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Amazon Silk: The Ultimate Guide

Gagan Kumar


Silk has a unique UI and it works much faster than any other browser


Published on Sep 29, 2011

Amazon the Kindle e-book reader manufacturer has now stepped in the tablet market with the launch of its first Gingerbread operated tablet ‘Kindle Fire’. This tablet is packed with a lot new features, which are lacking in other tablets available in the market.

The most amazing feature about the Amazon Kindle Fire that stands out is its unique user interface (UI) and the cloud-accelerated browser. The browser is referred as ‘split’, because it can split the data in two ends one is on the front end that you use on the device and second that it pushed to its server or Amazon computing cloud for faster processing. 

They named this browser Silk, because as the thread of a silk is invisible yet incredibly strong enough to make connection between two different thing, likewise, the Amazon computing cloud and Kindle Fire has a relation that together makes a wonderful web browser.

What is the best part about the Sill web browser? The web browser has a polished UI and it works incredibly faster than any other browser. This web browser is different from the browsers used in the desktop and the mobiles. The most interesting thing about how it works is that it keeps record of the files that you visit frequently. So, that you need not wait to receive the HTML file of the webpage, it can reload all the pages that are stored in its cloud computing user base.

The architecture of the UI is designed after a prolonged study. They claimed that in 90s the UI was very simple and even it was good for the user to understand and work on it. So, while designing the UI of this browser they focused on the simplicity of the UI.

Kindle is definitely user-friendly and its hot features will surely fire up the market.

 

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