Critics fire reviews

Wired magazine has a somewhat critical review of the Kindle Fire:

The Fire is a fiendishly effective shopping portal in the guise of a 7-inch slate.

All of which leads us back to what the Fire can actually do as a day-in, day-out mobile workhorse. Is it tablet that people will grab again and again for web browsing, book and magazine reading, casual gaming, and more?
No. It’s not that kind of tablet.

http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/11/kindle-fire/

Endgadget is more positive, though:

While Amazon's own carousel of recently used items is slick and smooth, we had inconsistent results with …

http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/14/amazon-kindle-fire-review/