![]() The good: thin, light, screen size, Amazon content consumption, advantageous price. ![]() "For a low-cost option to throw around on the couch and out and about, Amazon has done well - but it won't wow you the second you pick it up," Gareth Beavis, journalist at TechRadar concludes. However, the comparison with the better looking and faster working HDX line tablets from Amazon can make a client think twice before investing in the Fire HD 10. The Fire HD 10 costs around $100 less than other similar sized tablets, and offers about the same things. Word Wise is bundled in the same menu and can be a great parenting tool for explaining complicated words to children. Word Runner is an Amazon speed-reading app that shows you the text, word by word. The company also offers a few reading apps for e-book fans. The stereo speakers are potent enough to make a video enjoyable. You can even download movies and watch them later, during a 48-hour window. Amazon Prime Video gives access to both movies and TV shows. ![]() If you have Amazon Prime, you're in for a treat. If you're tolerant of ads, then you probably won't spend $15 to get rid of them on your lockscreen," Lauren Hockenson, reporter at The Next Web affirms.įire HD 10 behaves best when you use it to access and enjoy Amazon's services. "Unfortunately, the worst thing about the Amazon's OS is its lockscreen. The compose button, for example, seems placed randomly to the bottom right of the email's subject. It now works better and faster, and the email client is sharper than ever, but some icon locations are surprising. The Silk browser, developed by Amazon, received an update. A grid that contains the installed applications will be recognized by HD and Android fans. There is no longer a content list or activity categories, but labels that users can swipe through quickly. The Amazon carousel was replaced with an Android-based interface, making the design more straightforward. The tablet works on Fire OS 5.0, based on Android Lollipop. "I'm loathe to encourage tablet photography, and frankly the results from the Fire HD 10's camera probably aren't going to lure many people into using it in anything but a pinch," Davies states.Įight hours of battery life can be used for movie watching, e-book reading, Internet surfing or music listening. For Skype fans, the front-facing camera could be satisfactory, but that's pretty much all it can do. The 5MP rear-facing camera shoots average photos as well as 1080p videos, but it is a subpar component when compared to any decent smartphone. Text-only materials are readable with ease in landscape format, but graphic novels not so much. Experimentalists might want to read an e-book in portrait position, where the proportion of the screen turns the pages into oddities. However, widescreen movies were enjoyable, as were some side-scrolling games. "Screen resolution doesn't hold a candle to rivals, either: 1280 x 800 is a far cry from the 2048 x 1536 of the iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9," says Chris Davies, executive editor for SlashGear. Secondly, the 1,280 x 800 HD disappoints a bit, considering that one of Fire HD 10's main purposes is movie watching. The result is something that is so wide and relatively narrow it's almost unwieldy," Ulanoff points out. "And while the HDX offers a 4:3 aspect ratio, the new tablets, including this 10.1-inch one, opt for a 16:9 screen. The display surprises in two ways: firstly, the 16:9 ratio of the screen takes a bit getting used to. "As a mid-tier tablet, the Kindle Fire HD 10 is an unpleasant mixture of average and sub-par performance," Lance Ulanoff, Chief Correspondent and Editor-at-Large of Mashable, writes.īasic features include 1GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory, but the addition of a microSD can take that number up to 128GB. Geekbench gave it a 774 single-core performance score and 1502 multicore, a score half of that of the HDX model. ![]() Even if the tablet has 2 CPUs, a dual-core running at 1.5GHz and one at 1.2GHz, it had slow loading times when returning to the home screen. ![]()
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