Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I just got my Kindle Fire today. I was so excited about it, what can be wrong with a $199 tablet right? Well apparently a lot... The bottom line is that this is a half baked product that is pretty much a front end for the Amazon store/content. Why do I need it then? I bought it for the ability to run apps and have a tablet, use a browser, email and so on, not just to be tied to Amazon. But hey, I could have still lived with that... The product is just half baked and "made on the cheap". The user interface is sluggish at best, opening content or apps is hard, tap on the icon and it sometimes open up and sometimes it "thinks" you were scrolling. Yes I have fat fingers but I gave the device to a friend and she had the same problem, it's just hard to use the device's touch screen. Security wise, this is a one click "buy whatever from the owner Amazon account and bill the owner credit card" device, how can you share it? The device also shows all your history, everything you bought content and other products on Amazon, so make sure there is nothing there you do not want someone to see when you hand out the device. Want to give your kid the device to play Angry Birds on? They can see everything you bought, no parental control, and they can choose to buy some more stuff too. Want to show it off to your boss? make sure you do not have any of those "How to perfect your interview skills" books you ordered on the devices carousel. Bottom line - DO NOT SHARE THIS DEVICE, there is no privacy at all. Apps - yes there is an app store and you can install apps, the app store is not as good as Apple's or Android market (I guess that will improve over time) but it appears as Apps are secondary entities in this device. The homepage when you turn this device on is all about a big carousel of latest content, including latest ran apps. Web browsing - it's just ok, not as super fast as hyped by Amazon, some websites are not fit well to the screen (although the "fit to page" option was enabled) and for some reason some sites let you zoom in while others refuse and stay at a small font "hard to read unless you have 20/20 vision" format. The screen itself feels smaller than I imagined, but I guess this is something you can know upfront when buying the device. Speakers are located on the device's left side (when in landscape mode) which means that when playing a video clip you only hear sound from the left side, yes you can use a headset but sometimes you might now want to. That's the list for now, after holding the device in my hands and playing with it, it's just a half baked device, good intention and an amazing price point, but it's not a good tablet nor is it a good e-reader. Mine is on the way back to Amazon while I am back reading my books on the old e-ink screen Kindle and doing my other stuff on my other Android/iOs devices. Disappointing indeed :-(