7/30/2023 0 Comments Fire hd 8 tablet review![]() The rest are really out to suggest new stuff for you to download. ![]() These are your app drawer and a page of your recently-used apps - the closest you get to multitasking. However, only two of them are really about showing you content you already own. There are 10 homescreens, which you flick through horizontally just like those of a normal Android phone or tablet. Rather than having a core interface filled with apps and games you’ve downloaded, all the ‘digital stores’ Amazon runs are weaved into the core software. While the Amazon Fire HD 8 is really an Android tablet, the Fire OS software underneath completely determines how the tablet feels, and its style is totally different to standard Android. The Amazon Fire HD 8 feels like a tablet designed for people who are going to want to consume a lot of stuff, too. That means you’ll have to manually adjust it whenever you move outdoors. On the practical side, the thing also lacks an auto brightness setting. The screen issues make the Amazon Fire HD 8’s display look scrappy and a bit dated. The tone is very warm too: not bad-looking, but clearly a bit ‘tweaked’. Screen quality just isn’t really high enough, though, and our review sample has some pretty obvious backlight bleed in one corner. It’s an IPS LCD screen, the right sort for everyone but an OLED maestro like Samsung, and its colour reproduction and viewing angles are both totally fine. I say relatively because not everything’s bad. And this one is, at least relatively, a dud. I find screen quality to be perhaps the single most important aspect that separates tablets. How bad is it? Well, it’s nowhere near as blocky as the Fire HD 10, which has the same resolution but a larger display, but we’re also nowhere near Retina-grade here. Given how much of a gut punch Amazon could have given to the tablet market with these new Fire HD tablets, that it seems content to duke it out in the lower leagues with the also-rans is disappointing. ![]() But the lot are totally outclassed by the 1080p-and-greater crowd, which don’t always cost any more cash. There are quite a few skinflint stragglers at this resolution like the Lenovo A8, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. It has an 8in 1280 x 800 pixel display, getting us pixel density of just 189ppi. That’d be great if the Amazon Fire HD 8’s screen also didn’t let us down. ![]()
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