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The UI is slimmer than with previous versions of Fire OS and I found it easier to scroll and navigate. Video and music is where all of your multimedia content is housed, apps, newsstand and Audible. Books, is your library and shopping experience for Kindle books.
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For You, which gives you the time/date/weather and apps you have recently opened, or continue a television series or movie you were watching. There is a sliding carousel navigation menu on the top.
If you have ever had to seen a Fire tablet in person, the UI and menu system is standard fare.
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The Fire HD 8 2020 edition is using Fire OS 7.3, which is based on Android 9.0, it obviously is not the most current operating system out there, but Amazon skins their OS, making it rather distinctive. But it is missing CBS All Access, Apple TV+, and YouTube. It does have Netflix, Hulu, Sling, Disney+, Philo, HBO GO and NOW, Starz, DC Universe, Showtime, and others. The Amazon App Store does not have the wide selection that the Google Play Store has, so you will be missing out on many fringe apps or new ones. I think the Amazon Fire HD 8 2020 edition is a no frills tablet, that makes sense if you shop on Amazon, have an Audible account and buy Kindle books. There are also two stereo speakers, the sound quality impressive. The only other thing is on the very bottom, which is an SD card port, that is protected by a little plastic flap. At the very top is the volume, power, status indicator light, USB-C port and a 3.5mm headphone jack. On the back is the rear facing camera and the Amazon swoosh logo, in the center. The front of the tablet has a flush screen and bezel with a camera at the very top, above the screen. Overall industrial design to similar to previous iterations of the Fire 8 tablets. If you have the 2018 model, this would be good value to upgrade. It’s also available in a “Plus” model with 3GB of RAM and wireless charging. The Fire HD 8 is 30% faster than the two-year-old model it replaces and has 0.5GB more RAM, for a total of 2GB. The dimensions are 202 x 137 x 9.7 mm and weighs 355g. You can connect up to the internet via dual-band Wi-Fi. This is the first generation of Fire tablets to have a USB-C port, instead of Micro USB. Amazon is really billing this device has a Zoom machine in all of their marketing materials. There is also a 2MP rear facing and a 2MP front facing camera.
There is an SD card that is capable of 1TB cards, which is enough for all of your movies, TV shows, songs, Kindle eBooks, magazines, apps, and games, the Fire HD 8 is the perfect tablet for enjoying entertainment. It is powered by a Mediatek MT8168A Quad-core 2.0 GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and the internal storage has two different configurations – 32 or 64 GB.
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It also has two speakers on the back, so you aren’t relegated to plugging in a pair of Bluetooth headphones, but you can do it if you want.
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Unlike an e-reader, you can play games, download and install apps and consume all of your media content in full color. Some people like multipurpose tablets as their daily driver. You have to know if you are buying this, does not have an E INK display, but a full color LCD tablet. Unlike the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers, this is a tablet, with a backlight, but it does have bluelight filters in the settings menu, to offset the bright screen. The Fire HD 8 2020 edition features an 8 inch capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 with 189 PPI. You will find value in this $89 device if you are heavily invested in the Amazon ecosystem and don’t want to spend a lot of money. This tablets major selling points are the faster processor, more RAM, speedier WiFi, and a USB-C port.
The 2020 edition of the Fire HD 8 has been refreshed and has been available for a couple of months.