The original Kindle Fire is one of those devices that keeps amazing me. Now after some three years with it, it’s still going strong as my son’s youtube movie platform, streaming through my phone wifi hotspot in the car. This device has been dropped, drowned, overheated, deep cycled and whatever else you can throw at a consumer device. But it has never failed us. You plug it in to charge and it just does what it was meant to do. As a first generation product it was amazingly open and I never bothered to set it up as a true Amazon device. I just used it as a cheap Android platform. And it still works well. Compared against the other shiny offerings in that space of course its glory has faded, but that doesn’t take away from it’s usability. I’m still a happy customer, not something I can say about the Asus Nexus 7 (which died after four months). I also own an original iPad 1, an iPad Air, an iPad mini, a Galaxy TAB and a MacBook Air 11″. The Fire has aged well.