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The Recipe Box - Your Kitchen, Your Recipes

Food & Drink and Lifestyle

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Create, display, and manage your very own recipes with one of the best loved recipe managers in the...

Kevin Wilson (179 KP) rated Amazon Fire TV Stick in Tech

Aug 16, 2018

Amazon Fire TV Stick

TV & Video > Streaming Media Players

8.2

(61 Ratings)

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Perfect if you have an amazing prime subscription (3 more)

Can sideload many apps not in store

Good price, there are often discounts if you look around

Easy to use remote and the device itself is easy

OS can feel clunky and slow at times (1 more)

Lack of ports

Great for the price

I have had this device for a while now and it's a decent little piece of tech. I say little because it is.

It's portable and is just a dongle that plugs into your HDMI port. It has 1 port for the plug and that's it and that's where I found myself a little disappointed almost immediately. There are no usb ports whatsoever. If you want usb your going to have to find an accessory somewhere to add them. This means no external hard drive, no mouse or keyboard and I was disappointed in that considering the stick has very small storage space.

The stick uses Amazon's fire OS and if you don't have Amazon prime the home screen will be just pointless as it advertises all the movies and TV you can watch through it. I don't have a subscription so it all just felt in the way. I'd have loved the Android TV OS more which is a lot more snappier but can't blame Amazon for using their own. It's just a shame their OS feels clunk and slow and times when trying to navigate.

This has all the apps you need for your streaming wether it be Netflix or prime. However I didn't see a good YouTube app on the Amazon store which was weird. But if you download the downloader app you can sideload different apps not in the store like Kodi.

The remote feels good. It's Bluetooth so doesn't need to be pointed at the device. It is easy to use, it's simple and I have the 2nd gen which includes voice control but without prime I find no use for this.

I do complain about the clunkiness of the OS and I've had a few apps restart but streaming feels smooth. For the money which I paid about £25 for in a sale, i can't really argue. This isn't the best device you can get. In no way does it compete with a device like Nvidia Shield but it is worth getting if you just want a couple of simple apps to stream. I basically mainly use 1 which makes the whole thing worthwhile.

If you want a capable device for good price then I can recommend this. Don't expect the greatest thing ever. There are loads of better devices out there but if you get this cheap in a sale then pick it up especially if your not too bothered about 4k.