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 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.

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 was an early Kindle Fire adapter, but I think the last one I bought was in 2017. So this one is definitely a step up from that. I just got tired of the Fire OS - it was too locked up and not as robust as regular Android. Plus, there is one mindless Android game that I love that isn't available in the Amazon App Store, so that's a thing. I like to talk a lot before getting to the actual review. Sorry. Context is important for me. ***Actual review*** I decided to buy a new Fire because I wanted something a little larger than my phone screen (I have a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, which actually has a pretty large screen) to watch movies on when on vacation. Fires tend to be cheaper than most tablets, so I looked there first. This came up with decent specs for an amazing price, so I bought one. Then realized that it wouldn't be out until 6/29. I got it yesterday and set it up. Here are my impressions: Kindle Fire 7 with 32gb storage & no ads. Pros - Perfect size to watch movies on an airplane tray table - Decent screen resolution (my eyesight isn't what it used to be, and this is still better than everything I had growing up) - Made for Amazon environment, so Prime Video, Audible, and Kindle books work great. Mostly. - Most of the apps I use are in the Amazon Appstore - I paid $94 to get this without ads and to get the 32gb size - that's way cheaper than a comparable name brand tablet anywhere else (I'm looking at you Samsung & Apple!) - There's an expandable memory slot - I have a 128gb micro SD card in there (It makes you format the card before you can use it) - USB-C cord!!!!!! I don't know when Fires switched to this, but I'm glad they finally did - Amazing battery life. I downloaded a whole bunch of shows and also reset a couple of times. Then downloaded again. After several hours of aggressive usage, it's still at 66%. Cons - Wow, this is slow. I'm comparing it to my phone, which is technically top of the line as of last November, and this is slow. It's also $1400 less than I paid for my phone, so while it's annoying, it's not enough to knock off a whole star. - Can't fast charge. Not a huge issue because the battery is pretty big & I have to sleep sometime, but still. - Can't download the one game I want from the Play store. Yes, I know that there's a way to do it, but it's annoying that it's not easy out of the box. - Not all the customer service people know enough about this to help when you have issues. (Yeah, technically not the unit's fault, but as someone who was DM'ing with them for 2 hours yesterday and talked with 4 different people, I'm putting this con somewhere!) - Can't save Prime Video content to the SD card. At least you can't download there. That's why I got the card. I'm not sure I can transfer Prime Videos between internal & SD yet. I think this is the same for all Amazon content. - I kept getting "service_error" when I downloaded tv episodes that I had purchased, even when the episodes weren't on another device. According to Customer Service, you can only have them on 2 devices. I only had them on one, and I deleted them off that one, and I still kept getting the error. TL;DR: This is a really, really good tablet, bordering on great FOR. THE. PRICE! The form factor is awesome for travel, and as long as you play in Amazon's sandbox, the experience is mostly good. I did have a lot of problems downloading episodes, which is actually why I bought this in the first place, and I don't like that you can't download Amazon content to the SD card. I'm not sure if there are legal reasons for that, but I don't like it.

