair warning... it isn't much of an upgrade... and in some ways it is a major step backwards. If I were you, I'd spend your money on the 8 inch Kindle Fire HDX... I love mine and it is worth every penny!