Review: Great!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 27, 2013
First off, do you need this? Technically no. Using a micro USB charger base that you might already have DOES work to charge your Kindle Fire HD. It took six hours to charge from 20% to fully charge WITHOUT the PowerFast. WITH the PowerFast adaptor, it took three hours. This is why I wanted to buy this. Is it worth 20 bucks. This is your call. If you are okay with your Fire taking that long to recharge, then fine. I think it is worth the ten bucks if you buy this with your Kindle.I bought mine used for 12 dollars and I have no complaints. Yeah, I didn't really need to buy this but I did not like how long it took to charge. With USB from a computer it will take even longer.I can understand why Amazon might not have included this. I had no less than six of the adapter's lying around. I went 4 weeks without a PowerFast, but decided I needed a faster recharge time to enjoy all that Prime content (which I am renewing).I hope that this review helps you out in making a decision on rather to get this or not. I don't think Amazon really set out to gouge  a customer for not including this with the Fire. You don't really need it because you probably have an adapter you use for your cell phone or other electronic device. I also don't think they expected someone to actually charge the Fire through a computer. Ouch! that is too painful to think about due to the time it would take.It was a fairly smart business decision to not include this. They do give a discount upon ordering the fire to get this at half price. They do state the charging times when using the the PowerFast because this they can be sure of. I have used an adapter that charged a little slower, but when I switched to one for a cell phone, I got the charge times mentioned above. Please beware of this and your mileage may vary using an adapter other than the PowerFast.