Kindle Fire HD/ Nexus 7

I forgot, Bing is better than Chrome. Try it, you will like it. Just my humble opinion.

I personally do not own either one, BUT, DW has both a Kindle, and just recently received an Apple as a gift. The Apple costs at least 3 times as much as the Kindle, and is turning out to be three times harder to learn.

Based on our experience, I can at least advise that the Kindle is user friendly.

The Nexus 7 will give you much more flexibility IMO. I am currently camping and just finished watching a movie via Netflix on my Nexus. With the Kindle, you are limited to use the Amazon apps, unless you Root it (workaround to get Google apps available on the Google market).

It is possible to install the Chrome Browser on the Kindle Fire HD but you have to jump thru a few hoops to do it (do a web search on side loading apps). The weakest link in the Kindle Fire HD is the fact that you only have access to the Kindle App store which is only a subset of the much larger Google Play Store.

The Kindle Fire HD comes with a charging cable that can be used to plug into USB ports on wall warts, laptops, etc... but some ports may not supply enough current to charge or may charge slowly. You can buy a charger that works with the cable for an extra $20. I would just figure in that extra cost.