July has typically been Amazon’s own Prime Week sales week, which is Black Friday and Cyber Monday all rolled into one. But citing the global lockdown, Amazon has deleayed the 2020 Prime week until October this year instead. But from Monday of, to match the yearly expectation, all of Amazon’s Fire tablets are on sale anyway, starting from a mere $34 for the 7-inch Fire 7 tablet. The brand new … more…
People all make their buying decisions differently, and when it comes to new computer devices, it’s only natural that a lot of people want to know the specific details on the hardware. But when the new Fire HD 8 and Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus tablets were announced on Wednesday, some of those particular hardware specs were not included, and I had to ask for it myself. So knowing that … more…
When Amazon announced the new Fire HD 8 today, they also introduced the additional new 8-inch tablet with a couple of extras, called the Fire HD 8 Plus. Taking pre-orders now from $109, the release date is June 3 for this tablet too: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B087F2C185/ What’s different about it compared to the standard Fire HD 8, is that it has 50% more RAM at 3GB of RAM, it comes with a … more…
Amazon announced the new 8-inch tablet Amazon Fire HD 8 today on May 13, and it will be released on June 3, which is 1 1/2 years after the Fire HD 8 predecessor was launched: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TMJ1R3X/ So here is what’s new with the new Fire HD 8 2020 model. The entry price has gone by $10 to $89, but then the specs have improved too. It now has twice the … more…
It looks like Amazon just got a new computer device approved in the tablet category at FCC, using a front company called Mangled Horses LLC this time. There are three alternatives for this device as far as I can tell. It’s either a new 2020 Fire tablet, or it’s a smart device with a touchscreen, like Echo Show, or it’s a tablet for internal use at Amazon’s warehouses. UPDATE: This … more…
The Amazon Fire HD 8 is on sale today on Tuesday March 17th, with a nice price cut from $79 down to $49: www.amazon.com/firehd8 The Fire HD 8 is Amazon’s 8-inch tablet with the Android based Fire OS 6.3 operating system and enormous ecosystem of media content and apps. It comes with 16GB and 32GB storage options, though it supports microSD cards up to 400GB and has free online storage … more…
Amazon is the latest tablet brand to join in on the Presidents Day sales today, after Lenovo first, and then HP, Acer, Microsoft, and Apple. On sale today are all of Amazon’s Fire tablets, starting at $39 for the 7-inch tablet Fire 7, $59 for the 8-inch Fire HD 8, and $109 for the 10.1-inch Full HD tablet Fire HD 10. All of the kids tablets are on sale for … more…
Amazon has once again placed all their Fire tablets on sale today until 4PM (PST) (that was according to Amazon anyway), which means you can pick up a tablet ahead of Super Bowl or Valentine’s Day or someone’s birthday on the cheap: https://www.amazon.com/node=6669703011 The prices are $34 for the 7-inch tablet Fire 7, down from $49. Then $49 for the 8-inch tablet Fire HD 8, down from $70 normally. And … more…
Whether you are looking for a tablet for yourself or one as a Christmas gift this year, there’s still time to get a tablet deal before Christmas, as a new round of mid-December tablet sales are now under way. A few of these tablet deals have carried over from the Black Friday sales, but not always with the same high discount that we saw back then. Though there are some … more…
Amazon will launch their new 8-inch smart display on November 21 for a regular price of $129, but now just before the release there’s a small $30 discount on it so that the Echo Show 8 can be bought for $99: https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Show-8/ Echo Show 8 comes in the options black or white and features two stereo speakers at 10 watt, making the 200% more powerful than the most powerful of … more…
Amazon’s new Fire OS tablet Fire HD 10 have been released globally today from $149, three weeks after it was announced on October 7: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1RZWMC/ The new Fire HD 10 tablet is Amazon’s fastest and most powerful tablet, with a Full HD 10.1-inch screen, and it has seen some significant changes over the predecessor, such as the new octa-core 2.0 GHz MediaTek MT8183 processor with a Mali-G72 GPU, a USB … more…
A fire sale is under way on tablets, or rather a sale on Amazon’s Fire tablets in a sale that’s ongoing for 72 hours on all but the new Fire HD 10 that will launch on Wednesday next week. The Fire tablet deals now in October saves us $10 on the now $39 7-inch Fire 7 (2019), $20 on the $59 Fire HD 8 (2018), $30 on the $69 Fire … more…
Amazon did announce their new Fire HD 10 tablet this week for the 2019 – 2020 model year or beyond, but they didn’t specify then what particular processor or GPU it has, only that the tablet is 30% faster than the preceding tablet it replaces: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07K1RZWMC But now that developers have got their hands on the new Fire HD 10, I can confirm that the processor in the new Fire … more…
Amazon announced an all-new Kindle Kids Edition today, a 6-inch ereader that has no distractions, just access to books and a built-in dictionary: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ56ZKJ/ As such it makes a pretty good case for itself, first because it will encourage kids to read, focus, and look up words easily with the dictionary. And secondly with access to huge amounts of Ebooks through Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, parents can save a lot of … more…
After unveiling the new Fire HD 10 today, Amazon also unveiled the new kids edition of the same tablet called New Fire HD 10 Kids Edition which comes with the kids bumper case with kickstand as well as special content and a 2-year free replacement tablet should the first one break: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KD7K4B1 And like the Fire HD 10, the New Fire HD 10 Kids Edition will also launch on October … more…