Amazon advertises the Fire HD 8 as being 30% faster than its previous incarnation. The low cost also means a somewhat laggy app experience. When companies cut corners to keep the cost of a tablet low, speaker quality is one of the first things to be sacrificed. Music, audiobooks, and other sounds lack presence and sound a little tinny. While the Kindle Fire HD 8’s display is adequate for devouring streaming video or a bit of reading, its dual speakers were another story. For comparison, Amazon’s current-generation, base model Kindle (2022) has a display resolution of 300 PPI. Its eight-inch 1,280 by 800, 189 PPI (pixels per inch) touchscreen display is clear enough that you won’t end up squinting at it after watching a couple of episodes of Reacher. While you can read books from your Amazon Kindle collection on the Fire HD 8, the tablet's display resolution doesn't make it a pleasurable experience.Ī device designed primarily for consumption should provide a great consumption experience. However, having to purchase extra storage to give your apps and content some breathing room increases the cost of owning this device. Amazon is no doubt aware of this as the Fire HD 8 comes equipped with a MicroSD expansion slot, which can handle MicroSD cards up to 1TB in size.
Considering the growing size of photos, videos, and application files, that’s not a lot of space. Your mileage may vary.Īdditionally, any of the most popular tablets released over the past few years have offered base models that come with 64GB of storage. I’m not a fan of seeing advertising on devices or in apps I’ve already paid for. Every time I turned the tablet on, my eye twitched a little.
That means no Gmail, no Google Docs, or many of the other popular apps Play Store users expect to see. Unless you’re comfortable with doing a bit of tinkering, you won’t be able to access the Google Play Store from this tablet.
KINDLE FIRE HD PLUS ANDROID
While the app store offers a respectable number of applications to download including favorites like Disney+, Microsoft 365, and Twitter, those familiar with Android from swiping and tapping away at it on their smartphone might find the Fire HD disappointing. The Amazon App Store comes pre-installed on this tablet as part of the company’s particular flavor of the operating system. The same thing that makes the Fire HD 8 great for some also makes it a lousy device for others.Īll of Amazon’s tablets employ a branched iteration of Android. No, I didn’t fall asleep at my keyboard and type the same thing twice. What we don’t like All Amazon, all of the time If you’re hip-deep in the corporate juggernaut’s content, the Fire HD 8 may serve you well. You can even use it to let Alexa into your life (although not everyone may see this as a plus). The Fire HD provides a relatively inexpensive portal to all of Amazon’s most popular services: Amazon Prime Video, Audible, Comixology, Amazon Photos, Kindle, Goodreads, Amazon Kids, and, of course, the company’s vast online shopping empire. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8 is a portal to all of the services that Amazon has to offer, including digital comics and graphic novels access via the Comixology app.
The Fire HD 8 is designed for content consumption and lightweight productivity tasks. If you spend five minutes with the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8, you’ll know that it’s not in the same league as the current generation iPad Mini or a top-shelf Android tablet like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S8.
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