I had been using an ancient Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet for several years for music, occasional video, and very rarely games; most apps would no longer work properly on it, so I knew that when Prime Day rolled around, I was going to get an upgrade. After a great deal of research, I picked the Fire HD 8, and after a few days of using it, I couldn't be happier with my choice. I purchased the version with lockscreen ads, but I honestly don't even notice them, and couldn't tell you anything about a single one that I've seen. All of the major streaming apps for movies, television, and music are available in the Amazon Appstore, and most were already pre-loaded on the device. The screen is great for this price range--colors are bright, lines are sharp, and there's not really any pixilation. The device is extremely lightweight, and fits nicely in my hands. It's made of plastic, but it doesn't feel cheap like many other devices in this price range. The sound quality is also surprisingly good, so it can easily be used without external speakers or earbuds without sacrificing too much in terms of quality. Battery life seems about average so far. There are only a very small handful of negatives. The screen seems to hold fingerprints and smudges much more easily than many other devices that I own. Furthermore, the device as a whole seems sluggish for the first few minutes after turning it on, although this doesn't seem to last for very long. Additionally, while the Amazon Appstore has basically everything I want for my purposes, there's nowhere near the variety of the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, so some people will definitely be missing things they want. Semi-related to the lack of Appstore offerings, the Silk browser that comes preinstalled is honestly pretty terrible, and seems to even have trouble properly processing things in Bing, which is its default search engine; I plan to rarely use this to surf the web, and set up Bing Rewards so I at least get something out of it if I feel that I need to do so, so this isn't as problematic for me as it may be for others. Overall, this is a fantastic tablet at this price point. If you primarily want to stream music and video, or are looking for something inexpensive for a child, this is a great option. Unlike the other offerings in this price range (Onn and random Chinese brands), the screen quality and sound are great, and this doesn't feel cheap (I'd imagine that it's sold at cost or at a loss, primarily to encourage people to utilize Amazon services). If the Amazon Appstore were more robust--which would be doing consumers a favor by hitting the current duopoly, considering Apple is trying to build a "walled garden" they control entirely, and Google would like to do something similar (especially when Fuchsia rolls out to phones and tablets in two or so years)--I would honestly recommend this device to everyone who was looking for a tablet. That being said, this is easily the best device in this price range, and anyone considering a tablet, especially if they're primarily looking for a streaming device, should give the Fire HD 8 a look.

With roughly 26,000 reviews at the time of writing this, I'm almost certain that this review will get lost in the clutter. Hopefully, someone in the audiophile community sees this and finds it helpful! I am a long time iPhone user. There are several significant drawbacks to being an iPhone user who also loves music, headphones, DACs, amps, etc. The fixed storage, the lack of options for Bluetooth (literally AAC, which is alright but still heavily compresses the file, or SBC, which isn't even worth talking about), and the wonderfully finicky lightning connector. Making an iPhone work means 1) You're going to need an unlimited data plan (or a constant wifi connection), 2) You're probably going to want to USB-DAC everything, and 3) You'll also need a couple Apple branded camera adapters on hand because finding replacement lightning to anything cables is nearly impossible (or expensive, or requires about a month to have it shipped to you). Suffice to say, I was really tired of having my iPhone as my only source device. Most DAPs are too expensive for the price and you receive an incredibly buggy UI. Tried the M11 and M11 Pro and it wasn't for me. Had a stroke of genius and thought, "The Fire HD is only like $90, why I don't try that". So glad I did. Now, I've got an iPad Pro so everything about the Fire HD 8 feels cheap. The screen is 1080p with a significantly lower refresh rate, the colors are meh, etc. etc. It's $89. The battery life is surprisingly good. The Amazon app store isn't great, but you can download apk to the tablet and it'll run it perfectly well - which is great because 80% of the apps you would use an audiophile are not on the Amazon app store. You will want to download APK Pure. The UI isn't quick or anything. Again, it's $89. Here are a few things that sold me on this tablet for my audiophile hobby: 1) You can stick a microSD in it. I bought a 256 GB microSD (I believe this gen of Fire HD can handle up to 1TB) and downloaded my entire Tidal library to it which is probably about 7,000 songs. 2) It has LDAC! I can use my BTR5 with this on LDAC and the connection is so stable, I can walk around my whole house which is great. Compared to AAC on my iPhone, I couldn't be more than like 20 feet from my iPhone and any walls interrupted connection immediately. 3) The Fire HD will do USB out to a DAC and will do it without the need of a special OTG or camera adapter cable. I'm not sure how it works. My only concern was if the Fire HD would compress the file before it even sent it to the DAC for decoding. According to the RGB indicators, however, everything seems to be running HiRes which is 24bit/96kHz minimum (I believe). 4) Its a tablet (a small one granted) so its got a really good pro and a great con. The larger screen makes it super easy to navigate on (nothing like trying to navigate on the FiiO M6) but it also reduces its portability. Its not really a burden to carry around - I just can't fit it into my pocket. 5) It's $89. If you're like me and you're looking for an audio source that can run Tidal, has expandable storage, is moderately portable, good battery life, USB-DAC compatible, and let's you keep your iPhone (I could switch to Android but what's the fun in that) - then I highly recommend the FireHD8. It's $89. Side note: If anyone from Amazon reads this - I'd love to see a collaboration between Amazon and Drop (or some other audio giant) to create a DAP that has all the components we want, a usable UI (one that isn't riddled with bugs preferably), and doesn't cost four figures to own. Just something in that sweet spot between consumer friendly and audiophile niche that isn't the iPod. If Amazon isn't up for that, then some other tech giant would be great.

