Amazon up to date its Fireplace HD 8 lineup on Wednesday. The 2024 model of the finances pill has extra RAM, a greater rear digital camera and a few built-in AI. The system, which is able to often begin at $100 (with lock-screen adverts), is already on sale for October Prime Day.
As its title 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 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 finances pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. However that’s nonetheless 50 to 100% larger 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, however it’s larger than the 2MP within the previous 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 based mostly on prompts. It could additionally summarize internet pages, make grammar solutions and tweak brevity.
There can even be two children’ variations of the pill: the Fireplace HD 8 Youngsters and Fireplace HD 8 Youngsters 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 Automobiles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). In addition they include a subscription to Amazon Youngsters+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cellular video games!) for the kiddos.
The Fireplace HD 8 is accessible now from Amazon, beginning at $55 for Prime Day (often $100). The Fireplace HD 8 Youngsters pill will sometimes begin at $140 however is on sale for $70 for Prime Day.
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