There’s a web browser called Silk, email, maps, contacts, calendar, calculator, docs, weather and more. This tablet is loaded with apps and productivity tools. Put this also in the category of, ‘just fine for the price,’ and I don’t mean that as any kind of negative criticism. The sound gets loud and comes through just fine, but it’s certainly not going to give you the audio quality of an Amazon Echo or Echo Plus. You can play music via your Fire HD 8 tablet if you want to using Amazon Music. The audio quality is also good the tiny speakers get really loud and should be enough to annoy your whole row and everyone around you on the plane! Fortunately, the headphone jack means you shouldn’t have to. To take a screenshot on a Fire HD tablet, just press and hold the volume down button and the power button simultaneously. It’s a convenience feature, and a nice one to have at this price point. Again, it’s not intended to rival the photographic qualities of something like the Pixel 3 or the Samsung Note 9 or even the iPhone X. The photos it takes are pretty good enough to record some good memories, but the camera is lacking some of those high end features. The camera has some tweaks, though to be honest, you probably don’t want to use this device as your primary camera. The previous generation Fire HD 8 featured a VGA front-facing camera. Camera qualityįire HD 8 includes an improved front-facing 2MP camera with 720p video for HD video calling. This tablet is budget priced, so you’re not going to be able to get all the bells and whistles you might with something like an iPad Pro. The resolution isn’t what you’ll find on most cell phones or high end tablets today it’s not a retina display, but then again, it’s not really supposed to be. Even then I thought it could have used a bit more power. It’s not super bright I preferred to take it off adaptive brightness, which adjusts the display strength to the ambient light in the room, and I cranked it up to full. Finally the speaker has been improved, going from a single mono speaker to a dual Dolby Atmos-enabled speaker. Battery life has also increased from 8 to 12 hours. The CPU is still the same (a Quad-core 1.3 GHz) but where it had 1 GB of RAM before, now it’s got 1.5 GB of RAM. Storage previously was 8 or 16 GB (expandable by up to 256 GB) the new Amazon Fire HD 8 now has 16 or 32 GB (expandable by up to 400 GB). Storage has been increased, as has the RAM. The resolution has been increased, from 1024 x 600 (171 ppi) to 1280 x 800 (189 ppi) and putting it into HD territory. While the price has increased from the Fire 7, you’re getting a bit of a bigger device the previous Fire was 7″ to the new one’s 8″ size. There are some changes and improvements to this tablet from previous versions (none of which I’ve tried). What’s different about Amazon Fire HD 8 from previous versions? The two speakers are located on the side (or the bottom if you’re using it horizontally). The button placements are all along the top of the device a bit awkward for the volume rocker since it’s not oriented in the traditional up-down configuration, but it’s easy enough to adapt to. I’m in the middle of watching Bosch on Prime Video and it hooked me up with the last episode I was watching.Īfter that you can download other apps as you wish. Once it’s charged up you’ll log into your Amazon account and it automatically populates you previously purchased e-books and Prime videos. Getting this device set up couldn’t have been easier. The tablet runs Amazon Fire OS, an Android-based mobile operating system produced by Amazon for its Fire Phone and Kindle Fire range of tablets, Echo and Echo Dot, and other content delivery devices like Fire TV. shop the Amazon app, see your orders and more.download and use apps like InstagramFacebook.watch streaming TV shows and movies on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube & Netflix.With an 8″ display, and either 16 or 32 GB of memory (plus you can expand more) it lets you do a variety of things like:
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