One thing about a Kindle Fire is that Amazon is really awfully good about returns. The "not really Android" issues will bite you if you are trying to explain to her how to use it over the phone and you don't have a similar device. Since it is positioned as an eBook reader, you have a sort of sliding row of icons that includes both books and apps, and it sucks if you have a lot of them. The main screen is a little weird but would probably be teachable. That might not be an issue if it is being used as a dedicated Skype device. I eventually got very, very tired of "a Kindle Fire as my tablet" because of innumerable irritations with it not really being Android-it's a mutated version-and having its own Amazon app store. On the one hand, it was generally a high-quality device, the price really was a bargain in the sense of "half as good as an iPad for a quarter of the price." I can't speak to particulars, but nothing about the one I had was a piece of crap, the camera was OK, the speakers were OK, and so on. I had a "Kindle Fire 8.9 HD" (one of the big ones no longer available but I see a Kindle Fire HD 10 for $149. Click one of the icons in the drawer in the bottom right corner.I am not sure about how good a Kindle Fire is for Skype, that is I didn't personally use regularly for Skype. Here's how to enable the Beta channel on a Chromebook to get Android apps and the Google Play Store:ġ. As long as you don't demand peak performance - and what Chromebook user does? - this is a beta test worth trying out. The popular gaming title Asphalt 8 ran a little choppy but was still playable, while the less demanding, but fun PinOut pinball game showed no such lag. Naturally the best performance came on laptops running on the stable channel, such as the Google Pixelbook and Samsung Chromebook Pro, where titles has small hiccups, but nothing too shoddy.īack when we had to put an Acer Chromebook R13 on the beta channel to access the Google Play Store, it ran games and titles with slight choppiness but nothing too bad.
We've seen varying degrees of stability when trying out Android apps on different devices. Chromebooks featuring Android apps on the Beta Channel:Īcer Chromebook 11 (C730 / CB3-111 / C730E / CB3-131) Lenovo ThinkPad 11e Yoga Chromebook (Gen 3) Lenovo Thinkpad 11e Yoga Chromebook (Gen 4) Chromebooks featuring Android apps on the Stable Channel:
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