[DiabloD3]

The only thing that killed the Fire for me (and sadly I now own one, got it as a gift), is they reneged on their 1 year of Amazon Prime free deal. Now, you only get a month.

Screw that, the tablet is next to useless without Prime unless you like buying movies/tv shows that are DRMed up.

Also, why the hell does it have stereo speakers that are only on the left side of the device in landscape orientation? What use is stereo in portrait?

And on top of that, mine was shipped from Amazon with a defective LCD and now I have to deal with that.

Honestly, I am not impressed.

[bethling]

When did Amazon ever claim to offer one year? The initial announcement of it was one month of free prime (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/09/amazon/).

If your LCD is defective, contact Amazon and they will take care of it - that's what the warranty is for :)

[DiabloD3]

Yes, I have contacted Amazon. However, the device does not look like it was damaged in shipping, it looks like it is a manufacturing error.

Amazon is not gaining any points from this, at any rate.

[DiabloD3]

To those saying Amazon initially announced one month: no, this is what they switched it to when it was finally available for purchase, after already having told every tech site that when it launched it would come with a year.

Some websites out there that contain historical information still reference it, so Google for it and look around.

I feel that it is a bait and switch. Even if the news did not originate from Amazon or Amazon was misquoted, Amazon did nothing to correct these sites and has profited it,

[jonknee]

Amazon certainly never promised a year of Prime.