Amazon up to date its Fireplace HD 8 lineup final week and has promptly discounted the slates for its October Prime Day sale. The brand new slab has extra RAM, a greater digital camera setup and built-in AI options to make it totally different from its predecessor. The gadget will usually begin at $100 (with lock-screen advertisements), however Amazon is now promoting the bottom mannequin for $55 by October 9. An upgraded configuration with extra reminiscence and storage can also be on sale for $85, down from its $130 MSRP.
As its identify suggests, the brand new Fireplace HD 8 has an 8-inch show with a 1280 x 800 decision (189 ppi). One of many 2024 mannequin’s huge upgrades is having 3GB of RAM within the base storage tier (32GB). The 64GB variant, in the meantime, slides as much as 4GB of RAM. In fact, that is very a lot a finances pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. But it surely’s nonetheless 50 to one hundred pc greater than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.
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Amazon charges the Fireplace 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(That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, but it surely’s greater than the 2MP within the outdated customary model.)
The tablets additionally 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 based mostly on prompts. It could possibly additionally summarize internet pages, make grammar recommendations and tweak brevity.
There are two children’ variations of the pill as nicely: the Fireplace HD 8 Children and Fireplace HD 8 Children Professional. As you’d count on from Amazon’s child-focused variants, these variations will embrace a “kid-proof” case in Disney-branded designs (together with Pixar Vehicles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). In addition they include a subscription to Amazon Children+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cell video games!) for the kiddos. Between the 2, the Children model has a thicker case constructed for youthful tykes, whereas the Children Professional has a slimmer exhausting case designed for older kids. Each Children tablets will usually price $140 however are at present right down to $70 for Prime Day.
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