Amazon up to date its Fire 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 digicam setup and built-in AI options to make it totally different from its predecessor. The machine will usually begin at $100 (with lock-screen adverts), 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 massive 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 funds pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless 50 to one hundred pc increased than the 2GB of RAM within the 2022 mannequin.
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Save massive on Amazon’s just-announced Fireplace HD 8 pill for 2024.
Amazon charges the Fireplace HD 8 for as much as 13 hours of battery life. The pill’s rear digicam is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, however it’s increased than the 2MP within the outdated customary model.)
The tablets additionally embrace some generative AI capabilities. Like Apple’s early take on 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 net pages, make grammar solutions and tweak brevity.
There are two youngsters’ variations of the pill as effectively: the Fire HD 8 Kids and Fire HD 8 Kids Pro. 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 Kids+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cell video games!) for the kiddos. Between the 2, the Youngsters model has a thicker case constructed for youthful tykes, whereas the Youngsters Professional has a slimmer exhausting case designed for older kids. Each Youngsters tablets will usually price $140 however are at present right down to $70 for Prime Day.
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