Amazon's Fire HD 10 tablet serves up access to all the Amazon content you could possibly want, but its clunky form factor, subpar screen, and higher price place it a step behind
the smaller Fire HD...
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 shares the same design as
the smaller Fire HD: both are well made with a solid construction, so feel like good - quality devices, even at their competitive prices.
So, if you're looking for a good tablet for your kids, keep in mind that
the smaller Fire HD tablets are easier to handle.
Not exact matches
If there's a little more room in your budget, you may want to consider the
Fire's slightly older, slightly
smaller sibling, the $ 100
Fire HD 6.
That's slightly larger than the 7 - inch display on the Kindle
Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7, but noticeably
smaller than the 9.7 - inch display on the full - sized iPad.
As a long time Kindle e-reader enthusiast, I believe that the Kindle
Fire HD have come of age to be a worthy
small tablet that can supplement and occasionally substitute for a laptop rather than just being a media consumption unit.
Attachments show up as
small icons at the top of an email; we easily opened attachments such as JPEGs, PDFs and TXT files, but the
Fire HD had trouble opening a docx file.
Like the
smaller 7 - inch
Fire HD, the 8.9 - inch version is designed to showcase Amazon content but this slate does full
HD at 1920 x 1080 pixels.
Amazon released a better - specced Kindle
Fire HD last September and Apple belatedly entered the
small tablet space with the iPad mini a month later.
If these features are important to you, which they are likely to be if you have
small children then the
Fire HD Kids Edition will be better value for money.
It brings to a
smaller form factor the high - quality builds and experiences of the bigger Amazon
Fire tablets: the 2014
Fire HD 7, the older 7 - inch
Fire HDX, and the 2014
Fire HDX 8.9.
The
Fire HD 8, with its
smaller display, has more pixels per inch, 189ppi to the
Fire HD 10's 149ppi.
This struck us as a
small, unique touch that spoke to the
Fire HD 8's consumer audience in spades.
And we also have a
Fire HD 6» device which is
smaller and even more affordable.
Perhaps the only better deal, on price alone, is its
smaller sibling, the lower - resolution, $ 49.99 Amazon
Fire HD 7.
Amazon's
Fire HD 6 tablet, introduced for the 2014 holiday shopping season, is
smaller and cheaper than most tablets.
The
smaller sibling of the
Fire HD 8, Amazon's
Fire 7 is available in 8 GB and 16 GB memory sizes and the seven - inch IPS display offers just enough sharpness to make watching movies an enjoyable experience.
While the
Fire can't do
HD, it's a relatively
small trade - off compared with the size and breadth of Amazon's Prime video library and the ease in which you're able to stream movies and TV.
We compared the
Fire HD 8 (2017) with its most recent
smaller sibling, the
Fire 7 (2017), as well as a host of other 8 - and 10 - inch Android models: the Huawei MediaPad M3, Xiaomi Mi Pad 3, and Samsung Galaxy Tab S3.
We imagine few consumers will find the two - device option convenient: Instead, they might want to purchase the 7 - inch Nook
HD, or perhaps an iPad Mini or Kindle
Fire HD, which are also
small, lightweight and portable, and support apps and a wide variety of media, including books and videos.
Bottom Line: The Amazon
Fire HD 6 is a well - built, reliable
small - screen tablet for under $ 100, but it really suffers from a lack of storage.
Amazon got the jump on Apple and its rumored iPad nano with a
smaller version of the Kindle
Fire HD, a 7 - inch screen for $ 199.
These will include the Kindle e-ink with special offers, a
smaller and faster version for the reduced price of $ 69, the Kindle
Fire 7 ″ and Kindle
Fire HD 7 ″ 16 GB.
This is the
smallest brother of the Kindle
Fire HD family, featuring all the improved specs in a
smaller body.
At 8.3 x 4.9 x 0.35 inches, the G Pad F 8.0 is on a par with its
small competitors, such as the $ 149 Amazon
Fire HD 8 (8.4 x 5 x 0.3 inches), the $ 199 Asus ZenPad S 8 (8 x 5.3 x 0.26 inches) and the $ 119 Lenovo Tab 2 A8 (8.27 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches).
