“As Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet arrives on customers’ doorsteps, some users are complaining of problems with Wi-Fi functionality,” Electronista reports.
“The retailer’s Kindle forums include a long list of replies under the discussion ‘Kindle Fire cannot connect to Internet,'” Electronista reports. “Some users claim they cannot connect to Wi-Fi networks, while others can connect to a router but cannot access the Internet.”
Electronista reports, “Amazon has yet to publicly acknowledge problems with Wi-Fi connectivity.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: From what we can remember, even Kindle Fire’s multitudinous horrible reviews didn’t mention this rather debilitating problem for Amazon’s tiny-screen, sold-at-a-loss, cheap piece of crap.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Chris” for the heads up.]
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Coffee spitter of the day!!
Thank you MDN. 👏
I wonder if any of them caught fire? hmmmmmmmmmm
I have read that the 6.2 firmware update for the Fire fixes the problem for a lot of people, only one problem.. if you can’t connect to get it, it is prob a PITA to update.
Yep MDN its a POS… just like that other company that shipped a new phone that required a firmware update to fix battery life issues… wasn’t even a cheap phone from what I recall… my god… all these outfits releasing total CRAP to us poor consumers…
You shouldn’t have dude in your name ……
The phone and the Fire are not analogous events – the phone can get the upgrade (not needed for most users), but the Fire can’t.
The bottom line is both products had issues for some users that required a patch shortly after launch.
@Derek…agreed…massive difference in product quality as well. Lumping the 4S with the Fire together since they both had problems at launch, just doesn’t fit any kind of logic I’ve heard about, though sarcasm may be what I’m missing. Hard to tell sometimes on line (so says my gf). My Pops and his brother both tend to sarcasm, and his brother just loves to play ‘word police’ and comment on other people’s comments. He’s a bachelor and, well, pretty lonely guy, but he knows programming quite well.
You mean those battery life issues that mysteriously DIDN’T occur on my brand-new iPhone 4S? Hmmm?
I wasn’t thinking of you Paul, you are blessed in all product purchases.
I was thinking of the approx 400 pages of posts to apple’s support pages from people who mysteriously did experience a problem.
Ahhh— You’re using the objective data of asing “who’s sick” at the ER. idiot. I don’t know of any 4S with battery issues.
As Gary says, if you go by complaints on support forums, every product ever made by Apple or any other company is an unusable broken piece of crap. And yet customer satisfaction for the iPhone is off the charts. Go figure.
I don’t know what the magnitude of the Kindle Fire wi-fi connection problem is. Could be just a few users, could be a lot. But in any case comparing “I can’t connect to the internet” to “I have to charge my phone every day” is a little weak.
——RM
Well, as noted, MDN is fuelled 100% by schadenfreude which is itself, nurtured by not looking too carefully in one’s own back yard.
My 4s had better battery life after the first ios 5 update but it’s not stellar, that’s for sure – currently about 6 hours worked hard.
Notwithstanding, it’s a bloody good phone.
“… us poor consumers …”
You’re not a “poor consumer” Dude, you’re just a poor excuse. For anything.
You have.such a beautiful mind and yet it is incapable of an intelligent response.
Sad really
Do you have anything better to do then point fingers, Dude you have a history here of being a troll, trying out for assho** of the month now I see.
Hey, you should like change your name to Lube McFarland
heh heh… heh heh
—Bevis
He should just abide.
Here he goes again….. Oh dude your a dud.
Ouch!!!!
i like amazon’s model
i like it alot
Had the wifi problems with mom’s new Fire she bought at Sams on BF, but the update to OS 6.1 fixed it. I set the Fire right next to the router and it was able to keep the connection in order to get the OS update.
I think Apple should make an e-ink reader in order to piss Amazon off.
I wish.
A 7″ e-reader.
iBooks has had some effect on the kindle id imagine.
What truly disgusted me yesterday was an article on (CNET?) about how the forthcoming ASUS tablet- complete with keyboard, would be the Future of tablets and convince the author to dump his iPad. A tablet that turns into a laptop! Why didn’t you think of that, Apple? Maybe because they’re not moving backwards…
c/NET used to be awesome from the beginning. Now it’s like Tabloid News for tech. Zero professional journalist! Wait they are not even in that category. Just a bunch of bloggers who thinks they are real journalist.
True, I can’t even begin to express the extent of my disgust for their devolution from something to less than nothing.
As I’ve said before, 2012 is the year Apple’s competition gives up trying to go head-to-head with iPad, based on specs, features, and price. Instead, they will focus on niches that Apple intentionally ignores.
One is the low end, but Apple may not ignore it forever. Another is an tablet with some sort of built-in physical keyboard; Apple will ignore THAT forever.
I did notice what you said before, ken1w! Good call! : )
Well, given that I am still having odd wifi and battery draining issues on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 that I never experienced before iOS 5, I’m inclined to cut the Fire some slack, as cruddy as the latter product seems to be…
Apple and amazon should have hammered out a special arrangement for a kindle app on the iPad where amazon would get a fair cut and maybe apple just not take a cut of the sales. Then amazon would have ha no incentive to make a tablet and put consumers through kindle hell – also more iPads would be sold. Apple claims to not be interested in content as a major revenue source, but in the end, they must be, even if it riisks incentivizing the likes of amazon to work on a competing piece of hardware.
I use the Kindle app all the time on my iPad. I don’t think Amazon was hurt very much by having to remove the store button from the app.
Amazon Kindle Fire is a 5-star disaster.
Even though I’m a big Mac fanboy I have to cut Amazon some slack here. I don’t think it’s easy to get a device to work with millions of configurations of wifi. The problem usually arises when some routers or other devices don’t follow standards. But of course this might be due to bugs in the fire. The article says that users report problems, do we know exactly what those problems are? Allot of times when users have problems with a device or service it’s not a problem with the actually device or service that is causing the problems but rather something else.
I’m sure amazon will solve this eventually or we might find out that the users in question were incompetent.
Fire might not be the best tablet in the world but I really think we need another manufacturer to succeed in this space to get the tablet market to expand even further. An iPad only market might be good for Apple now but it makes me worried longer term.