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MORE: Amazon Alexa Guide: Tips, Tricks, and How-TosĪnd some of these free apps are pretty cool, like TextMe, which turns your tablet into a working smartphone over Wi-Fi. Amazon Underground includes popular "must-have" apps like Spotify, Candy Crush, Facebook and many more. Amazon offers a smaller number of apps (600,000) than Google Play (over 2.8 million), but the Fire HD 8's Amazon Underground feature attempts to remedy this with free apps, games and in-app purchases. Another cool feature is the X-Ray tab that shows up on the top left of the screen and contains IMDb information for all music, e-books and videos you purchase through Amazon Prime.Īmazon's Fire OS is a version of Android, but it has a completely different interface and app store. This makes for less boring commutes and errand runs.
The Advanced Streaming and Prediction technology makes recommendations on what content you'll want to look at next within Amazon's many media services, and there's an On Deck feature (for Prime members) that downloads Amazon Prime Video for off-line viewing, which is extremely helpful. Those wary about sharing a tablet with their children can monitor usage, restrict content and set access hours with the Fire HD 8's parental controls.įire OS is pretty intuitive when it comes to media consumption. Up to two adults and four children can be added to a single Fire tablet.
Each user has his or her own apps and content, so you don't have to worry about a relative reading your email or deleting your favorite game. The Fire HD 8 supports multiple user profiles at the same time, which is helpful if you need to share your tablet with family members. You can use the assistant to play your favorite music library, receive weather and news updates, get answers to questions, create lists, and control all sorts of Alexa-enabled smart-home gadgets. Once Alexa is enabled, you access it via the home button. The latest Amazon Fire 7 with Alexa turned in a run time of only 6:53, while the average tablet lasts 8:58Īmazon's digital assistant, Alexa, is the star of the Fire HD 8. The tablet lasted an impressive 10 hours and 58 minutes on the Laptop Mag battery test (continuous web surfing at 150 nits). The Fire HD 8 offers very good endurance. The Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius game played smoothly, with minimal stutter, and this was while I had 10 Silk browser tabs open in the background. But again, this is an $80 tablet we're talking about. That's better than last year's model, which earned a 5,975, and Amazon's 2017 Amazon Fire 7 score of 4,640, but it's nowhere near the showings by premium tablets like the Asus ZenPad 3S 10 (14124) or Apple iPad (28,399). Though Amazon's latest HD Fire tablet scores lower than its prior versions, the difference falls within the margin of error and performs at a decent pace.Īmazon's 8-inch tablet also turned in an underwhelming score of 6,015 on the Ice Storm Unlimited Graphics test. This was a surprising number, since last year's Fire HD 8 scored 1,929. The new Fire HD 8 scored 1,785 on the Geekbench 3 app, which measures overall performance. Plugging in earbuds resolved some of these faults. The BTS "WINGS" album was able to fill a medium-sized bedroom with decent reproduction, but there was a bit of distortion in the bass and vocals. With dual Dolby Atmos stereo speakers at each end of the tablet's left side, the Fire HD 8 produced reasonable volume. Again, last year's model scored higher, with 411 nits, but the HD 8 still performed better than the Fire 7 with Alexa (335), 2015's Amazon Fire Kids (296) and the tablet category average (365 nits). The Fire HD 8 also did well in our brightness test, emitting up to 380 nits. The Fire 7 with Alexa scored a 0.20, while 2015's Amazon Fire Kids Edition scored 1.36 and the average tablet is around 3.23. Last year's HD 8 scored a 0.9, but Amazon has consistently done better with color accuracy. However, the Fire HD 8 makes up what it lacks in reproduction with its color accuracy, scoring 0.15 on our Delta-E test (lower is better).
This isn't much next to what higher-end tablets like the Asus ZenPad 3S 10 (113) and Apple iPad (123) produce, but the Fire HD 8's visuals are decent for device that sells for a fraction of the price. For example, Disney's visually stunning Moana lost its lustrous aquamarine ocean and lush green foliage when I rewatched the movie.ĭespite having a muted display, the Fire HD 8's screen reproduced 79.4 percent of the sRGB color gamut, a result that's comparable to that of the new Fire 7 with Alexa. Unfortunately, colors appear dull even at maximum brightness. The Fashion Fund on Amazon Prime Video and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt on Netflix each offered clearer image quality compared to streaming from a browser. However, screening videos from premium streaming services seemed to go a lot smoother.
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