Amazon launches new budget Fire HD 8 tablet with Alexa voice service for $89

by Kumkum Sharma 998 views0

Amazon has reportedly launched a new 8 Android tablet with the Alexa cloud based voice feature. It is supposedly making a mark for itself in the gadget market. Up for pre-order today for $89 it will be shipped by September 2016.

Highlights:

Amazon brings Alexa voice assistance to the Fire HD line of tablets.
• It has more RAM as compared to the older ones and starts at a lower price as well.
• It has the Fire OS 5.4 software update.
• The battery lasts for 12 hours in all.

Except all the above features the tablet has an 8-inch HD display making it attractive. The RAM is 1.5GB which is much more higher than the previous ones. The tablet is provided with both front and rear cameras with unlimited cloud storage to save photos taken in all Fire devices. Dolby Stereo speakers provide immersive high quality sound.

Features:

The 8 inch 1280×800 display with a million of pixels is the most attractive feature of the Fire HD 8 tablet. Alexa the cloud based voice service allows us to give commands to play music, deliver weather reports, launch games and a variety of options. Alexa is said to have made her debut in the Fire HD 8 tablets and is soon to be featured in Fire HD 10 in the coming months or so. The Quad-core 1.3 GHz processor and the 1.5 GB of RAM are higher than the previous generations. They provide faster performance while launching apps or even playing games. The 16GB storage can also be expanded up to 200GB of expandable storage via microSD card.

Termination:

Amazon pledged to rollout a decent digital assistance hence the Fire HD tablet which was released last year has been upgraded. The cloud based voice service, apparently known as Amazon’s assistant Alexa has made its debut with the Fire HD tablet. Commands to make calls, play music, open apps and so can be made through it. Also the battery life has been extended to 12 hours with multiple use of apps. The 50% of more RAM has enhanced the performance of the tablet. The extended storage makes it even more convenient to store a lot of data. Fire OS 5 starts with Android lollipop thus upgrading the performance. This makes it easier to bring most of the Android apps to the Amazon Appstore. All this just for $89 on a pre-order is an amazing deal.

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