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The Fire was Amazon’s first tablet, and it's still available some five years later. This means you have a good range of prices, sizes, screen resolutions, and processing power to choose from.

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Dimensions: 8.4” x 5” x 0.4” (214 x 128 x 9.The full lineup as of June 2016 includes the standard Fire tablet, Fire HD tablets with 6, 8, and 10-inch displays, and the Fire HDX 8.9-plus a few Kids Editions of the Fire and Fire HD.VGA front-facing camera 2 MP rear-facing HD camera.MicroSD card slot for cards up to 256GB.

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Plus Fire tablets are open to sideloading apps, ebooks, and other content like videos and MP3s so they’re useful for non-Amazon content too, but if you don’t want to use Amazon’s services and content at all then getting a Fire tablet doesn’t make much sense. All that stuff is easily accessible right from the homescreen, and it’s easy to download free Prime content, like videos, music, ebooks, and audiobooks. You don’t have much control over the homescreen, and there are no widgets and customization options are limited.īut if you have Amazon Prime or own a lot of Amazon’s digital content, a device like the Fire HD 8 makes a lot of sense.

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You can get some crossover by installing the Google Play Store and other Google apps, but at the core of the software it’s still a lot different than a typical Android device.

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The software is based on Android 5.1.1 but with Amazon’s custom Fire OS 5 skin it’s kind of its own separate species. The software on the Fire HD 8 is heavily integrated with Amazon’s content and services, of course. It also has the Blue Shade feature to filter blue light, along with an auto brightness sensor, which I find very distracting but at least it can be turned off. I do like how the brightness goes dimmer than most tablets at the lowest level so it’s more comfortable to read at night. The screen isn’t as bright as other tablets I’ve owned, and it’s not even as bright as the $49 Fire, but for indoors use it’s more than adequate. It plays HD videos and they look good, but small text can be rough and pixelated at times. It’s not as bright and vibrant as an iPad or Samsung screen, but it’s good enough not to be a problem in most situations. It’s also a half millimeter thicker, so it’s pretty large overall.Īs far as the screen, it’s not great but it’s not bad either. This model is even 1 ounce heavier than the previous version (I misspoke in the video I was thinking of the 7-inch Fire). At 13 ounces it’s about 20%-25% heavier than other 8-inch tablets like the iPad Mini and Galaxy Tabs. The main downside is it’s fairly heavy for a tablet its size. The back has kind of a cheap plastic feel to it but the Fire HD 8 is a very solid-feeling tablet that seems like it could handle a drop without much of a problem. It’s not great by any means, but it’s good enough overall to be useful and functional. It’s hard to complain about the amount of features it offers when similar tablets sell for 2 to 5 times as much.

Overall the $79 Fire HD 8 is a solid tablet for the price. I still like using 10-inch tablets better but if my Lenovo Tab 2 10 died I could get along with using the Fire HD 8 as my main tablet for awhile. The nicer screen and added speed help make it quite a bit more enjoyable to use than the $49 Fire.

Less customizable than regular Android tablets, no widgets, no custom home screens, no custom lockscreen, etc.Īt first I was rather put off by the weight of the Fire HD 8, but you get used to it after awhile.

It’s thicker and heavier than a typical 8-inch tablet.

Google Apps can easily be installed in about 5 minutes for added functionality and compatibility.

Tons of storage space with the 256GB microSD card capacity.

Runs faster and smoother than $49 Fire tablet.

There’s also a Kids Edition starting at $129. Both cost $15 more to remove the lockscreen ads. This new Fire HD 8 is the 3rd generation HD 8, the 7th generation Fire tablet overall, but it’s 95% the same as the previous HD 8, so there’s no real reason to upgrade.Īmazon dropped the price of the new Fire HD 8 down to $79 for the 16GB model and $109 for the 32 GB version. Here’s the $49 Fire vs Fire HD 8 comparison review for more details and a video.

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