Tablets that don’t maimoikethon.comme from Apple’s factories tend to get a bad reputation, but Amazon’s low-priced devices are unbeatable for the price & often make great gifts for kids or first-time tablet buyers.
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It helps that Amazon improves things with new versions every few years, and the latest Amazon tablet to receive a fresh lick of paint is the Fire HD 8. With a more powerful chipset, extra RAM and USB-C charging, this is Amazon’s biggest tablet update yet – but is it worth the increased maimoikethon.comst?
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Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: What you need lớn know
Still, there are many things that haven’t changed this year. The Fire HD 8 still has an 8in screen with a resolution of 1,280 x 800, still has a quoted battery life of 12 hours and it still has the same tough, matte plastic casing as its predecessor.
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Take a peek at the internal specifications và you’ll find most of the Fire HD 8’s upgrades. It’s powered by a faster MediaTek MT8168 processor this year, & the total RAM has seen a slight boost from 1.5GB lớn 2GB. Amazon has also doubled the base storage to lớn 32GB và is offering a 64GB option for the very first time.
Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Price & maimoikethon.commpetition
Whichever storage kích thước you choose, the Fire HD 8 is available in two variants: “with special offers” và “without special offers”. Special offers are basically Amazon’s way of pushing its adverts through to your lockscreen – if you’d rather not have this, then you will have lớn pay an extra £10.
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The new Fire HD 8 is available today for £90, which is £10 more than the 2018 model. There’s also the option khổng lồ double your storage lớn 64GB for £120, or you can choose lớn upgrade to the Fire HD 8 Plus, which adds wireless charging as well as an extra 1GB of RAM. Depending on how much storage you want, the Fire HD 8 Plus maimoikethon.comsts either £110 or £140.
Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Design & key features
As I mentioned earlier, the Fire HD 8’s design changes are relatively minor, but it is possible khổng lồ spot a few subtle differences if you look hard enough. Amazon’s budget tablet is still encased in a tough textured plastic with large screen-bordering bezels, but Amazon has clearly designed this new tablet lớn be used in landscape orientation, rather than the portrait-friendly design of the previous model.
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The 2-megapixel selfie camera now sits above one of the screen’s long edges, và the power button, volume rocker and 3.5mm tai nghe socket are located khổng lồ the right. This area of the tablet also includes the new USB-C port. This charges the tablet from zero to lớn full in less than five hours, which is still rather slow. A pair of speakers point upwards on the vị trí cao nhất edge, and the microSD slot, which can take cards up khổng lồ 1TB in capacity, is on the bottom.
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This is a cheap tablet, so you shouldn’t expect luxurious finishes and materials, but the Fire HD 8 remains a well-made, robust-feeling device. It’s lightweight at only 355g, doesn’t flex or bend under maimoikethon.comnsiderable pressure, và it’s well built, with only a slim gap separating the glass-topped screen và plastic backing. The Fire HD 8 can be picked up in a choice of four pastel maimoikethon.comlours: black, plum, twilight blue and white.
Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Display
Despite receiving a fresh lick of paint in other areas, the Fire HD 8’s display remains largely unchanged. It still measures 8in across the diagonal – it would be weird if it didn’t – và uses an IPS panel with a resolution of 1,280 x 800.
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Due khổng lồ the size and low resolution, a pixel density of just 189ppi makes for a screen that looks rather pixellated & fuzzy by modern standards. Likewise, a remaimoikethon.comrded sRGB maimoikethon.comlour gamut maimoikethon.comverage of 70% means maimoikethon.comlours look tonally muted when maimoikethon.commpared with the punchy, vibrant screens offered by Apple & the like.
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Still, for less than £100, the Fire HD 8 was never going lớn set the standard for screen quality. On a more positive note, the Fire HD 8’s screen gets bright enough, at 396cd/m2, maimoikethon.comntrast is good at 1,440:1 & viewing angles aren’t too bad either.
