![]() ![]() Where the Fire HD 8 shines is its stamina. Amazon’s Silk browser does a good job of keeping all but the most media-heavy websites feeling responsive and usable. Importantly, too, the HD 8 will get you from A to B in Fire OS without chugging too much, it copes fine with Netflix and BBC iPlayer streaming, and it’s a reasonably accomplished tool for browsing the web. Keep your sights low, though, and install only basic and puzzle-based games, and you’ll be okay. It’s not a particularly accomplished gaming device either, returning a sluggish average of 7.1fps in the GFXBench onscreen Manhattan test, which runs at the screen’s native resolution of 800 x 1,280. That’s not the fastest, not by a long shot, but menu navigation was reasonably smooth, and general navigation didn’t raise any red flags.īest tablets in 2018: The best tablets to buy this year In a serious case of “you get what you pay for” the Fire HD 8 scored 644 in the Geekbench 3 single-core test, and 1,854 in multi-core. ![]() it’s not particularly quick, as expected, and suffers from serious slowdown issues, but will serve you well for the most part. With zero change to its innards, the Amazon Fire HD 8 – unsurprisingly – performs near-identical to the budget tablet it supersedes. Amazon Fire HD 8 review: Performance and battery life This is the new Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, now with Alexa. This, the 2017 version, looks identical, comes with the same quad-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT8163 processor and 1.5GB of RAM, but there’s something a little extra up its sleeve. In its original incarnation, the Amazon Fire HD 8 was released at the back end of 2015, along with the Amazon Fire HD 10 and the 6in, £50 Fire. Oh, and it’ll still last for weeks between battery charges too.It’s the latter camp that the new Amazon Fire HD 8 falls into: an 8in tablet that costs just £80, that’s about as far from modern tablets such as the Apple iPad Pro 9.7 as it’s possible to get.Īmazon followers might feel like they’ve seen this product somewhere before, and they’d be right. Still, given the massive selection and rock bottom prices, this is hardly a chore. The price you pay? Being limited to buying books from Amazon. All your books live in the cloud, so you can delete them from your device if you run out of space and download them again any time. You can pay to get them switched off after you’ve bought one, so don’t feel you have to splash the cash right away.Īmazon really has set the benchmark for e-readers with the Kindle. ![]() You can quickly jump into Airplane mode and force a Wi-Fi sync now too – although I’ve never had a problem with my Kindles staying bang up to date.īest sellers and recommendations show up at the bottom of the home page, and unless you shell out an extra tenner on the Kindle without ‘Special Offers’, these’ll show up as screensavers too. It’s got double the RAM of the old one too, so it feels a lot nippier when turning pages or opening menus.Ī recent UI overhaul means you get a home screen filled with the books you’re reading, plus the ones on your wishlist. It might have cost you a whole lot less than those other Kindles, but this entry-level model is still running the same OS. That makes the Paperwhite my top pick for most people, but this new budget model is still great value for money. Neither has a significantly better screen, though. Going the whole hog on a super-slender Kindle Oasis will set you back an eye-watering £270, but the detachable screen cover will also double your battery life. The £170 Kindle Voyage has a slightly slicker design, but your cash is mostly going on light sensor that stops the backlight from scorching your retinas at night. Without those LEDs, the new Kindle is no easier to read in the dark than a regular book.īeyond the Paperwhite, you’re spending big money for diminishing returns. They give contrast a boost during the day, too, making your books just that little bit easier on the eyes. The £110 Paperwhite costs almost twice as much, but packs LEDs around the edge so you can read clearly in the dark. Speaking of which, how does it stack up to the rest of the range? That all depends on how much night time reading you’re planning on doing, as the £60 Kindle still isn’t self-lit. ![]()
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