This is my first ever Kindle device. For reading ebooks I've always used the Kindle app on my phone. I don't have a lot of experience with tablets, but I will share my thoughts on the Kindle Fire HD8. I was eagerly looking forward to reading ebooks on this tablet. I didn't expect to enjoy watching videos on it so much. Prime, Netflix, etc. The picture is really vibrant. I can also play games, listen to Amazon Music, and search the internet with the Silk browser. There are a lot of different apps available, including Zoom. (I haven't tried a Zoom meeting on the Fire yet) Of course I can shop on Amazon and check on my orders. The size is just perfect. The screen is large enough for anything I would do on it, yet the whole thing is small enough to slip into my purse and take with me on the go. This would be awesome for commuting or travel. I can't wait to take it on the road. I like that the screen "wakes up" automatically when I open the cover of the case I purchased for it. I added an SD card that doubles its storage space and allows me access to the downloaded items when I'm not on wifi. This is a big plus. Not that I have come close to using all the storage space yet. I've connected bluetooth headphones to it just fine. There are some limitations with the Kindle. I've discovered that I can't download the Gmail app, but I can access my gmail account through the Silk browser. There is a Kindle email app available, but I'm not using it. There are some other apps that aren't available in the Kindle app store. For most of those apps that I want, I have been able to download them from outside sources, once I change my Kindle settings to allow for it. Each time I think I've found something that won't work on this tablet, I figure out a way to make it work. I can see how a more expensive tablet might give you more options (iPad). But if you are using the tablet mostly for ebooks and videos, this is a great choice. It is a LOT more than an reader. I think I will be able to accomplish everything I want to with this Fire tablet, and the price point is pretty good. I researched several different tablets to make my decision. I'm very happy with this one.

This tablet is a great blend of economy and function. If you are new to tablets, or just a casual user, this might be the ideal option for you. Getting online, listening to music, checking your social media accounts, watching movies...it does pretty much what most of us use tablets for anyways but at 1/10th the cost of an iPad. Now will it ever replace a genuine tablet used for school or business? No, and it wasn't designed for that type of use. However if going in with the expectation that this is an entertainment gadget rather then a business or educational toolbox, you won't be disappointed. The video quality is superbly crisp and clear. Don't worry about naysayers who argue the resolution isn't as good as more expensive models. The true fact is that any higher definition is a total waste of mony on a small screens...one really only begins to notice the differences betwen HD and something like 4k when you get into the 65" screens and above...and this is an 8" screen. The speakers provide an acceptable level of stereo sound with enough volume that you can hear it clearly from across the room. The battery life is significantly improved over previous versions. After charging it up straight out of the box, I streamed 3+ hours of Netflix and was still at 93% battery (I did have the screen brightness turned down some). The processor is fast enough for what I need it to do and never lagged when streaming or downloading content. The built in 32GB of storage is honestly more then I will end up using, and if for some reason I need more I can always pop in a memory card. Lastly, I'm thankful for the upgrade to USB-C charging port...SOOO MUCH BETTER then the antiquated micro-USB which for years has been a critical issue in devices due to tabs bending/breaking .

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