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• #AMAZON KINDLE FIRE TABLET UPGRADE#

Other than the rear camera and an embedded Amazon logo, there’s nothing else to discuss. I went for the blue option, but black, white, and plum are also available. The back of the device is a sea of textured plastic, in one of four colors. The quality of those speakers won’t blow your mind, but they’re fine for watching shows and playing background music. A covered microSD slot sits on the right edge, with stereo speakers on the left edge. The top of the tablet holds most of the ports and controls: a USB C charging socket, headphone jack, power and volume buttons, and a microphone. If your main use for this tablet will be watching HD content on Netflix (or as Amazon would prefer, Prime Video,) you’ll be more than satisfied here.

The 10.1″ screen is the most obvious example, a bright 1920×1080 display with clarity and colors that are as good as you’ll get at this price point. While other budget tablets generally look and perform like the low-cost devices they are, Amazon’s hardware and design are a step up, and that’s especially true for the “premium” model, the Fire HD 10. Amazon has since released the 2021 version that’s slightly smaller and has minor specification updates, but is otherwise largely the same.Īmazon’s tablet hardware has long been pretty impressive for the money. Note: this review is of the 2019 model of the Fire HD 10. After a week of solid use, these are my thoughts on the Amazon Fire HD 10. I pulled out the credit card, hit the buy button, and started waiting impatiently beside the door. When I saw the company advertising a Fire sale (get it?), it finally pushed me over the edge.

#AMAZON KINDLE FIRE TABLET UPGRADE#

The best example of that? Amazon’s Fire range, most of which has had an upgrade in the last year and offers a lot of tablet for not a lot of money. That’s mainly because budget models have got a lot better since 2013, and cheap no longer has to equal terrible. I also wanted it to cost a lot less, because spending a few hundred dollars on a tablet these days feels extravagant. I no longer had to buy the smallest model, since I wasn’t living out of a backpack anymore. When it finally came time to buy another, both the tablet market and my needs had changed. Seven years, to be exact, since I’d walked out of a Best Buy in Vancouver, Washington with a new Google Nexus 7 tucked under my arm.

It’d been a long time since I last bought a tablet.