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There's also this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=com....

Thanks for that. I had no idea the Fire lacked a hard volume button. I almost compulsively use the one on my iPad, as I find quantified increments far easier than sliding my fat finger over something my fat finger is blocking.

Not only that, but the soft volume controls aren't uniformly available. When you're watching a movie in Netflix, you have to stop the playback to adjust volume, but you can't hear the volume until you start playback again. Just painful.

Note: this experience may have been fixed, I haven't used my kindle fire for watching movies in months, for obvious reasons.

Its been fixed upstream by Netflix.... but why didn't you just change the firmware on your Fire to ICS like I did? Standardized soft vol avail everywhere.

Because not everyone wants to make up for Amazon's [or any other OEM] R&D failures by wasting hours of their time wiping out their software?

But won't you miss the benefits of amazon prime ?

I don't have Amazon Prime.