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It’s best for browsing the web, playing light games, reading, and listening to music. Don’t expect to easily play graphically-intense games, or to use this tablet as a productivity tablet. Games like Crossy Road performed well, though again with the occasional stutter or lag. The Fire’s interface is speedy and smooth, but we noticed stutters when scrolling through the Facebook app. It offers decent performance for the price, and it’s the same found on the 2016 Fire HD 8. It’s powered by the MediaTek MT8163V system-on-a-chip, which has a quad-core processor with 1.5GB of RAM. 5GHz lines are often more stable, and if you don’t have one at home, consider upgrading your router.

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The Fire HD 8 doesn’t have a lot of internal improvements over the 2016 model, but it does have dual-band Wi-Fi support - you’ll be able to connect to 2.5GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi bands, and it allows for faster internet download speeds. The black color option is a little boring in our opinion, so we recommend opting for the red, blue, or yellow variants. The build quality seems solid, even if the plastic on the back feels a little cheap, and the buttons offer nice, clicky feedback. Thankfully, the Fire HD 8 doesn’t feel fragile.

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Unsurprisingly, Amazon hasn’t updated its tablet to the reversible USB Type-C charging port standard that the fanciest Android smartphones and tablets now use. The headphone jack sits between the two, next to the Micro USB port, which is how you charge the Fire HD 8. The display seems to attract fingerprints, so make sure you carry around a microfiber cloth if that sort of thing bothers you.Īll the buttons are situated on the top edge of the tablet - the power button is on the right, and the volume rocker is on the left. We like the 8-inch size of the tablet, but it’s a little harder to hold in one hand than the 7-inch Fire. The display seems to attract fingerprints, so make sure you carry around a microfiber cloth if that sort of thing bothers you. There’s a high chance that your phone offers a higher, more crisp, resolution, so you may want to stick with it for videos. Upgrading the screen to a 1,080-pixel resolution would greatly help, but understandably it would also jack up the price of the tablet. It’s strange, considering Amazon has a whole section promoting its Prime Video service. Pixels are easily visible, text isn’t as sharp as we’d like, and overall it’s not a good tablet for video consumption. It offers decent viewing angles, and the colors aren’t over-saturated.īut it’s far from sharp. The Fire HD 8’s 1,280 x 800-pixel resolution screen isn’t eye-catching, but it’s just bright enough to be visible outside on a sunny day. Yep, for less than $100 you get all of Amazon’s services, access to Alexa, the voice assistant that can control your smart home, as well as a functional tablet that can perform most smartphone tasks adequately well. The 7-inch starts at just $50, and the HD 8, which we reviewed here, starts at just $80. Amazon has the most affordable tablets on the market. Price is a crucial factor for these tablets because it’s low. For 2017, the online retail giant has updated its Fire HD lineup with a refreshed Fire HD 8, Fire 7, and Fire 7 Kids Edition, along with a new Fire HD 8 Kids Edition. Fitbit Versa 3Īmazon’s Fire tablets aren’t as trendy or powerful as Apple’s popular iPads, but they’re far more affordable.

So with this library, along with great parental controls and support for up to four kid profiles, the Fire HD8 tops our list of best kids tablets, but do shop around on our hub if you’re in need of a bigger screen, more memory or a different ecosystem like iOS or Android.

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More than 20,000 movies, TV shows, eBooks, educational apps, games, and Audible audiobooks for your little ones to consume. On top of that, Amazon's FreeTime Unlimited subscription platform gives you access to a vast array of kid-friendly content. This starts with a decent spec list featuring a 2GHz Quad-core CPU and 2GB of RAM, along with 32GB of storage, 12-hour battery life, and a vibrant 8-inch IPS screen with 1280 x 800-pixel resolution.Īnd the well thought out hardware includes a kid-proof case, which is designed to not only protect against all kinds of drops and bumps, but also for ease of use thanks to that handy tablet stand. Every element of this tablet has been purposefully designed for any child to use to their heart’s content.

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