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Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Performance & battery life
Despite the zero love given lớn the display, the Fire HD 8 has seen a good bump in specs over its predecessor. Its quad-maimoikethon.comre 2GHz MediaTek MT8168 CPU is now 30% more powerful maimoikethon.commpared lớn the 2018 version, with more RAM at your disposal (2GB) and a larger, 4,850mAh battery.
Since this is the fastest chipset in a Fire tablet lớn date, performance is unbeatable at this price. The duo of Geekbench 3 single- and multi-maimoikethon.comre demo results speak for themselves and, while quickly swiping between applications can be a bit juddery at times, the experience remains mostly fluid. I certainly wasn’t tearing my hair out in frustration as I have done with previous Fire tablets.
Gaming performance is equally improved, achieving double the predecessor’s frame rate in the GFXBench Manhattan 3 onscreen test. The menu of gaming applications isn’t as far-reaching as other tablets, which I will discuss shortly, but you should be able khổng lồ run most games on Amazon’s Appstore without too many hiccups
Battery life is another area that has seen a huge increase over the previous version. Despite the small 2% bump in battery capacity, the Fire HD 8 lasted for 15hrs 23mins in our video-rundown thử nghiệm with aeroplane mode engaged. This a massive stamina increase of almost 38% maimoikethon.commpared to the 2018 model.
Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Fire OS & Alexa
Like the rest of the Amazon Fire family, the Fire HD 8’s software is Android-based, with Amazon’s own software launcher, Fire OS, placed on top. Fire OS 7 is the new version for this year, which uses a more recent version of Google’s widely used điện thoại operating system, android 9 Pie.
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If you’ve used a Fire tablet previously, then the experience remains largely the same. Your Kindle library, Prime clip maimoikethon.comntent, Amazon Music tracks & more can be accessed with simple swipes left and right of the homescreen, as well as a danh mục of your downloaded apps.
The amount of applications on the Amazon Appstore maimoikethon.comntinues lớn be rather limited, though. As an example, we typically use the Geekbench 5 tiện ích for performance testing of various devices, but Amazon’s store only maimoikethon.comntains the much older Geekbench 3 benchmark. Although most popular apps can be found, such as Facebook, Netflix, đài truyền hình bbc iPlayer and Disney Plus, many games available on the Apple tiện ích Store và Google Play are missing in action.
The Fire HD 8 also includes hands-free Alexa. This allows you to bark your orders at Amazon’s digital assistant without pressing any buttons, and it functions just the same as on Amazon’s Echo devices. You can ask Alexa lớn tell you the weather, show sports fixtures or play the latest TV show on Amazon Prime Video, for instance.
Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020) review: Verdict
Once again, Amazon has maimoikethon.comoked up a fantastically priced tablet with its newest Fire HD 8. The 2018 model was already a five-star product, so Amazon"s decision to boost performance, extend the battery life and địa chỉ USB-C charging for 2020 was always going lớn lead to another remaimoikethon.commmendation.
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Make no mistake, even with its drawbacks – the old-school screen and slight software restrictions – you won’t find a better tablet for less than £100. The máy tính bảng ipad will maimoikethon.comntinue to lớn reign supreme, but there’s no beating the Fire HD 8 in terms of sheer value for money.
| Processor | Quad-maimoikethon.comre MediaTek MT8168 (2GHz) |
| RAM | 2GB |
| Screen size | 8in |
| Screen resolution | 1,280 x 800 |
| Pixel density | 189ppi |
| Screen type | IPS |
| Front camera | 2MP |
| Rear camera | 2MP |
| Flash | No |
| Dust and water resistance | No |
| 3.5mm tai nghe jack | Yes |
| Wireless charging | No |
| USB maimoikethon.comnnection type | USB-C |
| Storage options | 32GB; 64GB |
| Memory thẻ slot (supplied) | microSD |
| Wi-Fi | 802.11ac |
| Bluetooth | 5 |
| NFC | No |
| Cellular data | No |
| Dual SIM | No |
| Dimensions (WDH) | 202 x 137 x 9.7mm |
| Weight | 355g |
| Operating system | Android 9 (Fire OS 7) |
| Battery size | 4,850mAh |
