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 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 means of 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 large 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. After all, that is very a lot a finances pill, so these aren’t near barrier-breaking numbers. Nevertheless it’s nonetheless 50 to 100% 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 digicam is 5MP. (That’s the identical because the “Plus” model of its 2022 predecessor, nevertheless it’s greater than the 2MP within the previous 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 primarily based on prompts. It might additionally summarize internet pages, make grammar recommendations and tweak brevity.
There are two children’ variations of the pill as properly: 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 Automobiles, Disney Princess or Marvel Avengers). In addition they include a subscription to Amazon Children+, the corporate’s content material supply service (together with cellular 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 onerous case designed for older kids. Each Children tablets will sometimes price $140 however are at the moment right down to $70 for Prime Day.
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