
New Amazon Fire HD 8 Offers Longer Battery Life, More Storage, Faster Performance, and Alexa
Amazon has just relaeased the new Fire HD 8, the next-generation Fire HD tablet designed from the ground up for all-day entertainment. The tablet has an 8" widescreen HD display (1280 x 800, 189 ppi) and quad-core 1.3 GHz processor and offers 12 hours of battery life (4,750 mAh), 1.5 GB of RAM for faster performance, and 2x the on-device storage (options for 16 GB or 32 GB), plus support for up to 200 GB of additional storage via a microSD card—all for $89.99. Fire HD 8 also introduces Alexa, the cloud-based voice service, for the first time on Fire tablets - just press and ask-Alexa can play music, launch games, read audiobooks, and more. Alexa will be available on the all-new Fire HD 8, Fire HD 10, Fire and last year’s Fire HD 8 tablets via a free over-the-air software update in the coming months.
Fire HD 8 delivers access to millions of movies, TV shows, songs, books, apps and games, as well as exclusive features like X-Ray, ASAP, Second Screen, Underground, and On Deck.
The tablet also feartures front- and rear-facing cameras, Dolby Audio-Fire HD 8 stereo speakers and runs on the Fire OS 5.
The new Fire HD 8 is available for pre-order beginning today with 16 GB or 32 GB of memory starting at $89.99.