Amazon started a Fire sale this Monday on all of their existing tablets apart from the newly develop Fire HD 10 which is only taking preorders still, and won’t actually be released before October 18. But apart from that new model and all the Kids versions of it, all the other in-house Amazon Fire tablets are on sale. This includes the 7-inch tablet Fire HD 7 for $39, the 8-inch … more…
Since Amazon unveiled their new Fire HD 10 for the 2023-2024 model year, we have to take the first look at the benchmark performance for the newest 10.1-inch tablet: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon_Fire_HD_10/dp/B0BHZT5S12 Amazon says right on the product page that the new Fire HD 10 is 25% faster than the predecessor. And as we’ll see, Amazon isn’t just being rhetorical either. The previous Fire HD 10 when it was fully charged and … more…
Since Amazon launched the new 10.1-inch tablet Fire HD 10 today, that also meant that the children’s editions of this tablet has been upgraded too: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL5SZ3VV So today, Amazon simultaneously announced the new Fire HD 10 Kids and the Fire HD 10 Kids Pro. The underlying tablet is the same tablet, but they are set up differently with different content for the respective age group, and feature parental controls. The … more…
Amazon launched the new 2023 model Amazon Fire HD 10 today on September 20, which is their new 10.1-inch tablet with Full HD resolution: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHZT5S1 And best of all, despite upgraded specs, Amazon has managed to cut the price from $149 to $139. It’s taking pre-orders before it starts shipping while the release date is set to October 18. The predecessor was launched on April 27, 2021, so the former … more…
I took a look at the first Amazon Fire Max 11 benchmarks, and the results are interesting when compared to both other Fire tablets as well as the most popular Android tablets with the closest size. So if you want to look at the benchmark scores before you buy the Fire Max 11, here they are. The tablet was benchmarked by Amazon 3 times in Geekbench 5 before the unveiling. … more…
Amazon announced the Amazon Fire Max 11 today, which is their largest tablet to date. This is an 11-inch tablet where Amazon introduces digitizer pen support for the first time. The release date for Fire Max 11 is June 14, with the price starting from $229: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1VQ1ZQY/ With this tablet, Amazon is sharpening their largest tablet to a multi-purpose tablet. It’s thinner, has a long battery life, better specs and … more…
It’s obvious that we’re getting close to the launch time for the Google Pixel Tablet as evident by the increasing number of accidental leaks lately. The Google I/O developer conference starts on May 10th, so the timeframe around Google’s conference has been the expected launch date for the Google Pixel Tablet for a long time. The newest leak comes from Amazon again, but this time it’s Amazon Japan, where the … more…
Amazon has started their Easter sale / Spring sale on Fire tablets, where everyone of them except the regualr 7-inch tablet are on sale. But even if the 7-inch Fire 7 is not on sale, the Fire 7 Kids is on sale, with the price lowered from $109 to $59. And for the 8-inch Fire HD 8, the price is discounted from $99 to $59, or $119 to $79 for … more…
I’ve noticed that Amazon got an approval for a new 2023 Fire HD 10 tablet through the FCC yesterday, so we should be able to expect a successor to the current Fire HD 10 soon. The current model was launched in April 2021, so that’s stretching your luck a bit in tablet years. Amazon has prevented most of the specs from leaking out in advance, but I saw that Amazon … more…
If you’ve been waiting since Christmas for Amazon’s tablets to go one sale again, all but one of the Fire are on sale for the holiday today: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z8HLHT/ Right now the Fire HD 8 costs $59, the 10.1-inch Full HD tablet costs $85, with an additional $20 for the Plus models with more RAM and wireless charging. The children’s tablet computers from Amazon are also on sale for Martin Luther … more…
Amazon released the new Fire HD 8 last week, so we should take a look at what the performance of it is. Since this is an Amazon tablet, it runs the Fire OS 8 operating system, which is based on Android 11, but unlike additional user interfaces that most Android tablet manufacturers slap onto their tablets, the Fire OS is more like an OS in itself. And while it has … more…
Amazon have a small Octoberfest going for its own inhouse Fire tablets, with sales on all of them, including for the first time a sale on the new 7-inch model. The new Fire 7 is on sale for $44, which is the first time this $59 tablet has gone on sale. There are sales on the Fire HD 8 also for $44, but these sales are on the 2020 model … more…
Amazon, the company that popularized the e-reader launched the 11th generation Kindle today. This is the entry level e-reader with a price of $99, but it has seen some upgrades over the predecessors: https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-2022-release-high-resolution/ It starts taking pre-orders today and will launch and ship to buyers on October 12. Since this is a dedicated e-reader and not a tablet, it has a 6-inch glare free display with 16-level gray scale … more…
I discovered that Amazon has a new unannounced tablet in the works for launch this fall via today’s FCC listings, and this new Amazon tablet looks like a new 8-inch model. The FCC leaked specs only gives us so much to go on, but the approval papers specifies that this is an Amazon tablet, that’s been approved as both a regularly charging tablet and as a wirelessly charging tablet. (UPDATED: … more…
Now that Amazon has release the new Fire 7, their latest 7-inch tablet, it’s time to take a quick look at its performance. Since the 2022 model Fire 7 has both a faster and more efficient processor, as well as more RAM, it makes it correct for Amazon to state that the new model is 30% faster than the predecessor. It’s powered by a mostly similar ARM Cortex-A53 2.0 GHz … more…