Amazon up to date its Hearth HD 8 lineup on Wednesday. The 2024 model of the price range pill has extra RAM, a greater rear digital camera and a few built-in AI. The machine, which can normally begin at $100 (with lock-screen advertisements), is already on sale for October Prime Day.
As its title suggests, the brand new Hearth HD 8 has an 8-inch show with a 1280 x 800 decision (189 ppi). One of many 2024 mannequin’s large upgrades is 3GB of RAM within the base storage tier (32B). In the meantime, the 64GB variant slides as much as 4GB of RAM. In fact, this can be a price range pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. However that’s nonetheless 50 to one hundred pc greater than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.
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Amazon charges the Hearth HD 8 for as much as 13 hours of battery life. The pill’s rear digital camera is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, however it’s greater than the 2MP within the outdated commonplace model.)
The tablets will embrace some generative AI capabilities. Like Apple’s early tackle AI in its 2024 updates, these embrace a Writing Help function that may jot out messages primarily based on prompts. It might probably additionally summarize internet pages, make grammar options and tweak brevity.
There may also be two children’ variations of the pill: the Hearth HD 8 Children and Hearth HD 8 Children Professional. As you’d anticipate from Amazon’s child-focused variants, these variations will embrace a “kid-proof” case in Disney-branded designs (together with Pixar Automobiles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). Additionally they include a subscription to Amazon Children+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cell video games!) for the kiddos.
The Hearth HD 8 is offered now from Amazon, beginning at $55 for Prime Day (normally $100). The Hearth HD 8 Children pill will usually begin at $140 however is on sale for $70 for Prime Day.
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