Amazon Fire HD 8: more storage, more battery, same price
Amazon is bumping up RAM, storage and battery on its Fire HD 8 tablet.
Not only Apple is bumping up storage in their tablets lately, Amazon also gives you twice the storage on its Fire HD 8 tablet. It also bumps up RAM and battery.
Who knows, if Amazon is mimicking Apple or if it was their idea all along, but similar to Tim Cook's Cupertino company, Amazon is bumping up the storage on their Fire HD 8 tablet from 8 GB to 16 GB and from 16 GB to 32 GB for the same price. In addition to this welcome storage boost, Amazon will also upgrade your RAM to 1,5 GB and give you more battery life on the device, up to 12 hours, according to Amazon.
The Fire HD 8 tablet is a 8 inch tablet with a 1.280 x 800 Pixel resolution. It contains a 1,3 Ghz Quad-Core processor and runs on Fire OS 5, which is an Android 5 variant, that is strictly tied to Amazon services. We did test the tablet in 2015 and found it to have a good screen, we did not like the Fire OS restrictions though, the quality of the webcams and battery life. At least the latter should be better now. If you do not mind the Amazon services restrictions, you can get your hands on the Fire HD 8 from September 21st starting at $90 for the 16 GB version.
Alexander Fagot - Managing Editor News - 9389 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2016
As a young tech enthusiast with a history involving assembling and overclocking projects, I ended up working as a projectionist with good old 35-mm films before I entered the computer world at a professional level. I assisted customers at an Austrian IT service provider called Iphos IT Solutions for seven years, working as a Windows client and server administrator as well as a project manager. As a freelancer who travels a lot, I have been able to write for Notebookcheck from all corners of the world since 2016. My articles cover brand-new mobile technologies in smartphones, laptops, and gadgets of all kinds.
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