Apple and Amazon are right when they praise their tablets and compare their screens, but we are talking about a partial truth because not everything that marketing people say is always true. iPad Mini has a bigger screen than Kindle Fire HD, in certain conditions it displays more things, but it has a lower resolution and fewer pixels per inch, and this affects it a lot. To compare the screens of the two tablets, those from iMore they did some short tests, not very scientific, which highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the tablets.
iPad Mini has a 7.9 inch screen, 1024 x 768 resolution, 163 pixels per inch and screen ratio 4:3, while Kindle Fire HD it has a 7-inch screen, 1280 x 800 resolution, 216 pixels per inch and 16:10 screen ratio. This difference gives the Kindle tablet a great advantage in portrait mode and the iPad Mini a great advantage in landscape mode. In Portrait mode the Kindle Fire HD should display more information on the screen, while in landscape mode the iPad tablet should do the same, but the image quality will obviously be lower.
The iPad tablets were designed to work excellently in landscape mode, in the case of the iPad Mini things do not change, as it has a resolution advantage over Android tablets, and in the case of surfing the web or using applications it will be superior to other tablets with a screen of 7 inches. The situation changes completely in portrait mode, where Android tablets have the superiority, but we must not forget that they have screens with more pixels per inch, so all images will be much clearer.
In the end, the iPad Mini is not totally outclassed by the competition, but it doesn't do great either.
