That's $20 more than their all-time lows but still roughly $30 off their average street price. It's not a great value at full price, but its shortcomings should be easier to accept at this deal price.Įlsewhere in the sale, the Kids and Kids Pro versions of the Fire HD 8 are each down to $100. As with all Fire tablets, you'll get more out of it if you already subscribe to Amazon Prime and use services like Prime Video, Audible or the Kindle app. While it won't feel fast, it's serviceable if you stick to the basics, and its display gets bright enough. Still, it's durable, its battery should last more than 10 hours on a charge, it charges over USB-C and you can expand its 32GB of storage up to 1TB with a microSD card. It's made of plastic, and its 1,280 x 800 resolution display isn't as sharp as a full 1080p screen. The Fire HD 8 is likely the cheapest acceptable tablet for most people. They make up for that, however, by being extremely affordable, and offering just enough performance to get by if all you need is a larger screen for reading, streaming video and casually browsing the web. Fire tablets as a whole have had the same drawbacks for many years now: They don't come with access to the Google Play Store or official Google apps by default, their hardware is neither as fast nor as nice-feeling as a good iPad, and the non-Kids models come with lock screen ads unless you pay extra.

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