Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, 8" HD display, 64 GB, (2020 release), designed for portable entertainment, Twilight Blue

Right up front I want to address the negative reviews that tarnish this product because, as usual, people buy this at a very budget price and expect an iPad or Samsung Tablet. It is NOT an iPad or Samsung, it is an Amazon content delivery device. It is inexpensive because Amazon provides the content and they want you to have a cheap way to enjoy it. It is an E Reader, Music Player, Video Player not a full fledged Android Tablet. Like most Amazon devices it has ads on the lock screen. Any other ads are the fault of the apps. It can be massaged to load apps from Google Play but it wasn't designed for that and results will vary. Expecting this to perform like an iPad or Samsung is wishful thinking of the highest degree. If you can't afford an iPad, don't blame this unit. Don't buy it to do anything but read, listen and watch. I've worn out several of the Fire units over the years and I loved them. They are electronic devices and as such are likely to fail at some point. It's reality. I own 2 iPads as well as This Kindle, an old fire (USB port finally died) and a Kindle Paperwhite. They all serve a purpose. I read constantly and sometimes the Paperwhite is right, Sometimes the Fire is right. The iPads are PC replacements for me and do everything I need to run a small business and record music. I don't expect any of the Kindles to be iPads. Warranty is commensurate with value. 90 days is enough to verify operation. After 90 days you're just unlucky or you dropped the unit so many times it gave up. iPads have a 1 year warranty and you pay for it. My last iPad cost me over $500. I expect a lot more from it than I do a Kindle. I apologize for ranting but it sucks that good products suffer because of bad expectations. A Kindle Fire is a great device for what it was intended to do. I don't really like backlit screens for reading, but sometimes they're desirable. I can watch Movies, Listen to Audiobooks, Listen to music, Stream content and read books and magazines. All on one device that has a screen I don't have to squint at to enjoy. All for a very reasonable price. I had some A-hole grab my fire and run while I was getting a drink refill and it wasn't a nightmare... like if he had run off with my iPad. Buy this for what it is, don't complain about what it isn't.

I upgraded a Fire 7 to a Fire 8 because the microUSB on the Fire 7 became unreliable for charging. The Fire 8 has a USB-C charging port, which addresses the problem, and hopefully is a long-term fix. My Fire 7 was delightful, and I was sorry to retire it before its useful life played out. The Kindle Fire 8 retains the excellent book presentation and the Washington Post, both of which have become central in life during the Covid pandemic. It is a bargain for the what it gives to the owner. Not all is perfect, however. The first Kindle 8 failed within a day when I attempted to install a large collection of MP3 albums. Many, but not all, were purchased from Amazon. They were all installed on my Fire 7, so I know that everything worked fine on that tablet. For the Fire 8, I had problems with some albums when using the Fire 8 built-in music player. These may have been albums that did not come from Amazon. The Kindle went into a loop where it crashed, booted up automatically, worked OK for a minute, then repeated. I could not stop the looping, and the tablet failed after doing this a few times. All the suggestions from Amazon technical support were unable to revive it. So Amazon sent a replacement at no charge, and I returned the failed item. Amazon's policy for customer service is superb; Kindle Fire 8's music player --- not so great. On my replacement Kindle I downloaded a third party MP3 player app which seems to do the job. I was able to load my entire MP3 collection, including albums from Amazon and other sources, without a problem. Because there are a bunch of MP3 apps, I suggest that music enthusiasts look through them before picking a particular one. The one I am using has a much better user interface than the native Kindle Music player, which make selection of albums and creation of playlists much easier. It may not be the best UI out there, but it shows that the Kindle's Music UI leaves much to be desired. The transition from one Kindle to the next was exceptionally easy (except for the music collection problem noted above). I had to remove my Kindle Fire 7 from my devices on my Amazon account, and make my new Kindle Fire 8 my default Amazon device. I downloaded a few apps that I had installed on Fire 7, I logged into a few accounts on the new Kindle. And that was it. It did not take long, and I was up and running. I have been using Amazon e-readers for about 10 years. The experience has been wonderful. A big plus is the local library which has a great collection of Kindle books that are deliverable over the Amazon net using the Overdrive app. I still purchase some Kindle books that are not available from the library. These are delivered instantly. For the library, I am usually wait listed, but they come eventually. As long as I an not in a hurry to read a particular book, my reader queue is full. The consequence over a 10-year period is that I have logged about 1000 books. My tastes include great literature so I have read almost all of the prize winning novels (and many of the finalists) for virtually all literary prizes in that time period. If I had read these in hardcover, the logistics of purchase, storage, and eventual disposal of those books would have been a burden, that is totally avoided. No trees cut, no shipping containers, no storage shelves, and no recycling to a landfill. Since most of those were library books, it was a big financial savings for me. I hope that the royalties and license fees paid by the libraries are adequate compensation for the authors. While each library may contribute less than if the readers had purchased the books, many of the library readers (like myself) would not have purchased the books at all. So the Kindle has helped to create a readership that otherwise may not have existed. The world is a better place when literary art is widely read and appreciated.

I enjoy reading books and watching videos on my new Kindle. - Screen and Size: I appreciate the form factors -- it has sufficient screen size for my use but also very portable to carry around. The display quality of the 8 inch screen is great, everything is crisp and sharp. For me it is the most important thing. It's a great content consumption device which provides excellent reading experience similar to my old Paperwhite. - Speed The marketing material says 30%. Honestly it doesn't matter for my use. It is smooth enough for web browsing. - Battery Life: It claims up to 12 hours of battery life, which impressive for tablet this size. Based on my initial impression, it is probably true. I will come back to update this review later about my real-world usage. - Charging Type-C port! No more micro-USB! According to the specifications, charging time is 5 hours. Get a more powerful charger and I think this regular HD 8 will charge up just as fast as the more expensive Fire HD 8 Plus, if not faster! In my video review, I used a type-c PD charger that delivers 14.12 watts of power when the tablet is around 68% battery. With the included charger, it was only able to deliver 5 watts. I won’t be surprised it can be charged from 0 to 100% under 3 hours! - Storage: It supports 1TB of additional storage! I I bought the 32GB version, put in 64GB SD card and plan to get a larger one in the future for movie storage. - Capable of enabling Alexa, with on/off toggle. It works but I don't use Alexa much.

Looks very stylish and easy to use.

I found I as using my previous Fire HD quite a lot just for ad hoc internet queries and more recently doing puzzles and adventure games . I needed to change as the old one wasn't able to cope with newer mainly graphics based web pages .The battery is as good as on my old one and lasts for ages given intermittent use of the device . Battery life is one of the big plus points for me as continually charging devices is a real bugbear of life these days !

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We can do homework and lots of educational app

Kindle books in colour and Audible books at hand without the need for external speaker. What more could you need?