![]() ![]() ![]() Still not fast, but better than the included charger, which you'd most likely want to use for overnight charging. With the 15-watt, I was able to recharge it in under three hours. The included 5-watt charger took so long that I went and found a 15-watt charger. I only managed 10 or so hours while streaming video, but that's still very good. One of the highlights of the Fire HD 8 is the impressive battery life. You can expand that storage capacity up to 1 TB using the microSD card slot. The Fire HD 8 is available with either 32 GB or 64 GB of storage-the more the better, if you can afford it. Pixelation is still painfully visible in text, but no worse than any other tablet at this price. It's the sort of thing that would send David Lynch into fits, but it works well enough if you don't care that much about deep rich colors and solid blacks. That Amazon content lands on an 8-inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, which is … not great. Again though, it's fast enough to do what it's designed to do, which is deliver Amazon content. It gets the job done, but put it up against just about any other Android tablet on the market and it's going to lose. Considered on its own, let's charitably say that this is not a speedy tablet. In my experience using them side by side for tasks like browsing the web or playing video, you won't notice a huge difference. Amazon claims the new Fire HD 8 is 30 percent faster. The 2.0 GHz hexa-core processor is new, and in my testing was marginally faster than the previous version. I suggest wrapping your Fire HD 8 in a cover of some sort. That said, I don't recommend testing this feature yourself. ![]() I've dropped my old Fire HD 8 from about waist height (I'm around 6 feet tall) on a hardwood floor several times without doing any damage. Like the previous model, the all-plastic construction is surprisingly sturdy. ![]() The 2022 version looks identical to the previous model, but is a little thinner and lighter. It’s easier to see how the four models compare in the table below.Amazon has not messed much with the design of the Fire HD 8. They share the same 1.5GHz processor, same cameras, same 802.11ac Wi-Fi, and the same 8-hour battery life. The HD 8 is £40 cheaper with essentially the same specification and a choice of black, blue, tangerine and magenta colours. In fact, aside from the larger screen size and the option of 16- or 32GB of storage, you get very little extra with the Fire HD 10 – and it’s available in only black or white. Oddly, the 10.1in version has the same 1280×800 resolution as the 6- and 8in models, so the pixel density gets lower the more you spend. And you’ll struggle to find another tablet at this price with as good a screen. But the fact that the screen has good colours and viewing angles offsets this and means most people will be perfectly happy with it. For example, the £49 Fire has a low resolution of 1024×600 pixels. However, they’re built to a price and don’t rival more expensive tablets. It’s best to use the cameras only for video chats and not buy them hoping to take good photos or videos.Īll four have acceptable performance and good screens. None are exceptional, and the two cheapest models are sub-standard. This is a real advantage, especially on the £49 Fire which has around 5.5GB of usable storage out of the box.Īll four tablets have front and rear-facing cameras. If you want to you can buy the 7in model as a Kids Edition which has a better warranty and a year’s subscription for the Fire For Kids service that lets them access range of books, apps, games and videos for free.Īpart from the older Fire HD 6, all the new range have microSD card slots so you’re not stuck with a limited amount of storage as you were in the past. It’s a good system that we like for younger kids. If you’re thinking of buying a Fire for your child, then the Fire For Kids app is a great way to limit what they can and can’t see (such as no internet access) and you can set different time limits for reading and using apps / games. ![]()
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