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Hi: I'm thinking of getting a Kindle Fire. But I'm not seeing in the description that it has a keyboard. Does anyone know if you can type, say, emails, into it? I'm looking at this one:
I'm an Amazon.com affiliate, and have over a thousand ebooks (including three of my own) on my old Kindle (I have the very first model made, which I think paid $600 for), so I want to stick with the Kindle and not some other tablet. I have this notion that if I get this tablet I can shut off my ISP on my lap and turn my Smartphone off (which is a Walmart phone, which is great for internet, calendar and texting, but they never got the phone part to work, so I have a small throw-away cell phone).
So go directly to amazon.com and look at it. There is a photo on the front page there.
That's my point; I'm looking at all the descriptions and don't see anywhere, that it says there's a keyboard function. If you have one, or have held and played around with one, then please let me know, if you can.
It doesn't actually have a keyboard, but I'm wondering if it has a keyboard function, some screen, in other words, that serves as a keyboard when you bring it up. Though if it had that, you'd think it would show it. But I don't see it.
Yes, there is a keyboard function that comes up on the screen when you want to use it. It works like the screen on any other tablet. You touch the screen to enter each letter. Get a stylus. That makes it easier and keeps fingerprints off the screen. It seems odd at first to enter text by touching the screen, but before long it is quite natural and for tasks like email and brief forum comments, it is no problem at all. Some tablets have the option of adding an aftermarket physical keyboard, but I am not aware of that option with the Kindle Fire, but I haven't looked into that. The touch-screen keyboard works fine for my purposes.
The Kindle does not have a standard USB port (I believe very, very few tablets do), so there is nowhere to connect a standard flash drive. It does have two mini USB ports, so if there is a flash drive that connects via a min USB port, then that might work. As far as I know, the mini USB ports are for the power/charging cord and, I think, an HDMI cable, which I haven't used yet. I don't know anything about newer versions of flash drives and whether there is anything available that uses a mini USB port or even if those ports could be used for that. You could transfer the document electronically, though, for example via email.
To update: I got one of the Kindle Fires and I like it but can't send mail out ( it stays in my outbox), though no trouble receiving mail. And can't read pdf files, though I did download the program.
If anyone knows how to fix these problems, please let me know?
Also, I did not get, from the Amazon ad, that I would need wireless, so I had to set that up at the house. I just thought it would work anywhere, like my old Kindle did. Nope.
Regarding the email, check the email account settings on your Kindle Fire and make sure they match the settings on your PC/laptop/whatever other device you use for email. I have learned that when setting up email on a new device, the default port for outgoing mail is nearly always wrong. Fixing that to match the outgoing mail port on my other devices has always fixed the problem.
Can't you contact Amazon via the Mayday button like on the commercial? I'm sure they can address all of your issues.
Also, your Kindle probably used wi-fi. It just didn't work like magic.
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