Although slim, it’s hardly the most arresting of sights. It’s available in the same four colours – black, blue, magenta and tangerine – and made almost entirely of plastic. Physically, it’s the same as last year’s Fire HD 8. Amazon Fire HD 8 review: DesignĮlsewhere, little has changed. It’s the longest-lasting Fire tablet we’ve tested, and lasted longer in this test than the larger Amazon Fire HD 10 by roughly four hours. In our video-rundown test – in which we set the screen to a standard brightness of 170cd/m 2, put the device into flight mode and play video continuously until the battery dies – the Fire HD 8 lasted 13hrs 4mins. Where the Fire HD 8 shines is its stamina. Amazon’s Silk browser does a good job of keeping all but the most media-heavy websites feeling responsive and usable. Importantly, too, the HD 8 will get you from A to B in Fire OS without chugging too much, it copes fine with Netflix and BBC iPlayer streaming, and it’s a reasonably accomplished tool for browsing the web. That’s not the fastest, not by a long shot, but menu navigation was reasonably smooth, and general navigation didn’t raise any red flags.
In a serious case of “you get what you pay for” the Fire HD 8 scored 644 in the Geekbench 3 single-core test, and 1,854 in multi-core. it’s not particularly quick, as expected, and suffers from serious slowdown issues, but will serve you well for the most part. With zero change to its innards, the Amazon Fire HD 8 – unsurprisingly – performs near-identical to the budget tablet it supersedes. Amazon Fire HD 8 review: Performance and battery life This is the new Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, now with Alexa.
This, the 2017 version, looks identical, comes with the same quad-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT8163 processor and 1.5GB of RAM, but there’s something a little extra up its sleeve. In its original incarnation, the Amazon Fire HD 8 was released at the back end of 2015, along with the Amazon Fire HD 10 and the 6in, £50 Fire. Amazon followers might feel like they’ve seen this product somewhere before, and they’d be right.
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