The reason for this is that Fire HDs are designed to be used with apps from the Amazon app store, which has a fraction of the choice available on Google Play. The bad news is that you might have to familiarise yourself with new software. The good news is that all three Fire HDs can be used as word processors and in the creation of spreadsheets and the like. Overall, the Fire HDs can fulfil the role of a work tablet - you just wouldn't want one as your sole device. The front facing camera is particularly poor, making video conferencing a little embarrassing, and its battery lasts two hours' less than that of the Fire HD 8.Īll three Fires suffer by only being able to access the Amazon app store, though there are ways around this. Its readability has been improved since its 2016 release, with the new 2017 Fire 7 handling smaller text a lot better than before.The Fire HD 10 has the best display and fastest processor Subjectively, the screen looks grainy, and while viewing angles are respectable, the very low 1,024 x 600 resolution makes text look blocky and difficult to read in smaller fonts. It’s a similar story in our other objective tests, with a fairly average maximum brightness of 330.2cd/m2 and a rather high 0.34cd/m2 black level that leaves darker images looking rather grey and milky.Ī contrast ratio of 959:1 isn’t terrible, however it means images and video have a surprising amount of depth, even if the colours aren’t very accurate. It’s easily one of the lowest scores seen from a tablet, and 20% behind the Hudl 2.
The Fire was never going to have an amazing screen, given its bargain-basement price, so in many ways a meagre 59.3% sRGB colour gamut coverage isn't surprising. The matte-plastic finish on the back is actually preferable to the glossy fingerprint magnet on the back of the Fire HD 10. Yes, the screen bezels are a little on the chunky side, and it’s surprisingly heavy given the size, but otherwise it’s actually not bad at all. It doesn’t even look bargain-basement when you take it out of the box. The tablets come in four different colours: Black, Canary Yellow, Marine Blue and Punch Red. To get rid of them, you'll need to pay an additional £10, resulting in a £60 (8GB) and £70 (16GB) price tag.
These are adverts that are displayed on the lockscreen. The Fire 7 tablet is available in two storage options – 8GB and 16GB – which can be found for £50 and £60 respectively.īoth models come with and without "Special Offers".
READ NEXT: Amazon Fire HD 8 review Amazon Fire tablet review: Price and storage options With a Kids Edition also available to parents, the Fire will appeal to everyone. With better connectivity, reasonable battery life and integration with Amazon Alexa, the Fire is an excellent tablet for those on a tight budget. READ NEXT: Best tablets Amazon Fire tablet review: What you need to knowĪt £50 (and frequently discounted throughout the year), Amazon's cheap and cheerful 7in tablet sits in a league of its own. To find out why read the rest of our original review below. In its time, though, the 2017 Amazon Fire 7 was the best-value tablet around. It's since been replaced with the 2019 Amazon Fire 7, though, which again, sees a minor change of specification, including a faster CPU, more storage and hands-free Alexa. Amazon updates its tablets every two years or so but the upgrades are usually minor. In 2017 those upgrades came in the form of a mild spec boost and the addition of Amazon's AI assistant, Alexa, to the tablet's features.
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