![]() ![]() However, Amazon uses the home pages to offer up its content in tabs, so you can swipe over to video, books, music and so on, including shopping. If you're an Android user then you'll find the experience easy enough to master, with the same basic navigation. ![]() The tablet itself runs on Amazon's forked version of Google's Android operating system. That means Amazon Music, Amazon Video and Kindle Books are first and foremost, with other apps and services coming from Amazon's Appstore. The Fire HD 8 is Amazon's tablet, so it's no surprise to find it's completely integrated with the Amazon ecosystem. That then means you can dock the tablet on the stand and it will charge - as well as offering a whole range of new features we'll talk about below. This is an optional accessory that gives you a charging stand for the Fire tablet, along with a case that enables wireless charging. There is some respite from this, however, with the availability of the Show Mode Charging Dock. Again, this slides into the space between the Fire 7 and Fire HD 10 tablets in terms of specification. Amazon Fire HD 8 review: Hardware and performanceĪmazon doesn't go to town telling us the suppliers of the hardware in its tablets, so you just have to accept that it's a quad-core chipset supported by 1.5GB RAM. If you do put it side-by-side with an iPad the admittedly, it looks weak.Īs it is, the Fire HD 8 is responsive to the touch and acquits itself perfectly well when it comes to playing games or streaming videos when you're laying in bed, which is what you probably why you want to buy this tablet. If you want a better display, or you're particular about display perfection, then you'll need to cough up a couple hundred more. Although the Fire HD 8 made improvements in the display compared to the previous version of this tablet, it still isn't the brightest, so can struggle to deal with reflections in bright conditions, and its colours aren't as punchy as you'll get from the best out there.īut let's put that in context: this is an £80 tablet that delivers perfectly acceptable visuals at that price. This time is higher than the category average of 10 minutes and 57 seconds.It presents some other weaknesses though. Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) battery lifeĪmazon declared that the Fire HD 8 tablet can offer up to 12 hours of battery life, but on our Laptop Mag Battery Test (continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness), the Amazon tablet lasted a whopping 13 hours and 49 minutes. The Lenovo Tab 4 10 Plus and the Huawei Media M5 Lite netted scores of 4,097 and 3,705, respectively. On the Geekbench 4 overall performance test, the Fire HD 8 tablet earned a middling score of 2,437, which is far lower than the category average of 7,901. I was surprised to see that there was no stuttering or lagging while perusing through all the apps. In addition to those 10 apps, I pulled up a few more apps, such as Amazon Shopping and Newsstand, and the load time was only negligibly longer than usual. Except for taking a split second to load, I didn’t experience a system slowdown. I then opened the Silk browser and launched 11 tabs, including a 1080p YouTube video. I tested the Fire HD 8’s multitasking muscle by running 10 apps in the background.
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