And whereas the larger
Fire HD can claim display superiority over several competing tablets, the same doesn't hold true for the
smaller model; the Nexus 7 features an identical resolution.
At 7.9 inches the iPad Mini is bigger than the 7 - inch Kindle
Fire HD and Nexus 7, but the whole point of a
smaller tablet is to be, well,
smaller.
To go along with its flagship 8.9 - inch Kindle
Fire HD, Amazon today unveiled a
smaller, 7 - inch version of the tablet, going so far as to label it «the world's most advanced» device in its class.
Smaller text was harder to read than on the Google Nexus 7 and the Kindle
Fire HD.
Amazon has started rolling out the hands - free Alexa feature to its two
smaller Fire tablets after introducing it on the
Fire HD 10.
Amazon had expected Monday's 8.9 - inch Kindle
Fire HD sale to clear out significant inventory; that it's running the same promotion (albeit on a
smaller scale) suggests that perhaps that goal wasn't met.
The screen is basically too
small to effectively consume this type of content and you may elect to buy the iPad Mini, Kindle
Fire HD 8.9, or various 10 inch devices.
One of the initial headaches for publishers of tablet - based books and magazines, especially where the Android platform was concerned, was publishers were having to adapt their content to the various screen sizes, a fact that can only be exacerbated with the
smaller Kindle
Fire tablet, iPad Mini, and Nook
HD, as well as the growing numbers of people who are comfortably reading magazines and newspapers on their smartphones.
As with its
smaller sibling, the
Fire HD 8.9's stereo speakers are located on the back, which usually doesn't augur well for audio.
Unlike the Nexus 7 or the Kindle
Fire HD, Apple's
small tablet has a rear camera.
The Amazon
Fire HD 6, meanwhile, is the best choice if you have
small children, because it's
small and super-cheap.
At 7.5 by 4.7 by.45 inches (HWD) and 14.1 ounces, it's the same size and weight as the previous Kindle
Fire and a little
smaller than the new $ 199 Kindle
Fire HD.
Its 1,920 x1, 200 IPS screen easily bests the one found on Apple's $ 329 iPad Mini (7.9 inches, 1,024 x768), while its $ 269 starting price (which factors in lock - screen ads and 16 GB of storage) isn't prohibitively pricier than
smaller - screened, entry - level tablets like the Google Nexus 7 and Amazon's own 7 - inch Kindle
Fire HD.
And for a
smaller screen alternative, the
Fire HD 8 can't be beat at $ 80.
Like the Adult
Fire HD 8, you're paying $ 30 more than the
smaller version for the boost in specs.
Amazon is bringing the Kindle
Fire HD 8.9 to the UK, so you'll be able to get your hands on the larger Amazon tablet from today for a competitive # 229 for the 16 GB or # 259 for the 32 GB.Up until now Amazon has offered only the
smaller 7 - inch Kindle
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The retailer points out that, even though its screen is 0.9 - inches
smaller, the Kindle
Fire HD has a «stunning
HD display with 30 per cent more pixels than iPad mini».
Families with
small children, for example, will feel more confident with an Amazon
Fire HD in their offspring's hands than an iPad mini or, even, Tesco Hudl 2.
But if you can deal with a
smaller display, the Amazon Kindle
Fire HD 8.9» has a sharper resolution and more polished software for the same price.
Even with the release of the Kindle
Fire HD, iPad Mini, and Nook
HD, CNET tablet reviewer Eric Franklin still believes that overall, the Nexus 7 is the best
small tablet you can buy.
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Compared to the 8 - inch
Fire HD (0.81 pounds), the new
Fire has a slightly
smaller footprint and weighs less, but has the same thickness.
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The
HD 8 even one - ups its
smaller sibling, the $ 99
Fire 7 Kids Edition, by offering a sharper screen and much longer battery life.
In many ways, it's as good as the
smaller Kindle
Fire HD, but throughout my tests I noticed odd bugs and glitches (which should all be fixable by software) and a somewhat disturbing lack of power that's especially obvious when you put the
Fire HD 8.9 next to the iPad 4th Gen